The Natural Way to a Healthy Heart: Lessons from Alternative and Conventional Medicine

by Stephen Holt

Overview

An exploration of mind/body medicine in relation to the heart, Holt's pluralistic medicine encompasses both the conventional and the alternative, embracing any and all treatments that are safe and effective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871319661
Publisher:	Lyons
Publication date:	01/29/2002
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.92(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vi
	Preface	1
	Introduction--The Optimal Way	5
Chapter 1	The Secret to Youth?	11
Chapter 2	What the Terms and Cholesterol Numbers Mean	30
Chapter 3	The Key Culprits: Cholesterol, Triglycerides, and Homocysteine	53
Chapter 4	Lateral Thinking	68
Chapter 5	Looking at Your Lifestyle	85
Chapter 6	Your Emotional and Spiritual Health	111
Chapter 7	Weight Control	132
Chapter 8	Nutrition for a Healthy Heart	151
Chapter 9	Vitamins and Supplements	179
Chapter 10	The Omega Factors	196
Chapter 11	Soy, the Heart of Health	237
Chapter 12	The Healing Plants	258
Chapter 13	Hospitals and Dangerous Drugs	285
Chapter 14	Pulling It Together: The CardioPlan	301
	Suggested Reading	321
	Index	323