Best Practices for a Healthy Heart: How to Stop Heart Disease Before or After it Starts

The heart beats more than 2,500,000,000 times over the average life-and, despite great strides in medicine, prevention is still the best way to keep your heart running strong. If you want to help your heart-and especially if you already have a cardiac diagnosis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or a family history of heart disease-Best Practices for a Healthy Heart is your complete guide to cardio care. For more than twenty years, award-winning, board-certified cardiologist Dr. Sarah Samaan has treated thousands of patients and tirelessly kept pace with the latest research-and now, she condenses her best advice into seven easy steps on how to: Take charge of your “numbers”—your weight, cholesterol, heart rate and blood pressure *Make heart-smart choices about food, exercise, and stress *Work with your doctor to design the right treatment for you *Tell which supplements and alternative therapies really help *Avoid vices that will harm your heart—and much more!