Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Heart Disease Breakthrough: The 10-Step Program That Can Save Your Life by Thomas Yannios M.D. ISBN: 0-471-35309-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 10 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No fluff in this book.
Comment: Just intensely interesting and highly informative material that is presented perfectly. This information will motivate you to make the changes in your life necessary for good health - and not through "scare tactics".
It's difficult for me to comprehend how anyone who reads this book can come away with a negative opinion that results in a bad review.
I only wish that I had come into possession of this knowledge at an earlier date.
Rating: 3
Summary: Some good stuff, some risky advice
Comment: It is encouraging that Dr. Yannios rejects many of the conventional (and incorrect) approaches to heart disease prevention. There have been no studies that conclusively link high blood cholesterol, high dietary cholesterol, high dietary fat, or high blood triglycerides to heart disease. (For more on this, see Dr. Uffe Ravnskov's excellent book "The Cholesterol Myths.") I was pleased particularly pleased to see him mention that many people who have heart disease have normal cholesterol. In fact, nearly half of the patients in the Framingham heart study who died of coronary disease had blood cholesterol under 220!
I am, however, concerned that Dr. Yannios seems to be so concerned with atherosclerosis as a cause of heart disease. As Dr. Ravnsknov's book shows, there is no evidence that atherosclerosis causes heart disease, nor is there any evidence that high blood cholesterol causes atherosclerosis. And without that evidence, it is plainly risky to treat otherwise healthy patients with expensive cholesterol-lowering drugs that may have serious short- and long-term side effects, simply because they have preatherosclerotic streaks in their arteries. Even fetuses have such streaks. Should we give newborns cholesterol lowering drugs? If so, I am going to go sink all my money into pharmaceutical stocks.
I say, read this book, but read it skeptically. Do not go out and ask your doctor to prescribe cholesterol lowering drugs for you, especially if your cholesterol is normal. Go to a good library and read the journal articles on cholesterol and heart disease yourself, including the numbers. (Summaries can and do lie!) Read the clinical trials of cholesterol lowering drugs to discover the side effects of these drugs, and ask yourself whether, if you are currently healthy, you want to live a life riddled with those side effects in the name of your "health." Read a book on statistics so you'll understand what is and is not statitistically significant. And read "The Cholesterol Myths."
Rating: 5
Summary: Have an MI, then BUY THIS BOOK
Comment: I had an MI at the age of 36 (ouch). Since then I've tried to keep up to date on all the real, important research about heart disease causes and prevention. Trust me, you don't want to have a *second* MI.
This book takes all the important stuff you need to know and gives it to you in a form you can understand. Better than that, you can take *action*. Action that is tailored to *YOU*.
Both my GP and my Cardiologist knew less about all the risk factors than I did. We did the super-low-fat diet thing and they wanted to treat my lipids with *only* statins. This book has helped me educate them and given me what I need to advocate for myself. I'm know doing everything I can for my *specific* risk factors.
My diet is now low in carbohydrate. My doctors, of course had put me on an ultra-low-fat diet, which, for me (and for 25% of the U.S. population), was *exactly the wrong thing*. When I went on a high-protein, low carb, moderate fat diet my lipids ***greatly*** improved (oh yah and I lost 30 pounds).
Given my lipids, I know now that Niacin *and* statins are the right choice for my profile (I had an LDL-GGE test recommended in the book).
Hey I just had a thought...maybe *you* should buy this book *before* you have an MI...
 |
Title: The Cardiovascular Cure: How to Strengthen Your Self Defense Against Heart Attack and Stroke by Judith Zimmer, John P. Cooke ISBN: 0767908813 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
 |
Title: Before the Heart Attacks by Robert H. Superko, Laura Tucker ISBN: 1579548008 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 28 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
 |
Title: Reversing Heart Disease: A Vital New Program to Help, Treat, And.. by Julian M.D. Whitaker ISBN: 0446676578 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
 |
Title: Heal Your Heart: How You Can Prevent or Reverse Heart Disease by K. Lance, Md. Gould ISBN: 0813528968 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
 |
Title: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery by Dr. Dean Ornish ISBN: 0804110387 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
