A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health and Longevity (Paperback)

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Escape the Silent Killers Stalking You

Most women don't know that breast cancer isn't their worst enemy. Two silent stalkers, heart disease and stroke, kill two of every five women, largely due to our speed-obsessed, stressed, unhealthy lifestyles. Every minute, we lose one woman to heart disease or stroke in the US, and two-thirds of them had no prior symptoms. It's happening to younger and younger women—women in their forties, thirties, even twenties.

Why are we losing this battle? Because women have different symptoms from men—subtle, easily-overlooked symptoms—that many women, and their doctors, don’t know. A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life empowers women to take control of their life and health.

Mellanie True Hills, author of A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life, almost died in emergency heart surgery. She didn’t even have the traditional heart attack risk factors—she was simply overweight and overstressed, just like many women today. As a high-tech road warrior with an extreme job and an "always-on" lifestyle, she almost died from stress. Shockingly, more than half of all executives will die from stress-related illnesses. Many women are headed for this same train wreck, but the secrets that saved Mellanie could save them, too.

Knowing what to do can save your life! This guidebook helps you recognize the blinking red warning lights of your health and evade these silent killers at any age. This approachable, easy-to-read book provides explanations, tools, assessments, and five easily-implemented steps to:

• Identify and control your risks, including lifestyle, and create a plan you can actually stick to
• Lose weight easily...Mellanie lost 85 pounds with these secrets
• Find out why working women have more stress and how they can avoid it killing them
• Help your doctor give you the treatment and tests you deserve
• Recognize that women have different symptoms—-knowing the difference can save your life
• Share with men in your life what they need to know

The HEART Program in A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life has saved countless lives and could save yours, too!

About the Author
Mellanie is a heart survivor who had a brush with death in emergency heart surgery. As the author of A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health & Longevity, she now provides a message of inspiration, hope, and encouragement that causes women to say, "You saved my life."

As The Health & Productivity Revitalizer®, she works with individuals and organizations to create health and productivity, and executives say, "She creates business results."

Mellanie was also an Internet pioneer at J.C. Penney Company, Inc., over a decade ago, where she led the creation of one of the early corporate web sites, as well as an intranet and supplier extranet. At Dell Inc., she was the executive in charge of creating and executing Dell’s intranet vision and strategy. At Cisco Systems, Inc., she was an e-Business Strategy Thought Leader in Cisco’s Global High-Tech Internet Business Solutions Practice, where she served as a Trusted Advisor to top executives of some of Cisco’s largest high tech customers.

As a renowned Internet visionary, she is the author of two intranet and groupware best-sellers, Intranet Business Strategies and Intranet as Groupware, published by John Wiley & Sons, and wrote for numerous business and technology publications. She addressed audiences of hundreds and thousands at some of the earliest Internet events, in locations as diverse as Montreal, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, and New Delhi.

In addition to being a wife and mother, Mellanie is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association for Williamson County and speaks and does media appearance on their behalf to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke. She is also Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Leadership Texas Alumnae Association, and a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), Women in Technology International (WITI), and Mended Hearts.

