Younger by the Day or AARP Living with Heart Disease

Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Author: Victoria Moran

Inspiring advice and tips for the reversal of aging-mentally and physically-with the promise that readers will look and feel younger after one year's time.

"Wouldn't it be delicious if, even for a little while, I could age in reverse? What if I could short-circuit time and gravity and those psychopathic molecules that oxidize and make the years show up bigger than life? How great would it be if I could get absolution for the suntans and sundaes, the late nights and worrying I indulged in once upon a time, or two weeks ago Thursday?"

With a resounding "Yes!" Victoria Moran's Younger by the Day: An Enlightened Guide to Aging in Reverse, Inside & Out, One Day at a Time, answers these questions and details the physical habits, mental attitudes, and spiritual disciplines that make this not just a lovely dream, but a dream come true.

While we believe we're worried about gray roots and smile lines, the truth is that we're really worried about what these represent: loss of identity, diminished regard from the culture at large, and less time to make the rest of our dreams come true. Younger by the Day does not gloss over this inner angst. Instead, it meets it-with empathy, compassion, humor, and immediately usable information from West and East, medicine and metaphysics. At the end of a year, the reader will look and feel like a younger woman. This book can deliver that promise. One might think of it as Simple Abundance for middle-age: designed to be used over a year's time, directed to women, and coming straight from the heart.

Younger by the Day is light, friendly, honest and witty. More importantly, it's both a practical guide to the adventure of growing younger and an inspiring companion for the journey. While many of the books are written by physicians or models, Victoria is much more like the reader herself. She's a big sister, a best friend, and she knows what it's like to be afraid of entering a new phase of life, has overcome those fears, and looks substantially younger because of it. The reader benefits from Victoria's experience with 365 select techniques to help her love her age instead of look it.

Interesting textbook: Interventions or Vietnam Wars 1945 1990

AARP Living with Heart Disease

Author: Larry Katzenstein

Chronic heart disease—heart attacks and strokes—causes more than 40 percent of all deaths in the United States. That’s 950,000 people each year or one person every 33 seconds. Statistically more vulnerable with age, hundreds of men and women begin the struggle to manage or prevent its occurrence every day. So naturally it’s on the mind of older Americans and the family members who cherish them. What exactly is heart disease—and what forms does it take? Who gets it, and how is it diagnosed? What steps can you take to prevent the problem from worsening? Which are the best therapies? How can you best reduce stress, lower weight, control blood pressure? AARP has the answers.
The superbly organized and authoritative text includes chapters covering key issues, which range from definition to diagnosis and from treatment to lifestyle changes that address issues specifically identified with heart disease. These include: nutrition, high cholesterol, prevention, smoking, and sex and intimacy. The book casts an eye on the future, too, with information on medicines and treatments currently under development or on the horizon. The appendix offers useful point-by-point checklists for managing your treatment, information on handling medical emergencies, and resources.
This guide provides expert medical information and valuable advice that no older adult will want to do without!

Table of Contents:

Biographies     viii
Credits     x
Editorial Board     xi
Introduction     xiii
The Healthy Heart     1 The Heart Is a Muscle A Fantastic Voyage through the Heart
What Is Heart Disease?     11
The ABCs of Coronary Artery Disease
What Is a Heart Attack?
The Warning Signs of Angina
Cardiomyopathy
Heart Failure
Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Heart-Valve Disease
The Risk of Stroke
Recognizing the Symptoms of a Stroke
Heed the Signs of Impending Attack
Reducing Your Risk     33
Assessing Your Risk
Damn the Torpor!
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Cholesterol
Strategies to Control Cholesterol
Cigarette Smoking
Metabolic Syndrome
Diabetes
Being Overweight
The Dangers of Stress
Summarizing Your Risk Factors
Do You Have Heart Disease?     59
When Symptoms Matter
Patient, Heed Thyself
Health History & Physical Exam
Living Well with Heart Disease     87
Improving Heart Health with Exercise
Heart-Healthy Eating
If You Smoke, Stop!
Be Smart for Your Heart
Less Stress Is Best
Combining Lifestyle Measures to Control Hypertension & Cholesterol
When You Need Treatment     151
Medications
High Cholesterol
The Benefits of Drug Therapy
Treating Angina
Treatment for a Heart Attack
Treating Heart Failure
Treating Heart-Rhythm Problems
Treatment for Heart-Valve Disease
Recovering Physically & Emotionally     217
Cardiac Rehab & Secondary Prevention: A Second Chance for Your Heart
Who Needs Cardiac Rehab?
Recovering Emotionally from Heart Disease
Sex, Intimacy & Heart Disease
Treatment Advances on the Horizon     235
New Angina Treatment
Heart-Valve Improvements
Success in Stopping Failure
Hypertension & Its Newfound Nemeses
Patches for Damaged Hearts
Let's Build a Better Blood Vessel
The Stem-Cell Promise
A Scaffold for Heart Repair?
New Insight into an Old Drug
Appendices     251
Resources
Additional Resources from AARP
Dealing with Emergencies
Index     263