From America's most trusted cardiologist, here's the life-saving information that every woman needs to know.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
good information:
I think this is a great resource for women and worth reading. Good background information about heart disease in women as well as how to prevent it and what you can do about it. Good nutritional advice and sound habits to get in to. Beware to have the latest information that books sometimes lack.
women need to read this book:
All women - and anyone who knows and loves a woman who might have cardiovascular disease - should read this book. The information is clear and easy to follow. There is a lot of information, but you can glean a lot of useful tips and helpful advice without studying every word. The great part of this book is that there is a recipe for treating and preventing this disease that really works. According to statistics from this book and others:
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the largest single cause of... more info
Very boring, reads like a textbook.:
I found this book to be very boring. I bought it because I had seen it referanced in a lot of magazine articles. It may be good for looking up useful information on heart disease, but not really a preventative book. The diet recommended in this book is unrealistic to me and seems like a diet that would be recommended to a person who was diagnosed with heart disease and had to change their lifestyle.
Informative but hard to keep reading:
I bought this book because I had seen a lot of people referance from it in magazine articles so I assumed it would be very informative. While it is informative it is very much like reading a text book for me. I have had to read it in small portions at a time because so much information at one time gets pretty boring. I find myself taking notes while I read it so that I can remember key points that I felt were important. The "Mediterranean" diet that this book recommends for a healthy heart is really... more info
