Johns Hopkins Complete Guide to Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease [Paperback]

Johns Hopkins University Press (Author), Peter M Kwiterovich Jr. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 24, 1998

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Today, with proper guidance, you can avoid, control, and even reverse cardiovascular disease. This award-winning book shows you how.
Here is all the latest news on what doctors know about heart disease and how you can prevent it--clearly explained by a top-ranking researcher from one of the world's greatest medical institutions. In this book--the 1990 winner of the prestigious Blakeslee Award for Excellence from the American Heart Association--Dr. Kwiterovich gives the most comprehensive and medically accurate information for preventing and reversing heart disease.
The Johns Hopkins Complete Guide to Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease includes:
·How to assess and reduce your risk of heart attack
·What "good" cholesterol is and how to get more of it
·The role of genetic factors (have you inherited your parent's heart disease?)
·How to prepare delicious, lowfat recipes and how to take a scientific approach to exercise
·When to have your blood triglyceride level checked
·What drugs can and cannot do
·What you must ask your doctor to ensure you are getting an accurate cholesterol count--and the best treatment
Heart disease is far too serious a condition to treat with fad diets and "feel good" books. The Johns Hopkins Complete Guide to Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease is an action plan for healthful living, starting right now.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Dr. Kwiterovich has seen things that are painful to even read about, things like young adults with orange protrusions the size of baseballs growing on their elbows because of super-high cholesterol levels. But from such experiences at the extremes, he has come to understand heart disease as few others do. The Johns Hopkins Complete Guide is indispensable for people who are at risk of early heart attack: people with high cholesterol levels, a family history of early deaths from heart disease, sedentary lives, and/or bad health habits such as smoking. Even if you have no reason to think you're in that club, you may find the chapters on diet and nutrition fascinating, especially with all the mythology circulating about the magic of fish oils (he's for eating fish, against fish-oil supplements). But if you do have heart-disease risk factors, you'll find crucial information here: not only thorough explanations of the connection between cholesterol and heart attacks, but also a cholesterol-lowering diet with recipes. --Lou Schuler

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles (June 24, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761514473
• ISBN-13: 978-0761514473
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,478,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)