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Can Women Heal Their Heart with Wine and Chocolate?
New book says consumed daily it reduces heart disease
risk 54%
Feb. 1, 2006 - If women would drink a glass of red
wine a day and eat an ounce of dark chocolate, they could help reduce
their risk of heart disease by 54 percent, says a new book officially
being released today just two days before the Wear Red for Women
observance aimed at educating women about heart disease. This may be the
most pleasurable lesson they get. And, it is sure to catch the eye of
many senior citizens, wary of heart disease.
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"Heal Your Heart with Wine and Chocolate
and 99
other ways women can protect their hearts" is written by veteran health
journalist Debora Yost, who reviewed all the scientific research and
literature exclusive to women and heart disease and interviewed the top
experts in heart health to come up with 101 scientifically based dietary
and lifestyle practices that uniquely appeal to women.
The book is an empowering self-help book for women
because it focuses only on the positive things women can do to enhance
their heart health, says Leslie Stoker, president and publisher of the
New York publisher, Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
The book points to the differences between men and
women and the way they accumulate many heart risks. Many of the ways to
avoid these risks are just as different.
Nancy Loving, Executive Director for the National
Coalition for Women with Heart Disease (WomenHeart), who wrote the
foreword for the book, is actively campaigning this month heart month
to increase awareness that heart disease, not breast cancer, is the
number one killer of women in America and worldwide. In Heal Your Heart
with Wine and Chocolate, Yost cites some startling statistics:
● Only 13 percent of America women considered
heart disease a personal threat.
● Only 1 out of 5 doctors, including cardiologists, know heart disease
is the major killer of women, according to a recent survey.
● Heart disease kills six times as many women as breast cancer and
twice as many women as all forms of cancer combined.
The book offers advice on "wonderful things to eat and fun ways to get
exercise," but the big message to women is their need to focus more on
taking care of themselves instead of only taking care of others.
Most men cant even relate to the type of
heart-damaging stress that affects women, says Yost.
Though most heart research until recently has been
conducted exclusively on men, Yost said she found enough evidence though
recent studies and anecdotally from doctors to come up with 101 solid
ways women can improve their heart health. The book contains 20 pages of
primary references to back up the advice.
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