The 15 Minute Heart Cure: The Natural Way to Release Stress and Heal Your Heart in Just Minutes a Day

257 Pages·2010·1.28 MB·English

by  John M. Kennedy

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The
15
Minute
Hear t Cure
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The
15
Minute
Heart Cure
The Natural Way to Release Stress
and Heal Your Heart in
Just Minutes a Day
JOHN M. KENNEDY, M.D.,
and JASON JENNINGS
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Copyright © 2010 by John M. Kennedy and Jason Jennings. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Kennedy, John M., date.
The 15-minute heart cure : the natural way to release stress and heal your heart in just
minutes a day / John M. Kennedy and Jason Jennings.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-40924-4 (cloth)
1. Heart—Diseases—Prevention—Popular works. 2. Stress (Psychology)—
Health aspects—Popular works. I. Jennings, Jason, 1956– II. Title. III. Title: Fifteen-
minute heart cure.
RC672.K46 2009
616.1’205—dc22
2009031393
Printed in the United States of America
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To my wife, Elisa, and two daughters, Emily
and Alexa. To my mother, my father, my sisters, and
my brother, who taught me to dream big and shoot
for the stars.
—Dr. John Kennedy
To Dr. Joel Klompus, our family physician and friend
for thirty years.
—Jason Jennings
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 The Heart Cold Facts 5
2 B-R-E-A-T-H-E 25
3 Treating and Preventing Congestive Heart Failure 51
4 Treating and Preventing Heart Attacks 69
5 Treating and Preventing Arrhythmias 89
6 Treating and Preventing Valve Disease 101
7 B-R-E-A-T-H-E for Everyone 119
8 Fast Help: Stressed Out and Overloaded 135
9 Is Heart Disease Contagious? 155
10 Stress and Cardiac Zebras 171
11 Heart-Warming Stories 193
Sources 221
Suggested Reading 233
Index 235
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