Brill Janet Bond Ph.D. R.D. LDN - Prevent a second heart attack: 8 foods, 8 weeks to reverse heart disease

Praise for Prevent a Second Heart Attack

Dr. Brill provides an engaging and informative book for patients and providers alike. This exceptional book provides easy-to-read information on nutrition and heart disease, practical approaches to heart healthy living, and tools to help patients successfully reduce heart-disease risk. I will recommend this book most highly to all my patients.

JoAnne M. Foody, M.D., FACC, FAHA, medical director of Cardiovascular Wellness at Brigham and Womens Hospital

For the thirteen million Americans who have survived a heart attack or are diagnosed with heart disease, this book is a MUST read! In [a] thorough, thoughtful, evidence-based, user-friendly approach, Dr. Brill presents the eight key foods and lifestyle changes needed to CONQUER heart disease. This book provides the roadmap to successfully navigating the way to a long healthy life after a heart attack.

Jennifer H. Mieres, M.D., FACC, FAHA, cardiologist, coauthor of Heart Smart for Black Women and Latinas

A superb resource for health professionals and consumers! Dr. Brill covers it all! I will recommend her book wholeheartedly to my patients who want science-based guidelines to keep their hearts healthy naturally with nutritious foods and exercise.

Georgia Kostas, MPH, RD, LD, author of The Cooper Clinic Solution to the Diet Revolution

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This book is not intended as a replacement for qualified and professional medical care. Individuals with diagnosed cardiovascular disease and/or those at risk for cardiovascular disease should first consult with their personal physician for medical clearance before making any of the dietary and lifestyle changes recommended in Prevent a Second Heart Attack. The Prevent a Second Heart Attack plan should not be followed without the express permission of your personal physician. Although several versions of the Mediterranean diet have been scientifically proven to lower the risk of death from a recurrent cardiovascular event, the Prevent a Second Heart Attack plan, outlined in this book, has not yet been scientifically shown to do so. Although every effort has been made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, this document cannot be guaranteed to be free of factual error. All of the recommendations set forth in these pages are supported by research; however, many are based on observational studies. Observational studies are not the gold standard of research known as randomized clinical trials, so although the cause and effect cannot be definitively established, in many instances the association and potential health benefits can be. Consult your physician regarding applicability of any information provided in this book for your medical condition. Furthermore, both the author and the publisher take no responsibility for any consequences that may arise from following the advice set forth within these pages.

Copyright 2011 by Janet Brill, Ph.D.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Brill, Janet Bond.
Prevent a second heart attack : 8 foods, 8 weeks to reverse heart disease / Janet Bond Brill.1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-46526-9
1. HeartDiseasesPreventionPopular works. 2. HeartDiseasesDiet
therapyRecipes. I. Title.
RC672.B683 2011
616.12dc 22 2010038490

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To my husband, Sam, whom I adore may you outlive me.

To my father, Rudy Bond, I miss you, Daddy.

To my brother, Zane Philip Bond, I miss you too, Zippy.

To my beautiful children, Rachel, Mia, and Jason:
I am a writer, I am a nutritionist, I am a friend,
I am a daughter, and I am a wife, but first and foremost,
I am your motherand nothing at all would be
worth anything to me without all of you.

Many women come up to me after hearing one of my lectures and tell me they want to be my patient after their first heart attack. I warn them in the gentlest way possible that they may not survive their first heart attack. Thirty percent of first heart attacks result in sudden cardiac death. These people never even make it to the hospital. A recent famous example is Tim Russert, the beloved Meet the Press anchorman.

To prevent a heart attack, its not enough to take medications. A whole package of lifestyle changes is needed, including the foods you eat and the physical activities you pursue.

Dr. Janet Bond Brills new book, Prevent a Second Heart Attack, can help prevent a second heart attack and prevent a first one from happening.

This is the take-home book for heart attack survivors.

After a heart attack, most patients receive a visit from a dietitian who provides a list of foods to embrace and foods to avoid. A heart attack is a wake-up call. Its a good time to learn about changing diet and lifestyle. But back home, it is easy to slip back into bad habits. This book is something patients can read to understand why they need to change their diet.

Indeed, this book is an excellent source of information for any heart disease patient, not just people who have had a heart attack. Dr. Brill teaches us what a heart-healthy diet is and why foods such as fish, olive oil, fruits and vegetableseven chocolatecan reverse heart disease.

As a cardiologist I see patients every day who need to be educated about lifestyle changes. The way theyve been living has made them ill or unhealthy with obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes. When I opened the Rush Heart Center for Women in 2003, the first of its kind in Chicago, I made sure we had nutritionists available to all our patients, free of charge, because most of our patients needed advice about the foods they eat and the exercise they undertake.

For most patients, it seems hard to believe that their doctors arent experts in nutrition. Wouldnt they know what kinds of foods heart disease patients should or shouldnt be eating? Doctors tell patients to eat a heart-healthy diet and assume that patients know what that is. Many cardiologists still recommend a bland low-fat diet. Most patients dont realize that doctors are not educated in any significant way about nutrition. Medical schools cover basic physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, and diseases. Until I started the Rush Heart Center for Women, I, too, had very little knowledge of heart-healthy nutrition. I turned to my colleagues in the nutrition department, who taught me well and continue to share new findings with me.

I was so certain that lifestyle was the key to heart health, I considered going back to school to get a degree in nutrition!

Reading Dr. Brills writings has become part of my ongoing education.

What I love about this new book is that it says yes to the pleasure of food, unlike the Ornish and Pritikin diets. Dr. Brill makes a heart-healthy diet a feast for the eyes, nose, and palate. She recommends the most colorful, beautiful, and delicious foods the earth has to offer, which nourish our bodies. The recipes in the back are a great way of incorporating all the foods mentioned in the book.