User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Nutrients

User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Nutrients
Author: Michael Janson
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781591201205

In this concise Users Guide, Michael Janson describes the best nutritional and herbal supplements for preventing and reversing heart disease. Some of these supplements, such as coenzyme Q10 and hawthorn, many be less well known than others, but they are still powerful, natural health-promoting substances. Dr. Janson also provides clear guidelines for how to use these supplements safely.

Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with Dash

Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with Dash
Author: U. S. Department Human Services
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2012-07-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781478215295

This book by the National Institutes of Health (Publication 06-4082) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute provides information and effective ways to work with your diet because what you choose to eat affects your chances of developing high blood pressure, or hypertension (the medical term). Recent studies show that blood pressure can be lowered by following the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan-and by eating less salt, also called sodium. While each step alone lowers blood pressure, the combination of the eating plan and a reduced sodium intake gives the biggest benefit and may help prevent the development of high blood pressure. This book, based on the DASH research findings, tells how to follow the DASH eating plan and reduce the amount of sodium you consume. It offers tips on how to start and stay on the eating plan, as well as a week of menus and some recipes. The menus and recipes are given for two levels of daily sodium consumption-2,300 and 1,500 milligrams per day. Twenty-three hundred milligrams is the highest level considered acceptable by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program. It is also the highest amount recommended for healthy Americans by the 2005 "U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans." The 1,500 milligram level can lower blood pressure further and more recently is the amount recommended by the Institute of Medicine as an adequate intake level and one that most people should try to achieve. The lower your salt intake is, the lower your blood pressure. Studies have found that the DASH menus containing 2,300 milligrams of sodium can lower blood pressure and that an even lower level of sodium, 1,500 milligrams, can further reduce blood pressure. All the menus are lower in sodium than what adults in the United States currently eat-about 4,200 milligrams per day in men and 3,300 milligrams per day in women. Those with high blood pressure and prehypertension may benefit especially from following the DASH eating plan and reducing their sodium intake.

User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements

User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements
Author: Jack Challem
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2003
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781591200673

The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements focuses on the most popular nutritional supplements, those that consistently attract the most attention - and are the ones most likely to benefit the majority of people. In describing the most popular nutritional supplements, this book explains: * Vitamin E can reduce the risk of heart disease - and the best types to take. * Selenium can slash the chances of developing some types of cancer. * Ginkgo can improve memory and recall. * Chromium can help oromote weigth loss and lower the risk of diabetes. * Glucosamine and chondroitin can prevent osteoarthritis. * Calcium and magnesium work together to build strong bones. * Coenzyme Q10 can boost your energy levels and strengthenyour heart. * Ginseng and other supplements boost your exercise stamina.

User's Guide to Women's Health Supplements

User's Guide to Women's Health Supplements
Author: Laurel Vukovic
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781591200352

Women have their own distinctive biological and health issues, which include menstruation, pregnancy, menopause, and breast cancer. This book explains how vitamins, minerals, and herbs can help women feel better and stay healthier.

User's Guide Polycosanol/Lower Cholesterol

User's Guide Polycosanol/Lower Cholesterol
Author: Mark Stengler
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781591200512

Millions of people have elevated blood levels of cholesterol, a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. Yet many supplements and foods can effectively - and safely - reduce cholesterol levels. This User's Guide to Polycosanol and Other Cholesterol-Lowering Nutrients explains what you have to do to reduce your risk of heart disease.

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Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release:
Genre: Blood cholesterol
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User's Guide to Calcium and Magnesium

User's Guide to Calcium and Magnesium
Author: Nan Kathryn Fuchs
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781591200093

Calcium is essential for health, but it actually works best with magnesium to build strong bones, maintain a healthy heart, improve mood, and reduce PMT. This guide explains the health benefits of this nutritional team and how you can use calcium and magnesium together to enhance your health.

User's Guide to Garlic

User's Guide to Garlic
Author: Stephen Fulder
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781591201359

Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.

User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba

User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba
Author: Hyla Cass
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781591200192

In the months following the September 11 attacks, world leaders began a flurry of attempts to muzzle the press. Some governments prevented journalists from covering anti-US demonstrations or criticizing US policies. Others opportunistically adopted the rhetoric of the war on terrorism to justify repressive measures against the media. Still other leaders took a cue from the tactics used by the US military in Afghanistan to keep the press away from the battlefield.

User's Guide to Stress-Busting Nutrients

User's Guide to Stress-Busting Nutrients
Author: RoseMarie Gionta Alfieri
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781591201212

In this Users Guide, fitness professional and nutrition author RoseMarie Gionta Alfieri describes the most important supplements for improving mood, reducing irritability, and preventing depression. Among these supplements are the B-complex vitamins, GABA, and St. Johns wort. These and other nutrients have been shown scientifically to help people deal effectively with stress.