Murdoc Khaleghi - The Everything Guide to Preventing Heart Disease: All you need to know to lower your blood pressure, beat high cholesterol, and stop heart disease in its tracks

THE

GUIDE TO
PREVENTING HEART DISEASE

Dear Reader,

Through years working in the emergency department, I saw the devastation caused by heart attacks and strokes. I did not want that to be my fate or the fate of those I cared about. As an emergency physician, though, I too often see patients when it is too late.

I have spent years studying and performing research on cardiovascular disease. Wanting to reduce my own chances of early disease and disability, I have implemented the lifestyle changes that can help prevent heart disease. Through years of study and practice, I have learned the challenges to making it work in our daily lives. I did not want to just talk the talk, so that we can all walk the walk.

The greatest treatment for heart disease is prevention. Therefore, my purpose in writing this book is so that I will never see you in my emergency room.

Yours in living while enjoying life,

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THE

GUIDE TO
PREVENTING
HEART DISEASE

All you need to know to
lower your blood pressure, beat high cholesterol,
and stop heart disease in its tracks

Murdoc Khaleghi, MD

This book is dedicated to all my patients who
taught me long before I could teach anyone.

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The Everything Guide to Preventing Heart Disease contains material adapted and abridged from: The Everything Low Cholesterol Cookbook, by Linda Larsen, copyright 2007 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-59869-401-4; ISBN 13: 978-1-59869-401-7; The Everything Low-Salt Cookbook, by Pamela Rice Hahn, copyright 2004 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-59337-044-X; ISBN 13: 978-1-59337-044-2; The Everything Low Cholesterol Book, 2nd Edition, by Murdoc Khaleghi, copyright 2010, 2005 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-4405-0551-9; ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-0551-5; The Everything Guide to Stress Management, by Melissa Roberts, copyright 2011 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-4405-1087-3; ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-1087-8; and The Everything Guide to Meditation for Healthy Living with CD, by David B. Dillard-Wright, PhD and Ravinder Jerath, MD, copyright 2011 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-4405-1088-1; ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-1088-5.

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Acknowledgments

I want to thank my fantastic literary agent, Neil Salkind, and the person who reached out to me to write this book, Kate Powers at Adams Media, for helping me help others. Thanks to my colleagues and friends at EmCare, westfield Emergency Physicians, and Holyoke and Noble Hospitals for encouraging all my pursuits. My research and studies would never have been possible without the generous opportunities at the University of California, San Diego College and Medical School, including numerous scholarships and fellowships.

Thank you to Andy, Alyssa, and PJ, who have allowed me to write another book in between games of Apples to Apples and watchingWipeout. Finally, thank you to Laura, for just everything.

The Top 10 Things You Need
to Know about Heart Disease

1. Heart disease can cause severe disability and death.

2. Anyone can have heart disease.

3. There is no way to know if you are at risk for heart disease without getting checked for risk factors such as diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure.