SAY NO TO HEART DISEASE
A drug-free guide to preventing and fighting heart disease
If you are concerned about your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, or your chances of having a heart attack or stroke, Say NO to Heart Disease will be invaluable to you. Cardiovascular and arterial diseases are some of the most devastating diseases. In almost all cases, however, they are preventable if one simple but very powerful medicine is resorted to - food. You'll easily learn how to eat healthy and supplement your diet properly to prevent heart attacks, lower your blood pressure without medication, stop arterial disease, and maximize your recovery after a stroke or heart attack, thus adding to many more fulfilling years of your life.
Based on scientific research, this informative and practical book describes the cardiovascular system and contains all the information you need on diet, supplementation, exercise and stress reduction to enable you to develop a heart-healthy action plan that works for you . It presents the main factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease. It explains how to calculate your own risk and which areas of your diet and lifestyle to focus on to minimize it.
Discover Holford's invaluable tips:
– how to avoid the risk of heart attack or stroke;
– how to lower cholesterol and blood pressure without drugs;
– how to prevent and stop arterial diseases and injuries;
– how to recover as much as possible after a heart attack or stroke;
– how to make natural but life-saving lifestyle changes.
About the author:
Patrick Holford is one of the UK's leading nutrition experts, widely quoted in the media. He is the founder of the Institute of Rational Nutrition in London. Specializing in the field of mental health, he is the author of more than 30 books, translated into more than 20 languages and sold in millions of copies worldwide, including "The Optimum Nutrition Bible" and "Optimal Nutrition for the mind" (Optimum Nutrition for the Mind). Patrick Holford began his academic career in psychology. Holford was one of the early promoters and promoters of the importance of zinc, antioxidants, essential fats, a low-glycemic diet, and homocysteine-lowering B vitamins such as folic acid. He is the executive director of the Food for the Brain Foundation and its therapeutic center Brain Bio Center. He is also an honorary member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and a member of the Council for Nutritional Therapy.
“Patrick Holford is among the leading authorities on new approaches to health and nutrition. "
Daily Mail
CONTENTS:
Abbreviations and units of measurement
Introduction
PART I
The dynamics of heart disease
Chapter 1: Check out the main risk factors for your heart health
Chapter 2: How to interpret blood pressure and pulse
Chapter 3: How to interpret blood - cholesterol and triglycerides
Chapter 4: The Cholesterol and Fat Myth
Chapter 5: Definition of heart disease and interpretation of the diagnosis
Chapter 6: The truth about cardiovascular drugs
PART II
Ten Keys to Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
Chapter 7: Why you need omega-3 fats and vitamin D
Chapter 8: The sugar factor and why you need to maintain a healthy insulin level
Chapter 9: Why stress really matters
Chapter 10: Do you have high homocysteine?
Chapter 11: Lipoprotein(s), niacin and vitamin C
Chapter 12: Antioxidant protection - why you need more than vitamin E
Chapter 13: Increase magnesium and potassium and decrease sodium
Chapter 14: Are your arteries inflamed?
Chapter 15: Exercise in the heart healthy equation
Chapter 16: It matters what you drink
PART III
Quick recovery strategies, friends of the heart
Chapter 17: How to lower cholesterol without drugs
Chapter 18: How to lower blood pressure naturally
Chapter 19: Angina relief and heart attack recovery
Chapter 20: How to maximize your recovery after a stroke
PART IV
Heart Support Action Plan
Chapter 21: Diet, friend of the heart
Chapter 22: Indispensable nutritional supplements
Chapter 23: How to train the heart
Chapter 24: How to live without stress
Application 1
GT index of hundreds of foods
Application 2
Customize your GT
Recommended literature
References and Internet sources
