How to Become Heart-Smart: A User's Guide to heart health and heart disease prevention (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781738520701)

Embark on a journey to discover about the heart, how it malfunctions and how we can help it function normally. Your aim should be to become smart enough to answer some vital questions: to become Heart-Smart.

Within you will learn enough to answer questions about:

- Heart attacks,

- Dying suddenly,

- Blackouts,

- Palpitations,

- Angina, and

- Heart failure.

Heart disease may be a formidable adversary, but doesn't have to remain a silent killer.

Foremost, it is important to get familiar with the most prevalent conditions that affect the heart and circulation. There are two:

- The 'furring' process that narrows arteries (atherosclerosis) and impedes the flow of life-giving blood to heart and brain tissues.

- The effects of high blood pressure on the heart and arteries.

In this book you will find brief, easy-to-understand explanations of these crucial medical conditions, the symptoms they lead to, and how to prevent and improve them.