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Keeping Your Heart Healthy

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Keeping Your Heart Healthy by Dr Boon Lim is a practical guide to understanding and preventing heart disease. Covering topics such as hypertension, cholesterol, inherited cardiac conditions, chest pain, stress, fainting, and structural heart problems, this book offers clear explanations and actionable advice. Readers will learn how to maintain heart health through exercise, nutrition, and smart lifestyle changes, all based on the author's extensive expertise as a leading cardiologist.
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This book is ideal for anyone interested in improving their heart health, including those with risk factors or a family history of heart disease. It suits readers seeking a straightforward, authoritative resource on managing and preventing cardiac conditions through informed lifestyle choices.

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Keeping Your Heart Healthy is the go-to book on heart health by a world-leading cardiologist.

Keeping Your Heart Healthy is a short, practical guide to heart disease from one of the world's leading cardiologists.

From hypertension, cholesterol, and inherited cardiac conditions, to chest pain, stress, and fainting to structural heart problems, Dr Lim draws on his years of knowledge and expertise to offer easy-to-follow advice and explanations on the most common heart conditions.

Concise and accessible, this book will address everything you could possibly need to know about how to properly take care of your heart and keep it in great shape. It will provide step-by-step, easily actionable tips on how to prevent and reduce heart issues by simply exercising more, being mindful of your nutrition and diet, and by making smarter, healthier lifestyle choices.

Keeping Your Heart Healthy will be the go-to book for readers looking to improve their heart health.

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    Keeping Your Heart Healthy is the go-to book on heart health by a world-leading cardiologist. Keeping Your Heart Healthy is a short, practical guide to heart disease from one of the world's leading cardiologists. From hypertension, cholesterol, and inherited cardiac conditions, to chest pain, stress, and fainting to structural heart problems, Dr Lim draws on his years of knowledge and...
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Praised as simple, concise, and accessible, the book is recommended by experts including Dr James R. Doty, who highlights the insightful explanation of the brain-heart connection. Trudie Lobban MBE calls it a must read that covers both heart mechanics and electrical functions, helping readers understand symptoms and risks from fainting to sudden cardiac death. It is described as an inspirational and well-researched work that motivates readers to prioritise heart health.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241504628

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Life

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Dr Boon Lim is a Consultant Cardiologist based at Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospital, a major cardiac tertiary hospital and one of the largest specialist cardiac units in London. He is recognised as a leader in the fields of syncope and arrhythmias, often giving lectures to both patients and doctors, nationally and internationally. Boon was voted by his peers at Top Doctor of the Year in 2018 and 2019. He is one of the creators of www.stopfainting.com, he writes a blog and posts videos on his website, and he was part of the BBC's Second Opinion Surgery.

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