The HAPI Heart Diet and Cookbook: Gourmet Meals, Common Sense and a Scientific Rationale for a Happy and Heart-Healthy Life

CLASSIC FRENCH CUISINE MEETS HEART-HEALTHY LIVINGThe HAPI Heart Diet and Cookbook takes the fundamental principles of classicFrench culinary art and combines them with the proven health-promoting anddisease-preventing powers of the Mediterranean diet. Using expert advice onnutrition and exercise, and more than two hundred fifty pages of gourmet recipes,Michael P. Varveris, MD shows how best to prevent the development ofcardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes. Instead of a quick fix or miracle pill,Varveris provides a daily physical activity plan, focusing on aerobic exercise,stretching and strength training, and offers sound information on caloriecounting,appropriate vitamin and mineral supplements as well as "good" versus"bad" fats and carbohydrates.Regardless of whether or not other diet plans have worked for you in the past, ifyou have the right attitude, eat and exercise smarter, and realize you are embracinga new and better way of life rather than simply a way to look good for thatupcoming high school reunion, you'll find it impossible not to succeed. Let TheHAPI Heart Diet and Cookbook show you how!

Michael P.Varveris,MD, was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He received his medicaldegree from the University of Miami and is Board Certified in both ClinicalLipidology as well as Internal Medicine. Varveris is Medical Director of the HeartAttack Prevention Institute (HAPI) in Naples, Florida.