Robert E. Kowalski – författare

This updated edition of the 2 million copy heart health bestseller includes all the most recent health research, advice and information for preventing heart disease, plus guaranteed strategies to reduce your cholesterol levels naturally.High cholesterol is recognised as a major risk factor for heart disease – but it is also one of our most manageable health problems.There have been many breakthroughs since the previous edition, and this completely revised and updated New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure is the definitive guide for heart health in the new millennium.The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure is easy to read and provides readers with a no nonsense guide to the key health advice, as well as a wide range of cholesterol-lowering recipes so you can put the advice into practice.Authoritative, and using up to the minute research about how heart disease develops and what triggers heart attacks, the book provides surefire tactics for achieving and maintaining healthy cholesterol levels.Explains the lipid profile – the different sorts of cholesterol – and how to avoid the worst offenders.• Presents the new Supplements – and gives honest advice about which ones you should take regardless of how good your diet is.• The low-down on what’s smart for the heart – and what’s pure hype including aspirin, garlic, red wine and soy…• Why your emotions are important – and how the mind-body-heart connection can play a key role in your health.• Provides an exercise regime that works for even the most time-poor or exercise-phobic readers.

High blood pressure is one of the biggest killers in the UK today: it is a major factor in causing heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease and renal failure. About 3 in every 10 adults in England have high blood pressure. Among people in their 60s, about 6 out of 10 have high blood pressure, and among people in their 70s, 7 out of 10 people have it.In 8 Weeks to Lower Blood Pressure internationally-respected author Robert Kowalski provides vital information on recognising the risks of high blood pressure and lays out lifestyle advice, heart-friendly exercise programmes and tempting recipes that will help you to reduce your blood pressure in just eight weeks.Some tips include:- Put a heaped teaspoon of potassium into every saucepan of boiling water you use when you are cooking vegetables or pasta or rice- Grape seed extract in just one small capsule a day, is sufficient to lower blood pressure by 7 or 8 points. It is just as effective as prescription drugs, without the side effects, is inexpensive and easy to do- Even cocoa powder can lower blood pressure by 4-6 points With special considerations for men, women, children and diabetics, as well as the truth on salt and sodium intake, this book could add years to your life and help you to decrease your prescription drug dosage - or even go without them all together.