The Heart Attack Prevention & Recovery Handbook. This item is unavailable.The Heart Attack Prevention & Recovery Handbook

Provides advice on determining and reducing the risk factors for a heart attack, including special considerations for persons over sixty, women, and those who have already had a coronary, and discusses treatments and symptoms

Learn the principles of heart husbandry.
Your heart is a long-suffering servant dedicated to your well-being. Approximately one hundred thousand times daily it thrusts its load of life to the billion of cells which make up your body, its cadence harmonizing obediently to the changing circumstances of your daily life. Don't you owe your heart something?

The foremost cause of widow-hood in the the Western world is heart disease: men over forty die in more numbers than from any other disease. The same fate awaits women later: heart attacks are the major cause of death in women over seventy.

When I was a youth working on the ranch, I learned the priority given the work horses whose labor was indispensible for the operation of the farm. So it followed that they did not have to wait to be watered and fed; for their harnesses to be removed; for a comforting curry-comb and brush-down; a check of their hooves and hide; for their stalls to be swept clean. No matter how tired or hungry, we cared for the horses before we looked after ourselves.

No, you cannot curry-comb your heart, but you can bestow on it the benefits that modern science has taught us. Knowing that perhaps two or three heart attacks are preventable will motivate many to appreciate their hearts and learn the skills of heart husbandry. The Heart Attack Prevention & Recovery Handbook is designed to enable the average reader to choose a sensible path to good heart-health. Broadly speaking, the following principles underlie the strategies in the book.

Foster an attitude of kindness and respect for your heart.

School your heart with proper exercise and appropriate rest.

Govern what you inhale and ingest for a healthful heart environment.

Submit to a periodic heart check-up to determine your risk factors.

Seek trustworthy scientific expertise to control your heart's risk factors.

Learn to love, and live light-heartedly.