The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart Program: Break Your Carbo-Insulin Connection to Heart Disease - Softcover

Richard F. Heller; Rachael Heller; Frederic Vagnini

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345426118 ISBN 13: 9780345426116

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2008

Synopsis

A guide to the low-carbohydrate diet offers advice on how to stave off heart disease, reduce blood pressure and blood fats, lose weight, and promote a long and healthy life by reducing the body's dependence on insulin. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author

For more than a decade, Richard F. Heller, M.S., Ph.D. and Rachael F. Heller, M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D. each held two professorial appointments and conducted research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. They are coauthors of many books, including the bestselling Healthy for Life and The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet.


Dr. Frederic J. Vagnini, M.D., F.A.C.S., is the medical director of The Cardiovascular Wellness Centers of New York. He has served as assistant clinical professor of surgery at Cornell University for more than twenty-five years. Dr. Vagnini is the author and coauthor of many research papers and articles on cardiovascular and heart disease, preventive medicine, and the role of nutrition in heart health and healing. He is the host of "The Heart Show" on WOR-AM in New York.

From the Inside Flap

Compatible with the American Heart Association guidelines, The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart Program is a carb-smart plan designed to correct the cause of your carbohydrate cravings and weight gain while cutting your risk for high blood pressure, high blood fat levels, adult-onset diabetes, and heart disease--without sacrifice and without deprivation!

WITNESS THE AMAZING RESULTS FROM
THE CARBOHYDRATE ADDICT'S HEALTHY HEART PROGRAM

DR. RACHAEL F. HELLER
[show before and after photos of Dr. Heller]

BEFORE AFTER
BLOOD PRESSURE: 220/120 110/70
TOTAL CHOLESTEROL: 250 178
TRIGLYCERIDES: 385 98
BLOOD SUGAR: DIABETIC NORMAL
WEIGHT: 300+ lbs. 138 lbs.
HEART RISK RATIO: HIGH RISK LOW RISK

Are you a carbohydrate addict at risk for heart disease?
Take this quiz and find out.

1. After eating breakfast, are you hungry before lunchtime?
2. Do you get tired in the middle of the afternoon and find that a snack makes you feel better?
3. Do you eat or snack when you're really not hungry?
4. Once you start eating snack foods or sweets, is it hard to stop?
5. Does stress, exhaustion, loneliness, or boredom make you want to eat?
6. Have you been told that you're overweight or have high blood pressure or adult-onset diabetes? Or do any of these disorders run in your family?

SCORING: COUNT YOUR "YES" ANSWERS:
0-1 PROBABLY NOT CARBOHYDRATE ADDICTED
2-4 MILD OR MODERATE CARBOHYDRATE ADDICTION
5-6 SEVERELY CARBOHYDRATE ADDICTED

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345426118
• ISBN 13: 9780345426116
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 448