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6 Reviews 5 star:  (5) 4 star:  (1) 3 star:    (0) 2 star:    (0) 1 star:    (0)           Average Customer Review 4.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)		Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Educational, well-organized, required reading, June 25, 2005 By  Harold McFarland (Florida) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)       Many women are surprised to find that heart disease kills more women each year than breast cancer. Another surprise is the fact that each year heart disease kills more women than men. When Mellanie True Hills had a close call with a coronary artery 95% blocked and nearing a heart attack she decided to do something about her situation. How she saved her life and changed the heart disease scenario is what this book is about. The author provides extensive educational material on risk factors and what to do about them. She also includes an excellent section on heart attack and stroke symptoms and how the symptoms of a man and of a woman may be quite different as well as how it is diagnosed and why it is often harder to diagnose in women than men. After discussing how she was able to change her health she provides a how-to guide on developing your own plan to stave off or recover from heart disease. The book ends with an appendix containing multiple forms you can use to help develop your plan. This is an excellent resource full of information covering the complete spectrum of heart disease. While it is written for women and has a lot of information specific to women, the method of developing a plan that you can use to ward off heart disease is useful for everyone. As such, A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life is a recommended read for everyone. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars This book can save your life, April 10, 2006 By  Reader Views "www.readerviews.com" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (4/06) Coming from a family with a long history of heart disease you'd think I'd jump at the chance to read something that can help me. I wasn't all that thrilled. I kept telling myself, oh come on, I'm fine. Heart like a mule. I'm not really at risk. Who cares that family history, being overweight and not eating properly are my biggest factors... I can ignore them. But can I? Reading this book truly could save your life. I'm one to ignore the bad things in life. I figure if I don't acknowledge it, it goes away. Unfortunately that's not true. I've learned that through many trials and tribulations. This book enhances the fact. Mellanie is a heart surgery survivor. What makes her story somewhat different is that she's not a 'typical' heart disease candidate. She had hidden risks, which many of us can have and probably do have along with a few obvious factors that she ignored. This book will walk with you, step by step and show you what you can do, what to look for and how to prevent being like Mellanie - an emergency heart surgery patient. Heart disease actually kills more women then men, yet all the most books and media stress heart disease in men. Mellanie is on the forefront of changing this, thankfully. Nearly 1,400 women die every day from heart disease. That's 10 times more than breast cancer and 5 times more than all cancers combined. Yet we still remain oblivious for the most part. We have rallies and walks for breast cancer. How many times have you seen the pink ribbons out there for various fundraisers? What have you seen for Women's Heart Disease? Can you even say what the "promotional gimmick" is for women's heart disease? My guess is no. In case you wonder, it's a red dress. The book begins by sharing Mellanie's story. It's fairly frightening to read as she's not a typical candidate and if you were to think long and hard many of us are typical candidates. If SHE could have this happen, what are OUR chances as high risk? If SHE could have this happen, what are our chances even as low risk? Are you truly low risk? Her book helps you find out. She breaks the book up in sections - Sharing risk factors, stories of heart disease and most of all a wonderful area to begin your plan to change your lifestyle and risk factor. The book is made as a workbook. Take the time to write down your thoughts, ideas and most of all your goals. Mellanie encourages a proactive approach. She doesn't try to scare you into suddenly changing. Jumping off the bridge quickly only leads to landing hard. Instead she gives you a realistic approach to take daily. She doesn't want to scare you into changing; she wants to show you the benefits. I really would highly recommend this book to every woman out there. It's not something we tend to think about, talk about or even read about. Change that. Make the changes Mellanie gives you and take that proactive approach to NOT becoming a statistic. It's well worth the price to save your life. When you put the cards on the table, there's a choice that can be made and you can make it. Have the chance of dying before your time or take the road to freedom and change your life for you and your family. You are worth it and I'm certain your family would agree. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars A 'must' for any woman concerned about heart health, May 26, 2006 By  Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews The price tag is hefty for a standard-sized 8.5x11 paperback workbook, but any concerned about women's health and heart disease must take a look. It identifies the different risk factors and symptoms involved in women's heart health, packs in tips on how to lose weight (tested tips: the author lost 85 pounds with these secrets), and reveals how to get the tests and treatments unique to the female body. Charts and case histories appear in boxed, easily-noted pages of detail which succeed in breaking up test and enhancing visuals. A 'must' for any woman concerned about heart health. Diane C. Donovan, Editor California Bookwatch Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 6 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars Every Woman Should Read This Book! For 20 years now, heart disease has killed more women each year than men. Statistically, 40 percent of women will have a cardiovascular problem in her lifetime, and heart disease... Read more Published 13 months ago by Lynda Lippin 5.0 out of 5 stars You Need THis Book! A Woman's Guide To Saving Her Own Life by Mellanie True Hills is one EVERY woman must read and take "to heart." It is Mellanie's story of nearly dying of heart disease. Read more Published on May 18, 2007 by Bonnie Neely 4.0 out of 5 stars Life-saving information every woman should know about! Forty percent of women die of heart disease and stroke--more than ten times the number of women who die from breast cancer--according to Mellanie True Hills in her book, A Woman's... 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