The Healthy Heart for Dummies

by James M. Rippe

The Healthy Heart For Dummies explores that most vital organ -- the heart -- and explains why you need to care for it. This book also helps you design a personal lifestyle based on proper nutrition, physical activity, weight management, and mind/body connections to both prevent and control heart disease. It includes a section describing the latest tests and procedures used in evaluating heart health and problems, which help you make decisions on treatment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076455199X
• ISBN13: 9780764551994
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Friendly, conversational, easy to read!

Dr. Rippe's Healthy Heart For Dummies gives you everything you need to understand heart disease, and take steps to prevent or control it in your own life. Covers everything from anatomy to lifestyle choices to tests and procedures...all in a warm, friendly, conversational tone. You feel empowered to take control of your own life and health. Takes all the work out of learning about a scary subject. This is the only thing you need to read and reference when it comes to understanding and handling heart disease in your family.