Heal Your Heart with Wine and Chocolate: ...and 99 Other Ways Women Can Protect Their Hearts

by Debora Yost and Nancy Loving

This is a collection of often-surprising and totally inspiring easy-to-do tips that have been medically proven to be good for a woman's heart. It attempts to prove that making a lot of little changes can have a big impact in reducing a woman's risk of heart disease. And many of these changes are also a lot of fun. Why dwell on all the things that are bad for the heart when there are so many things women love to do that are good for the heart

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584794372
• ISBN13: 9781584794370
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Heart Patients - Give Yourself a Gift

As a heart patient and coordinator of support groups for other female heart patients, I love this book! Instead of dwelling on what we CAN'T have and what we MUST do, Debora Yost presents her 101 tips as gifts we can give to ourselves. Also, her research is sound and up-to-date, and I like the idea of incorporating one new tip into my life each week. If you have heart disease, get this book as a gift to yourself. If you know a woman with heart disease, buy it for her!

Women need to read this!

I went to Debora Yost's new book, Heal Your Heart with Wine and Chocolate, hoping to justify my passion for chocolate! What I found was so much more. This book is a true treasure chest of advice on a whole gamut of women's cardiac health issues. Women's heart disease often takes a back seat to concerns about women and cancer even though heart disease is the number one killer of women. As I read all the press about men's health issues, it is a welcome and much needed relief to hear a woman's voice speaking to women. For every woman who wants to be heart healthy, this book is a must on her book shelf.

What does a guy know about a woman's heart ...

I know a lot more now than I did before I picked up "Wine and Chocolate," and I'm glad I do. I'd planned to give the book to a girlfriend for Valentine's Day (along with the chocolate) but it disappeared from my office desk the day I bought it; and I haven't been allowed to bring it home yet. I'll have to get another copy, I guess, or wait until my co-workers are done borrowing it. But it is a wonderful little book, a difficult subject handled with a warm, caring and deft touch. This is *not* obvious information -- this is stuff that most people don't know. I recommend it without reservation ... for women everywhere, and the men who care about them.

Fantastic Reference

After I got a "moderately high" reading on my first cholesterol test a couple of months ago, I picked up Heal Your Heart with Wine and Chocolate in the course of my research and found it to be the best-written, clearest, and most honest and accessible guide to heart-healthy eating I've come into contact with so far. Whereas most advice seems to emphasize diet and deprivation, Heal Your Heart... has educated me enough to make heart-healthy choices and to change my more detrimental eating habits while still being able to enjoy food. And it's a pleasure to read!

An Excellent Health Reference

I hope every women buys this book. It not only is a good motivator to help focus on women's heart health, but it also is written in an easy to read style that provides factual information with a touch of humor. No heavy medical jargon, but once you finish reading the 101 heart healthy tips, you will have learned many ways to take care of your heart. And check out fun Tip #8 and #10 (the pluses of wine and chocolate) Catharine V.