Total Heart Health: How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease with the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health (Paperback)

by Robert H. Schneider (Author), Jeremy Z. Fields (Author)
Key Phrases: total heart health, predominant dosha type, own inner intelligence, Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Vedic Approach, Body Approach (more...)

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Product Description
If you or someone you know suffers from heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, stress, or any other cardiac risk factor, "Total Heart Health" is for you. Presented here for the first time in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow format is a scientifically proven, side effect-free approach to prevent and treat cardiovascular disese based on the world's oldest, most complete, scientific system of natural medicine. Modern heart disease drugs and surgery can be dangerous and ineffective-often with harmful side effects. In contrast, the "Total Heart Health" program is a safe, successful, and easy-to-use alternative to this dilemma. The "Total Heart Health" program is based on the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health and has been used by hundreds of thousands of people. It achieves dramatic results through such simple, naural approaches as stress-reducing meditation; diet, herbal supplements, and exercise according to your individual mind-body type; a healthy environment, sound therapy, and many more. And all of these methods are designed to enliven the body's healing intelligence-your own inner healer.

Here you will find the convincing results of more than twenty years of scientific research and clinical experience, which demonstrate that the "Total Heart Health" program slows or reverses heart disease, hypertension, stress, and other risk factors. But more than that, the people using this approach have enjoyed longer, healthier, and happier lives. This book is a "must read" for scientifically validated, natural approaches to preventing or reversing heart disease.

About the Author
Robert H. Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C., is a physician, scientist, educator, and one of the world's leading authorities on natural medicine and its scientific use in the prevention and treatment of heart disease. Over the past twenty years, he has directed nearly $20 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his pioneering research on natural approaches to heart disease. The results of this groundbreaking research have been published in more than 100 articles in authoritative medical journals and proceedings, and featured in more than 1,000 television, radio, magazine, and newspaper reprots, including ABC's "20/20," "CNN Headline News," "Fox News," the "New York Times," "Washington Post," "Newsweek," "Wall Street Journal," and "Time" magazine.

Coauthor Jeremy Z. Fields, Ph.D., has thirty years of scientific experience conducting NIH- and VA-funded medical research. He is also a veteran science writer and editor.

Product Details

• Paperback: 262 pages
• Publisher: Basic Health Publications; 1st edition (April 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591200873
• ISBN-13: 978-1591200871
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #435,927 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Unusually Broad Approach to a Healthy Heart, July 3, 2006

By	J. Karpen (Fairfield, IA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The scope of this book is remarkable. Thanks to Dean Ornish and others, many people now understand that lifestyle choices are very important in maintaining a healthy heart and can play a role in treating heart disease. Dr. Schneider goes further. His approach includes meditation, Vedic sounds, architecture, Vedic Astrology, and more.

And in his chapters about lifestyle choices, Dr. Schneider gets unusually specific. He talks about the ayurvedic concept of body types. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to diet, for example, he explains that the best diet for a person depends on his or her body type. He explains that obesity -- a major risk factor for heart disease -- can be caused by different kinds of imbalances in the physiology depending on body type. And therefore the treatment of obesity must match the type of imbalance in the individual. He helps readers identify their body type and gives considerable detail in regard to the types of foods they should favor or avoid according to body type.

Overall, he sees the body as a sort of fine-tuned instrument. He explains how it can get out of tune and a range of ways to fix it, to fix the imbalances that crop up and cause disease. Further, he understands that this finely tuned instrument isn't isolated but has an intimate connection with the universe. And he even discusses techniques such as Vedic Astrology to help understand and treat imbalances in the physiology.

He undergirds each of the approaches he describes with a scientist's analysis of how it works.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Right On The Mark, December 26, 2006

By	Martin Zucker (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In this pill popping and cholesterol obsessed age of ours, here is a timely book showing how defusing stress with meditation and other time tested techniques prevent and heal heart problems. I know this approach works. Years ago, my doctor wanted to put me on medication for high blood pressure. Wary of side effects, I looked for something natural and found Transcendental Meditation. Within a month or two, my pressure had normalized, and has stayed normal for 30 years with continued regular meditation. At a recent checkup, my blood pressure read 120/60. Not bad for a kid, let alone a 69 year old.
The fact is that stress causes or aggravates a lot of the chronic health problems that our medical system has little success treating. The book rolls out an impressive volume of scientific studies to support how simple methods from an ancient tradition has significant medical relevance in the 21st century. The meditation technique is so valid, in fact, that the National Institutes of Health continues to fund ongoing research, as the authors indicate.
The power of the techniques described in this book goes way beyond heart health, to happiness, relationships, productivity, and quality of life. If more people practiced these techniques, instead of popping pills, the collective health of this country would surely rise from its present sorry state, and health care costs wouldn't take such a massive bite out of the American economy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An "inside-out" approach to the prevention and reversal of heart disease, January 25, 2007

By	Steven Schneider (McAllen, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Total Heart Health presents an "inside-out" approach to the prevention and reversal of heart disease. The authors, a leading scientific pioneer in the field of complementary and alternative medicine, Robert H. Schneider, M.D. and health writer, Jeremy Z. Fields, Ph.D., present a compelling argument for "awakening the body's inner intelligence" to prevent and combat heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.

Total Heart Health, according to the authors, is only possible when mind, body, and environment are all treated as one interconnected system. Part One of their book focuses on the Mind Approach - Transcendental Meditation (T.M.) - the cornerstone of the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health, the health care system Schneider and Fields subscribe to. They present ample scientific evidence to show that T.M. reduces stress, hypertension, and results in a number of other heart-related health benefits.

If Transcendental Meditation is the "inside" approach to health because of its emphasis on meditation, then Parts II and III of Total Heart Health present the "outside" approach - focusing respectively on the body and the environment. The authors present lots of good tips on exercise and diet suitable for different body types in Part II, and in Part III discuss the advantages of living in a healthy home designed according to the principles of "Vedic Architecture." The authors then reach for the stars in a discussion of "Vedic Astrology" and present imaginative diagrams on how different parts of the body may be correlated with the solar system.

This book then ranges from the unified field of consciousness to the very heavens themselves. It is a lovely combination of practical advice, scientifically validated research on a unique system of health care shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, and imaginatively engaging in its discussion of "cosmic counterparts." It belongs on any book shelf because of its unique contribution to Wellness in an age riddled by disease.