Doctor, How Do I Live The Heart Healthy Way

Living the heart healthy way in today's high-stress, fast-food world is not easy! Medical knowledge and technology have vastly expanded our ability to help protect our bodies and keep them at their highest level of performance. However, much of this knowledge, technology, and know-how is often lost in medical jargon, poor explanations, and the ever-decreasing ability of doctors to spend quality time with their patients. Doctor, How Do I Live the Hearty Healthy Way? explains heart disease and heart disease prevention in an easy-to-understand way without all the medical mumbo-jumbo. You will learn, first hand from cardiovascular physicians, the latest information about heart disease and its prevention. PThis book covers information from nutrition, diet, medications, cholesterol and lipid management, medical and surgical treatments and the latest cutting-edge technology available today for treating and diagnosing heart disease. PDrs. Karamanoukian, Aoukar, and Freeman treat patients with heart disease every day, and for the first time ever, share their knowledge in a way everyone can understand. These doctors spend much of their day counseling patients, young and old, healthy and sick, on the way to maximize their heart health -- and now you can be privy to this information, first-hand! Doctor, How Do I Live the Hearty Healthy Way? will provide you with a more complete understanding of heart disease and its diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment, and will help you prevent heart-related illness. PIncludes Sections Devoted To: P- Oral Health and Your Heart BR- Cigarettes and Heart Disease BR- Aortic Valve Disease BR- The Environment and Your Heart BR- Feeding Your Heart BR- Alcohol and Your Heart BR- Cholesterol and Its Treatment BR- Depression BR- Laser Revascularization BR- Nutritional Wisdom for Heart Disease BR- EBCT (electron beam computed tomography) and other cutting edge tools and therapies BR- Me