Smart at Heart: A Holistic 10-Step Approach to Preventing and Heart Disease for Women
by Malissa Wood and Dimity McDowell
Celestial Arts/Berkley
According to a revolutionary study by cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Malissa Wood, true cardiovascular health must address the whole heart—its physical, emotional and spiritual aspects. Wood’s findings form the basis of Smart at Heart, a breakthrough mind-body approach to preventing and healing heart disease by strengthening the ten “bridges” that create total heart health. By exploring these ten key areas of your life, you can fight heart disease, says Wood.
For example, while exercise and nutrition are known to improve cardiac health (and make up two of the bridges), Wood’s study also shows how small changes to your environment, the way you communicate, or how you handle stress have a big effect on your heart. Wood suggests simple life-changes that can profoundly affect heart health. For example, something as commonplace as clearing out clutter can positively change not only one’s emotions, but also one’s physical well being.
Heart disease is a serious diagnosis and Smart at Heart empowers those fighting heart disease, as well as those who hope to prevent it, with the scientifically backed methods to have a healthy heart and to improve their overall health.
The Migraine Solution: A Complete Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment and Pain Management
by Paul Rizzoli, Elizabeth Loder and Liz Neporen
St. Martin’s Press
For millions of Americans, migraine headaches are a debilitating part of life. As top neurologists specializing in headache pain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and The Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Elizabeth Loder, HMS associate professor of neurology, and Paul Rizzoli, HMS assistant professor of neurology at Brigham and Women’s, are at the forefront of new research related to migraine management and treatment.
In The Migraine Solution, they provide clear, current, reliable information to meet the needs of the headache patient, while clarifying the “myths” of headache management. This includes the most comprehensive information available on migraines— including a list of essential resources and frequently asked questions, as well as lists of prescription and nonprescription medications, herbal remedies, vitamin supplements, complementary therapies, alternative options, simple lifestyle choices that can reduce the number of migraines and more.
Along with Liz Neporent, health journalist and lifetime migraine sufferer, Loder and Rizozoli provide readers with expert guidance and hands-on tools, including migraine symptom trackers, questionnaires and wallet cards—so that migraine sufferers can best manage their migraines.
You Can Heal Yourself: A Guide to Physical and Emotional Recovery After Injury or Illness
by Julie Silver
St. Martin’s Press
When people are seriously ill or injured, they receive immediate and often life-sustaining treatment. Then at some point they are usually left to their own devices to “finish” healing. At the time that patients are discharged from treatment, they have shifted into a zone where they are no longer sick, but still not as healthy as they were before they became ill. This zone, between illness and good health, is where rehabilitation specialists focus.
Julie Silver, HMS assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, calls this area of medicine “the healing zone.” This is the place where doctors are most concerned with physical and emotional healing after an injury or illness.
Silver says that while the human body is amazing in its innate capacity to heal, people can be taught how to heal faster, better and stronger, both physically and emotionally. You Can Heal Yourself offers the strategies needed for achieving optimal healing.
Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life: Train Your Brain to Get More Done in Less Time
by Paul Hammerness and Margaret Moore with John Hanc
Harlequin
The key to a less hectic, less stressful life is not in simply organizing your desk, but organizing your mind. In Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, Harvard psychiatrist and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) expert Paul Hammerness, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, teams up with one of the top executive wellness coaches in the United States, Margaret Moore, to share with you the six key ways in which “top down” organization to get more done in a lot less time—and feel good about it.
Hammerness, describes the latest neuroscience research on the brain’s extraordinary built-in system of organization. Through high-tech brain scans scientists can now “see” the response of the brain to various situations. Moore translates the science into solutions to help readers to tame emotions, sustain attention, curb impulses and fluidly shift from one task to another.
