Smart at Heart - A Holistic 10 Step Approach to Preventing and Healing Heart Disease

Zusatztext “If improving your general health and longevity is on your to-do list! this book is for you. Dr. Wood shares cutting-edge research! personal anecdotes! and inspirational patient stories in a heartfelt guide that will touch your heart and improve your health.” --Marie Pasinski! MD! author of Beautiful Brain! Beautiful You   “Smart at Heart is a wonderful combination of up-to-date medical information and realistic advice! all from a cardiologist who manages to be humble! sensible! and caring. Any woman who wonders how she can improve her heart health should read it.” --Alice Domar! PhD! director of Domar Center for Mind/Body Health! coauthor of Live a Little Informationen zum Autor MALISSA WOOD! MD! is the codirector of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She sits on the board of the Northeast affiliate of the American Heart Association. DIMITY McDOWELL! a health and fitness writer! has been a contributing editor at Shape and Women’s Health . She is the coauthor of Run Like a Mother . Visit drmalissawood.blogspot.com. Klappentext A breakthrough mind-body program to build a strong! healthy! and happy heart! for women at risk for or diagnosed with heart disease! from the Harvard-trained cardiologist behind the Women's Heart Health Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Heart disease is the number-one killer of American women! and prevention and healing require integrative approaches to address the whole heart--physical! emotional! and spiritual. "Smart at Heart"'s holistic program includes strategies to improve heart health by addressing ten bridges that link the physical and emotional hearts! including the mental health! relationship! and communication bridges. This book guides readers through evaluating their current state of physical and emotional health and then empowers them with solutions to strengthen each bridge to create a healthy! whole heart. chapter one   Smart at Heart   It’s a Monday night, a few weeks before Christmas. Around 5:30, thirteen women file into a conference room at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Revere Health Center in Revere, Massachusetts. Some grab a clementine from a table of healthy snacks, while others peel off the layers they’d been wearing to protect themselves from the bitter wind coming off the Atlantic Ocean one hundred yards away. Of the thirteen, nine are participants in HAPPY Heart, a two-year-old program that integrates all the facets of a woman’s life (including, among other things, physical health, emotional well-being, stress levels, and relationships) to minimize her cardiac-related issues. Three of the women are nurses (or health coaches, in HAPPY-Heart speak) and one is a daughter of a participant. As the group begins to settle into seats around the table, Isabel, one HAPPY Hearter, announces that she’s going to gather clothes for the homeless in the next week and pass them out and is looking for donations of any size. Another participant, Jenny, mentions that her daughter is taking finals, and that those tests have the whole house stressed out. A third subject, Kim, has an ankle that’s hurting, and Donna Peltier-Saxe, one of the health coaches, promises to take a look at it later.   Donna Slicis, another health coach, sets up her computer, and the first PowerPoint slide shows on a screen. “Family: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” it reads, “Holiday survival!” After a few introductory remarks, Slicis, who has a great sense of humor and an even bigger sense of compassion, shows a YouTube video, which is called “Family Survival Kit.” The infomercial parody “sells” such helpful items as criticism-canceling headphones and Dr. Phil in a can. (“You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge,” the bald doc preaches from within the aluminum walls.) Laughter and nods of, “So ...

Product details

• Authors: Dimity McDowell, Malissa Wood, Malissa Dr Wood
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.12.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9781587612787
• ISBN: 978-1-58761-278-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Guides > Health > Illnesses, therapies