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Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day—if you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decades of effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the heart’s perfect engineering. But, as Sian Harding shows us in The Exquisite Machine, new scientific developments are opening up the mysteries of the heart. And this explosion of new science has crucial, real-world consequences for health and well-being.

High blood pressure is one of the leading causes of disability or death due to stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney failure. After improving for a period of several years, the tables seem to have turned again. Now, even with the awareness and risks involved with this silent killer, high blood pressure continues to claim more lives and has become a serious problem. Nutrition and exercise are the keys to healthier living and Dr. Colbert explains how to make them work.

Ex·cí·to·tox·in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid.

Descubra como hábitos saudáveis como exercícios e alimentação pode ajudar a prevenir doenças cardíacas. Doença cardíaca é um termo amplo e, de acordo com o cardiologista Dr. Luiz Antonio Campos, inclui várias doenças cardíacas e vasculares. "Existem diversos fatores de risco para doenças cardiovasculares, os quais podem ser divididos em imutáveis e mutáveis", explica o profissional.

In his new book, The Simple Heart Cure, you'll find this top doc's groundbreaking approach to preventing and reversing heart disease - an approach honed by his study of foreign cultures free of heart disease and decades of experience helping patients achieve a healthier heart at any age. Dr. Crandall is living proof of his program's success.

In this audiobook, you'll learn everything you need to know to successfully prepare your ketogenic meals in advance without losing all the benefits of the keto diet. You'll discover how to combine the keto diet with meal prep to finally say good-bye to wasted money, time, and effort on unnecessary shopping trips and forgotten, rotten food in the back of your fridge.

Heart disease is the number-one cause of death in the United States - and the world. Every 40 seconds, one American dies from cardiovascular disease, which claims more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Yet most of us are only vaguely familiar with the amazing organ inside our chests that sends 2000 gallons of blood throughout our bodies every single day.

Nine million Americans are touched by aneurysms during their lifetimes. This is one story of love. Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery. It is a journey of love and devotion and a clash of medical beliefs and countercultures.

DASH diet - Best Diet Overall ranking for eight years in a row (2011-2018) by the panel of experts assembled by US News & World Report. To receive top ratings a diet must be easy to follow, nutritious, safe, effective for weight loss, and protective against chronic diseases. Which means you can get healthier and lose weight without going hungry or totally eliminating your favorite food groups for the rest of your life.

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most commonly diagnosed birth abnormality in the US. Little attention, however, has been paid to the psychosocial impacts on these individuals. Liza Morton and Tracy Livecchi are both mental health professionals who have developed a specialty in working with clients who have chronic medical conditions, and they are both themselves living with CHD. While their powerful personal stories are woven into the narrative, the book is focused on providing evidence-based coping and self-care skills for adults living with CHD.

Heart and circulatory diseases cause a quarter of all deaths in the UK, that’s more than 170,000 deaths each year–an average of 480 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.

This book is part of a three-book diet series where I take a research-based approach and explore the ins and outs of three popular diets. In my first book, I have talked about the ketogenic diet and my research, which validates that it's one of the best low carb diets to lose weight provided that you follow it carefully and with devotion. In this book, I discuss the Mediterranean diet, its benefits, and how it can help steer you towards a healthy lifestyle.

Whether you want to (1) prevent heart disease, (2) learn how to treat various heart ailments, or (3) gain all the benefits of a healthy heart, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know.

Are you tired of living with high blood pressure and feeling like it has taken over your life? It's time to take control, and fix the problem, once and for all. Living with high blood pressure is a daunting task. It feels like you're always walking a tightrope, constantly worrying about the risks of complications and struggling to find the right medications and lifestyle changes that work for you.

Cardiovascular health assumes a paramount and extraordinary significance in our overall well-being and the quality of our existence. The cardiovascular system, comprising the heart, blood vessels, and blood, assumes a pivotal and indispensable role in the transportation of vital oxygen, essential nutrients, and crucial hormones to every cell in our body, while simultaneously eliminating harmful waste products. Let us delve deeper into the multifaceted and compelling reasons that underscore the criticality of prioritizing cardiovascular health:

An estimated 1.28 billion adults worldwide have hypertension. And about half don't even know they have it. That's because high blood pressure develops with no signs or symptoms...until it has caused serious damage. Mayo Clinic on High Blood Pressure offers information and tools to help you keep blood pressure from building to dangerous levels. By taking specific steps, you can live well with high blood pressure—and even keep it from ever forming. In this book, Gary Schwartz, M.D., tells you how.

Don't let a diagnosis of high cholesterol scare you. This easy-to-understand book uncovers a dynamically unique strategy for gaining control and living in vibrant, divine health naturally. Reclaim God's very best for you and get ready to win!

Introducing "AyurPedia: Ayurvedic Pathways to Wellness - Heart-Healthy Living," your comprehensive guide to achieving heart wellness through the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda. Crafted by Dr. Raj Chopra, a leading expert in Ayurvedic medicine, this book is a holistic approach to managing and improving your cardiovascular health. Do you find yourself stressed about the ticking time bomb that heart-related issues could be? Are you tired of complicated and conflicting advice on heart care?

At the southernmost prefecture of Japan lives a population who treats centenarians as if they are ordinary beings and are not walking miracles. And why shouldn't they when they live in a place where aging past 80 or even a hundred years isn't a miracle but is an inevitability? People all over the world have been trying to find out a way to live as long. Their conclusions? Okinawans have been forced to feed on specific food types for the whole of their lives. Why? Because of how they live: isolated in the fertile Ryukyu Islands.

A decade after World War II, there was still no such thing as open-heart surgery, and yet half a million Americans were dying from heart disease every year. After the first daring operation in 1954 and through the next three decades, five heroic surgeons braved the scorn of their peers, withstood fierce desperation, and faced possible death in order to devise procedures that would save overwhelming numbers of those doomed children and provide hope for a new life to all manner of heart-failing individuals.