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  • Women's Heart Health
    The widespread belief that heart disease is exclusively a man's problem is a myth. Women--and most physicians--are not aware that cardiovascular disease is the number one-killer of women as well as men.
  • Physical Activity: The Great Health Facilitator
    How even a moderate amount of physical activity, such as walking, can significantly improve health.
  • When Studies Mislead: The Skinny on Low Fat Diets
    The recent, well-publicized government study claiming that a low-fat diet does not cut health risk was flawed and its conclusions are dangerously misleading.
  • Our Genes are Not Our Fate
    While genes are undeniably important factors in causing disease, their role has been vastly overemphasized. For most common diseases, such as cancer and atherosclerosis, genes are predispositions, not inevitabilities.
  • The New Mind-Body Paradigm
    Life-threatening illness is more than a crisis of the body; it is a crisis of the soul.
  • Of Death, Dying and the Possibility of a Hereafter
    Discussion by a cardiologist of how both he and a dying patient had a spiritual experience which convinced him that death is a transition, not an ending.
  • Genes and the Mind
    People with a strong will to live understand that when they take life-enhancing measures, their health and longevity will be favorable affected, regardless of their genes. They take responsibility for their lives instead of being victims of events. Each and every one of us has the resources within to affect our health and longevity.
  • The Skinny on the Metabolic Syndrome: Cutting the Fat
    "Metabolic Syndrome" is the combination of abdominal obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and a particularly malignant form of high LDL ("bad") cholesterol. The author gives practical weight loss advice (NOT involving dieting) to combat it.
  • How to Empower People with a Serious Illness
    A serious illness need not be a death sentence. The right attitude, and the cooperation of friends, family, and physicians, can often mean the difference between life and death.
  • The Stop Dieting Diet: Forget Everything You've Read
    Simple, easy-to-follow, practical advice for losing weight and keeping it off.
  • From Stress to Serenity: Practical Tips That Really Work
    Stress is defined, it's effects and costs discussed, and techniques to reduce and prevent it are offered.

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