For those hoping to reduce their risk of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes, The Healthy Heart Miracle offers a simple, 8–week plan that works or without cholesterol or blood pressure–lowering drugs. Dr. Mirkin's SHOW ME! Diet dramatically improves blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, and his DASH Plus program offers a whole–grain, high–vegetable regimen that includes easy–to–follow menus and 50 recipes. The exercise plrogram Dr. Mirkin has devised accomodates differing levels of fitness and is geared toward today's hectic, time–strapped lives.

In a time when both obesity and diabetes rise to new levels, Healthy Heart Miracle Diet cuts through the barrage of conflicting dietary rules issued from on-high and nails down how you can lose weight, boost your energy, and strengthen your heart. Thirteen easy-to-read chapters help you easily adjust your diet by delivering the final word on fat, complex and simple carbs, protein, the best supplements for heart health, light exercise, and more. Throughout, more than 500 hints and tips clear up confusing nutritional claims, explode myths, and explain how eating right can be as easy as pie. Tying everything up with a big heart-healthy, weight-conscious ribbon are 100-plus tempting recipes proving that eating right doesn't mean starving yourself or giving up the foods you love like Lasagna with Spinach, Turkey Sausage, and Three Cheeses and treats like Chocolate-Walnut Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies. True or False? Fat is the number one evil in the diet. Answer: False Thin people who don't exercise are twice as likely to suffer heart disease as overweight people who do. Answer: True Eating soybeans can lower cholesterol by as much as 10 percent Answer: False-more recent studies show the number to be about three percent, and you would have to eat about 1.5 pounds a day to get there. Laughter opens the arteries Answer: True Drinking coffee can increase your risk for heart disease Answer: False-Coffee is relatively high in antioxidants and contains chlorogenic acids, which may lower blood sugar.

In the vein of Eat, Pray, Love, this powerful memoir chronicles a woman's search for meaning following a paradigm-shifting near-death experience Karen Henson Jones was on the conventional path to success in the corporate world when a sudden cardiac event at the age of 30 took her to the brink of death. During an otherworldly near-death experience, she was presented with a choice to leave her body or to return to Earth. When her request to live was granted, Karen was forced to come to terms with the life she had been living. With warmth, wonder, and wit, Heart of Miracles follows Karen on an inspirational journey through India, Italy, Bhutan, and the Holy Land of Israel in search of a more meaningful life. Exploring the power of meditation, Western medical science, the transformative doctrines of reincarnation, and the teachings of Jesus, Karen encourages us to embrace the full possibilities of our spiritual selves.

Dr. Mirkin's program will help readers achieve dramatic improvements in blood pressure and cholesterol in as little as eight weeks. Includes menus, shopping lists, recipes, and workout plans.

Mangano discusses a unique, all-natural system for lowering blood pressure that is not based on a single approach such as stress reduction, herbs or special foods, or exercise. It's based on a combination of methods that have been scientifically proven to work.

When taken as a supplement, used in cooking, or applied directly to the skin, coconut oil has been found to promote weight loss, help protect against many diseases, strengthen the immune system, improve digestion, and prevent premature aging of the skin.

FEATURING 50 QUICK-AND-EASY RECIPES The ultimate guide to the nutritional powerhouse supplement praised as "green gold" for its curative, health-boosting qualities. Increase energy, torch calories, and improve your immunity with the antioxidant-packed magic of matcha green tea powder! This handy book serves up all the vital information on how to maximize the benefits of this miraculous superfood. Go beyond tea with this mouthwatering collection of matcha-boosted recipes for every meal of the day, including:• Matcha Cranberry Scones• Matcha Chia Pudding• Poached Eggs on Matcha Hash• Candied Matcha Carrots• Sriracha Matcha Salmon • Matcha Curry Lentils• Cauliflower Matcha Stir-Fry• Chocolate Matcha Truffles