Heart Fitness for Life: The Essential Guide for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease

by Mary P. McGowan and J. McGowan Chopra

Book Overview

Cardiac disease is the number one cause of death among adult Americans: each year, 478,000 individuals die of coronary artery disease, 1.5 million suffer a heart attack, 407,000 undergo bypass surgery, and 300,000 receive angioplasty. Most of us have read about the risk factors--simply being a man over the age of 45 or a woman who has gone through menopause makes one more likely to suffer from coronary artery disease, as do a family history of cardiac...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195116240
• ISBN13: 9780195116243
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Living with your heart and mind

This book is one of the best cardiology books i have ever read.It contains good ,sound medical advice in a comprehensive easy-to-read style.It is definitely a must-read for anyone with heart troubles..big or small.

This 1997 resource is invaluable for the inquiring heart..

Heart Fitness for Life's content is much broader than the title indicates. It addresses many basic issues and goes into enough detail to answer questions/concerns from patients and releatives.After having reviewed and read 18 or more books on heart disease, I can say with confidence that McGowan's book is the best without qualification. Heart books date very quickly but Heart Fitness addressed Homocystein issue and genes in concise style that was easy to understand.My only suggestion for the next edition would be to address the "stress" as one of the signficant risk factors. Saplosky's, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" is a useful update on stress related disease and the linkag to our hearts.Dr. Ornish's and Dr. MacDougal's books would make positive companion's to this book and are worth considering. I strongly recommend McGowan's not as the "first" comprehenisive approach to her topic but as the "most current" on the every changing field of caridology.

A guide to controlling or reversing heart disease.

This one of the only books which lives up to the promotion of itself on the cover. It covers the spectrum of treatments for coronary artery disease. It is written in a very interseting and readable form. This is a terrific resource for patients. It offers hope and means to overcome the number killer in the U.S.