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Living with diabetes can feel like walking a tightrope. One misstep and you can come crashing down, facing a range of life-threatening complications. From the constant monitoring of blood sugar levels to the pressure of making healthy food choices and losing weight, diabetes can feel overwhelming. With the right guidance and support, diabetes management can be a well-choreographed dance. By making healthy choices and staying on top of your care, living with diabetes doesn’t have to get in the way of your life.

Vision Zero: Eine Welt ohne Krebs Eine Zeitenwende bahnt sich an – seit Menschengedenken gilt Krebs als unbesiegbare Krankheit. Der Befund bedeutete für unzählige Menschen Angst, Schmerz und meist auch Tod. Doch bahnbrechende Forschungserkenntnisse der letzten Jahre läuten das Ende dieser...

The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be...

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.

It sounds like the start of a bad joke… or perhaps a confusingly awesome dream. A Physical Therapist, ex-collegiate track athlete, Ivy league grad, Youth Pastor, and some dude with a PhD start having a conversation about cholesterol. And then you realize all those guys are THE SAME GUY, and that guy takes you on a whimsical pilgrimage that results in YOU having a framework for NOT having heart attacks, strokes, and dementia.

At the relatively young age of 49, I was told I had a rather dangerous situation with my heart that needed fixing sooner than later. I had both an aortic aneurysm and a damaged aortic valve. It was a ticking time bomb in my chest and only a matter of time. My only viable option was to undergo the most invasive and riskiest of procedures – open-heart surgery.

The vegan diet saves lives. This audiobook shows you how to become a vegan and why it will optimize your weight, looks, and energy.

One of the world's best-selling authors and the pioneering teacher of the benefits of mind body medicine focuses on America's number one health problem: coronary artery disease. Millions of Americans suffer from coronary artery disease or have a loved one who does. Despite...

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.

Hope After Stroke is like having a personal therapist at your side, simplifying the medical jargon, answering your questions, guiding and empowering you each step of the way. You’ll discover practical tools and strategies you can use in the hospital, when you come home, and upon re-entering your community and workplace. This easy-to-follow, evidence-based resource guide puts all the most important information in one place. It will help you understand what to expect, what to look out for, and what "stroke thrivers" do to recover. 

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.

What if we could plan not to have a heart attack? As a cardiologist, I have not yet met a patient who expected to have a problem. Yet, what if we could be forewarned about, or prepared for, a potential problem with our coronary arteries? What if we were able to put in place preventative measures that may avert a problem?

It is my intention, through the chapters of this audiobook, to inform listeners who experience these common but most-often benign palpitations, with facts, that can help them to better-cope with the concerning symptoms they may experience with these strange heartbeats.

Coronary heart disease remains the single biggest killer of women worldwide, yet it is still not seen as a woman's problem. Every day the female heart patient is measured by male standards, which leads to confusion, unclear diagnosis and often the wrong treatment.

This book is part tragedy, part success story, and part lab note-book documenting the psychological activity during a roller coaster of physical and mental transitions. After bouncing from one extreme to the other in numerous facets of life, Axe finds himself learning to cope with his pending death. He survives humble and weak but still alive. As his health slowly returns, he captures observations, thoughts, and memories that help him to understand the world and people around him.

面对体检报告上居高不下的低密度脂蛋白指标，你无需陷入健康焦虑，用科学的日常营养干预就能稳妥逆转危机。告别令人心生畏惧的极端节食和似是而非的速成偏方，这里有一套专为忙碌现代人打造的无压力健康指南。无论...

حوّل لياليك المليئة بالإرهاق إلى نوم عميق ومتجدد عبر دليل طبي وعملي يعالج جذور الشخير ويحمي صحة قلبك. بدلا من الشعور المستمر بالإحراج أو العجز بسبب الأصوات...

夜间如雷的鼾声绝不仅仅是扰人清梦的噪音，它更可能是睡眠呼吸暂停发出的危险警报，正悄无声息地吞噬着你的心血管健康与日间精力。如果你或伴侣正饱受白天困倦、记忆力衰退或血压波动的折磨，这说明身体的缺氧危机...

当体检报告上的血脂指标亮起红灯，用科学的心血管风险管理打破对心梗与他汀类药物的未知恐惧，立刻夺回健康主导权。拒绝毫无根据的健康焦虑，摒弃极端无效的养生偏方，这份硬核而贴心的医学指南将带你看透心血管疾...