What Your Dr...Heart Disease - The Revolutionary Book that Reveals the Truth Behind Coronary Illnesses - and How You Can Fight Them

Coronary heart disease has long been the number one killer in the West and for decades, we have been told about five basic risk factors: elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and smoking. But the truth is that heart disease is much more complex-- with close to 400 risk factors!
In this innovative guide, Dr. Mark Houston helps readers discover the causes of heart disease, how to prevent and treat its debilitating effects via nutrition, nutritional supplements, exercise and weight management and lays to rest to various myths (cholesterol is not the primary cause) based on scientific studies and medical publications.
Readers will also learn how to indentify the risk factors most likely to endager them and construct an arsenal of non-pharmacological preventitive strategies that can counteract this most deadly disease.

About the author

Dr. Mark Houston is presently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Director of the Hypertension Institute, Vascular Biology, and the Life Extension Institute at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN.

Summary

A groundbreaking program that reveals what really causes heart disease - and what can be done to prevent and treat its devastating effects on long-term health.

Product details

• Authors: Mark C Houston, Mark Houston, Mark C. Houston, MD Mark C. Houston
• Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2012
• EAN: 9781609412548
• ISBN: 978-1-60941-254-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 202 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 246 g
• Series: What Your Doctor May Not Tell; What Your Doctor May Not Tell
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Cardiology, Consumer Health, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Heart, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Heart