Eight Steps to a Healthy Heart - Hardcover

Robert E. Kowalski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446515310 ISBN 13: 9780446515313

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 1992

Synopsis

If you're at risk for heart attack, or if you've had bypass surgery, "Eight Steps to a Healthy Heart" may be the most important health book you'll ever read. Robert E. Kowalski, the author of the phenomenal "New York Times" bestseller "The 8 Week Cardiovascular Cure," has created a guide to cardiovascular well-being that does much more than help you recover from bypass surgery. It actually shows you how to reverse the disease, banish fears of recurrence, and start living the happiest, healthiest, and most physically active part of your life!At 35 Kowalski suffered a heart attack and had bypass surgery. At 41 he underwent a second bypass. After his first operation he was confused, depressed, and shaken as most heart patients are. After his second, he was determined to win "the inner game" of recovery, to stop thinking of himself as a heart patient and to change his lifestyle completely. The results were five years after his second surgery, Kowalski's doctors told him his bypass vessels looked like "they had been put in last week, " and pronounced him free from heart disease.How did he do it? It took long hours of research, and here his decades as a science writer served him well. He read reports, interviewed doctors, and ferreted out the latest, cutting-edge medical findings on nutrition, heart disease, blood cholesterol, exercise, and more. Then using all the important information he had gathered and his own body as a test case, Kowalski put together a program that worked."Eight Steps to a Health Heart" is the first book of its kind

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Kowalski ( The Eight Week Cholesterol Cure ) is a heart attack (at ages 36 and 42) and bypass veteran. In this pep-talk detailing his own recovery, he also provides a comprehensive, step-by-step program for improving cardiovascular health. His positive approach and optimistic outlook for heart patients and former patients is evident throughout. And he also doesn't overlook the fact that heart disease is an equal-opportunity malady, noting that although it's the No. 1 killer of women, it still has not been studied thoroughly in this group. (To his credit, Kowalski chronicles how one woman--former First Lady Betty Ford--courageously coped with both heart disease and bypass surgery.) Readers will find the basics here: how patients should return to work, continue a normal sex life and deal with stress. There are also detailed chapters on how to improve one's mental attitude after a heart attack or surgery; stopping smoking; proper diet and exercise; the medications most frequently prescribed for heart patients; and charts comparing the drugs and their side effects. Author tour.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Targeting readers diagnosed with heart disease, Kowalski ( The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure , HarperCollins, 1989. rev. ed.), who himself underwent two bypass surgeries, presents a comprehensive program covering those lifestyle and emotional changes needed for recovery and future optimum health. He is strongest in addressing the often-overlooked emotional aspects of heart disease, and he covers sexual issues in a sensitive manner. He also addresses the special concerns of women, and he stresses the importance of positive thinking and the responsibility of patients for their own health. So much material is covered, however, that some areas suffer from a superficial treatment. A stronger emphasis could have been placed on the need to use professional help, particularly for tailoring Kowalski's program to each individual. This book is for the more knowledgeable patient who has already absorbed basic information. Recommended as a supplement to other texts on heart disease.
-Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp. Lib., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446515310
• ISBN 13: 9780446515313
• Binding: Hardcover