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"The golden age of heart science is only just beginning. While heart disease has been around for a long time, the type of heart disease people have, why they have it, and how it's treated is changing. Yet the golden age of heart science is only just beginning. And with treatments of heart disease altering the very definitions of human life and death, there is no better time to look at the present and future of heart disease, the doctors and nurses...
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"In the tradition of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Reinhard Friedl's The Source of All Things is a heart surgeon's personal investigation of the human heart, moving from his riveting clinical experiences to a more poetic understanding of its workings. The heart is our most important organ. Yet despite that it has not changed since the appearance of Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago, it is also our most mysterious. In most human cultures, it is seen as the...
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"For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was the spark of life as well as somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in [this book], it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and developed the science to change the way we live. Deftly weaving together his own experiences with the defining discoveries...
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"This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization 15,000 years ago to today. It examines how we humans have evolved our beliefs about the purpose of the heart to try to understand what life forces it contains. Throughout our history, the heart has played an important role for the poet, the philosopher, and the physician. Until modern times, the heart was considered the home of our emotions, thoughts, memories...
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"At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier....
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At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier....
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Low Fat Cookbook A Low Fat Diet with Gluten Free Recipes Are you looking to improve your life? Do you want to upgrade your health? Do you want to stop living day to day and plan for the future? Naturally a low fat diet is not going to fix all of your existing problems, but it WILL take care of a great deal. That being said, this is one book that you simply do not want to miss. There are lots of low fat meals and low fat diet recipes to read over....
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Low Cholesterol Diet Recipes: Living Healthy with Smoothie Diet and Kale Recipes Learn the wonders of one amazing vegetable that will make your low cholesterol diet easy to follow. The recipes found in this book, show how this Super Food, known to some as Kale, is much more versatile than ever imagined. Used in healthy recipes for dinner, along with other nutritional foods, you will find very little that kale is not capable of. The little respected...
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EKG interpretation is a clinical skill that is invaluable and many different ways are used to teach this in medical schools. The teaching method is at most times informal and they are expected to know how to do it while they are dealing with patients in the wards and clinics. In this book you will find the basic principles EKG, how it works, how you will be able to identify arrhythmia, heart attack, what causes them, what the symptoms are, and the...
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Low Cholesterol Recipes Superfoods and Gluten Free that May Lower Cholesterol This Low Cholesterol Recipes book features low fat meals using both low carb recipes and low calorie recipes through the Super Foods Diet and the Gluten Free Diet. Cholesterol levels go hand in hand (in most cases) with excessive weight gain from eating unhealthy diets full of junk food and from the lack of exercise. By developing healthy eating habits from choosing low...
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Low Fat Diet Recipes: Gluten Free Recipes and Superfoods This Low Fat Diet Recipes book contains diet ideas and healthy low fat recipes from two different diet plans the Superfoods diet and the Gluten Free diet. Each of these diets provides good food ideas and easy low fat recipes to help you plan for a healthy menu. You can take the diet food ideas within this easy food recipes book to create all the low fat healthy recipes you will want. Each diet...
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I wanted to write this book because I saw many of my students, with excellent results over execution in didactic portion and clinical skills, who were afraid to face the first echocardiography work. Repeatedly, some of them rejected offers of jobs during the externship, claiming that they needed more practice. Therefore, from the sky appeared to me the idea for this book: I want to stop the fear of starting work now in this world of echocardiography....
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Für uns ist der Druck des Blutes gegen die Gefäßwand eine Zahl. Sie ist oft zu hoch. Für den Organismus ist diese Kraft ein Werkzeug. Mit diesem Aufwand werden aus den Adern heraus Nährstoffe und Sauerstoff im Blut durch Gefäßmembrane in das angrenzende Gewebe gepresst. Es ist sozusagen die Essensausgabe an unsere Zellen. Ein hoher Blutdruck ist niemals ein Versehen. Es ist die sinnvolle Antwort auf ein Problem. Gegen jeden Widerstand in dieser...
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Low Carb Diet Low Carb Meals and Low Carb Snacks that Satisfy the Whole Family Now, a complete, sensible way to introduce the entire family to healthier eating with a low carb diet plan. Included are a list of low carb foods, an explanation of the benefits gained by using a low carb diet, and delicious recipes to make and include in any low carb diet menu. There are 50 delicious low carb recipes that have under 500 calories per serving. Extra tips,...
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"Through the Fire" is an inspiring memoir that delves into the profound impact of a sudden and unexpected cardiovascular event on the author's life. Ann Bayah's gripping narrative draws readers into her harrowing journey to survival, one that forever alters the course of her existence.
In these pages, readers are not only witnesses to her personal story but also recipients of a vital warning. Ann's life-changing experience serves as a stark reminder...
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Low Carb Meal Ideas Low Carb with Gluten Free and Mediterranean Diet The Low Carb Meal Ideas book features low carb meal recipes. This book features two diet plans that incorporate low carb recipe ideas with the Gluten Free Diet and the Mediterranean Diet. Both diets have good low carb meal plans. Carbohydrates are responsible for a lot of weight gain, especially when consuming the wrong kinds. The two diets featured here uses foods that are naturally...
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A history of events relative to the development of the medical sub-specialty of cardiology at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, told from the personal perspective of a member of the Keck USC School of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, who arrived there as an Internal Medicine resident in 1956 and has practiced academic medicine at the medical center continuously since that time.
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Low Carb Eating How a Wheat Free Menu, or Mediterranean Diet Can Help with Weight Loss With obesity running rampant in North America, it is really no surprise that there are so many new diets coming to light. Keeping this is in mind, eating low carb might be one of the best things you can do. Within the pages of this ebook you will find plenty of recipes for food low in carbs, and as you probably know, there are plenty of favorable side effects associated...
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