Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart

Protect your heart naturally Once considered a "man's disease," heart disease kills 500,000 women each year. Today's women are not only as stressed and as overweight as men, they also "feel" more deeply than men--depression, anger, and sadness can have very physical effects on a woman's heart. A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart explores the role of emotions on your cardiovascular health and shows you how to start making natural changes to help you live a fuller, healthier life. A must-have "owner's manual" for all women, A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart helps you work through your distinctly feminine emotional issues as well as your medical concerns. It shows you how a more positive, uplifting attitude will go a long way towards a healthier life. Full of heart-sensible advice, A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart covers: Safe weight-loss tips Simple ways to get heart-healthy exercise into your day Supplements to take and supplements to avoid--is CoQ10 for you? The benefits of common foods such as garlic, green and black tea, and soy, as well as less-known herbs such as ginkgo, Asian ginseng, and chasteberry Carol Simontacchi is a certified clinical nutritionist and the author of a number of books on health and nutrition, including Your Fat Is Not Your Fault and The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children. She is the designer and author of the holistic weight and health management program called Wings: Weight Success for a Lifetime (www.flywithwings.com). Frances E. FitzGerald writes articles for Taste for Life and HealthSmart magazines and teaches college writing classes. She is the coauthor of Winning at Weight Loss: Achieve Healthy, Permanent Results.Simontacchi, Carol is the author of 'Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart', published 2003 under ISBN 9780658021589 and ISBN 0658021583.