Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life!: The Mayo Clinic Plan for Preventing and Conquering Heart Disease Hardcover – January 31, 2012

Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life is a must read for everyone!!!It carries you thought all the stages of living a health life and maintaining a health heart. This book is not just for people with a heart condition. It could help anyone from being diagnosed with a heart condition and if you are already diagnosed with a heart condition, this book is a great resource to assist with your recovery and living a healthy life.The book is broken into four parts for ease of reference :- Part One deals with Mayo Clinic plan for prevention of heart diseases; The Eat 5, Move 10 and Sleep 8 plan.Part Two goes into further details of this plan and provides a encyclopedia of information and methods to assist.Part Three shows in great detail how the heart works and the different heart diseases and conditions that can occur. It also shows how to assist with recovery from these conditions in order to live a healthy life.Throughout the book, Mayo Clinic introduce some of the doctors and patients with real life advise and experiences in various conditions. The book is well written and is very user friendly.As a heart patient myself I will be using this book as a reference and guide to my recovery.

Wanted to learn about congestive heart failure, and I trust the Mayo Clinic’s website. So glad I bought this book! The writing is clear and concise; the book topics are well organized, making it easy to find the heart condition(s) the reader wants to study. The pictures and graphics are beautifully done and help the reader visualize what the text is describing. Probably too basic for health care professionals, unless the practitioner wants it as a teaching aid with patients. I have already shared my copy with friends and family members. Will order as gifts for people newly diagnosed with heart conditions. Great resource to keep handy.

This book is a rather heavy, and thin, hard-covered "coffee table" book. It has glossy pages with beautiful graphics and photos in them. There is good information in here and it is presented well but the information is basic and is presented as a "quick start" guide. The book is divided into 3 main sections, the first being the Mayo Clinic program to get you on the right track for a healthy heart; the second section is on how the heart works and how it can malfunction with beautiful color diagrams; and the last section is on supporting your plan with great recipes and other important points.

I bought this book, looking for answers and to gain information about my a-fib condition It covers most heart problems and contains tons of information with great illustrations, written in simple to understand language, not "medical jargon". I have found this book to be a great resource book that I will keep forever. The Mayo Clinic has been a trusted source of information for as long as I can remember; it's nice to have my own reference book. Anyone with a heart condition, or facing surgery, should buy this book. It contains many great health tips and thoroughly explains various heart issues.

Good book on the basics of controlling heart health factors. This is one of several books I read after being diagnosed with heart disease. This was helpful but the best I have read was Heart 411 by Marc Gillinov and Steven Nissen who work at the Cleveland Clinic.

Havig practised Medicine/Surgery for 50 + years, I have come to one conclusion, Three times.Prevention, Prevention & Prevention.Mayo Clinic Foundation is one the Seven Wonders of Life. Their dissemination of Medical knowldge with particular emphasis on Prevention is matchless.The lastline in the descrition of this book,"How To Raise Hear Healthy Children", brings to mind an addition, "It is never too early." to the cliche of ," It's never too late."I wish this book was there before I had my coronary artery bypass( Arterial conduits, as opposed to venous conduits, at the dogged insistance of my Cardiologist friend.)I don't know, how many copies I am going to buy, but they are going to be many for my distribution list is more than one. Bulk discount Amazon?$16.77 is the least expensive insurance policy one can buy against Heart Disease!I wish I could give this book seven stars, in keeping with the theme of Mayo Clinic being one of the seven wonders of Life.HealingKnife.

I thought it was over simplified and dumbed down.It was padded out with dozens of interviews of Mayo Dr's that didn't really say anything and dozens of success stories that all said much the same thing. A few of both would have been good; but, way too many.The areas of focus were odd to me - lots of space devoted to obscure conditions like uncommon birth defects yet little space devoted to by-pass surgery which is done hundreds of thousands of times each year.I had high expectations when I bought it since it was from Mayo Clinic but was disappointed

Mayo Clinic has an outstanding track record for publishing informative and important books on health. This one is particularly outstanding. It provides guidance with prevention of heart problems as well as taking care of your heart in its current condition. The illustrations by David Cheney make every point easy to comprehend. This book is good for laymen as well as medical professionals.