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A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health and Longevity Paperback – May 1, 2005

by Mellanie True Hills (Author)
2.6 2.6 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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Escape the Silent Killers Stalking You

Most women don't know that breast cancer isn't their worst enemy. Two silent stalkers, heart disease and stroke, kill two of every five women, largely due to our speed-obsessed, stressed, unhealthy lifestyles. Every minute, we lose one woman to heart disease or stroke in the US, and two-thirds of them had no prior symptoms. It's happening to younger and younger women—women in their forties, thirties, even twenties.

Why are we losing this battle? Because women have different symptoms from men—subtle, easily-overlooked symptoms—that many women, and their doctors, don’t know. A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life empowers women to take control of their life and health.

Mellanie True Hills, author of A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life, almost died in emergency heart surgery. She didn’t even have the traditional heart attack risk factors—she was simply overweight and overstressed, just like many women today. As a high-tech road warrior with an extreme job and an "always-on" lifestyle, she almost died from stress. Shockingly, more than half of all executives will die from stress-related illnesses. Many women are headed for this same train wreck, but the secrets that saved Mellanie could save them, too.

Knowing what to do can save your life! This guidebook helps you recognize the blinking red warning lights of your health and evade these silent killers at any age. This approachable, easy-to-read book provides explanations, tools, assessments, and five easily-implemented steps to:

• Identify and control your risks, including lifestyle, and create a plan you can actually stick to
• Lose weight easily...Mellanie lost 85 pounds with these secrets
• Find out why working women have more stress and how they can avoid it killing them
• Help your doctor give you the treatment and tests you deserve
• Recognize that women have different symptoms—-knowing the difference can save your life
• Share with men in your life what they need to know

The HEART Program in A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life has saved countless lives and could save yours, too!
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  1. Print length
    196 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Healthy Ideas Press
  4. Publication date
    May 1, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    10.98 x 8.42 x 0.52 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0976600803
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0976600800
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About the Author

Mellanie is a heart survivor who had a brush with death in emergency heart surgery. As the author of A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health & Longevity, she now provides a message of inspiration, hope, and encouragement that causes women to say, "You saved my life."

As The Health & Productivity Revitalizer®, she works with individuals and organizations to create health and productivity, and executives say, "She creates business results."

Mellanie was also an Internet pioneer at J.C. Penney Company, Inc., over a decade ago, where she led the creation of one of the early corporate web sites, as well as an intranet and supplier extranet. At Dell Inc., she was the executive in charge of creating and executing Dell’s intranet vision and strategy. At Cisco Systems, Inc., she was an e-Business Strategy Thought Leader in Cisco’s Global High-Tech Internet Business Solutions Practice, where she served as a Trusted Advisor to top executives of some of Cisco’s largest high tech customers.

As a renowned Internet visionary, she is the author of two intranet and groupware best-sellers, Intranet Business Strategies and Intranet as Groupware, published by John Wiley & Sons, and wrote for numerous business and technology publications. She addressed audiences of hundreds and thousands at some of the earliest Internet events, in locations as diverse as Montreal, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, and New Delhi.

In addition to being a wife and mother, Mellanie is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association for Williamson County and speaks and does media appearance on their behalf to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke. She is also Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Leadership Texas Alumnae Association, and a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), Women in Technology International (WITI), and Mended Hearts.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Healthy Ideas Press (May 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 196 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0976600803
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0976600800
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.98 x 8.42 x 0.52 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    2.6 2.6 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

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2.6 out of 5 stars
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Lynda Lippin
5.0 out of 5 stars Every Woman Should Read This Book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2008
For 20 years now, heart disease has killed more women each year than men. Statistically, 40 percent of women will have a cardiovascular problem in her lifetime, and heart disease kills more women than every type of cancer combined. Women have different heart symptoms than men, and yet most of us, including physicians, do not know this.

"It's shocking!" is the first sentence of Mellanie True Hills' A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life. Hills learned the hard way, undergoing a heart attack and a stroke very close together. As she had none of the obvious risk factors (she was young, didn't smoke, had low cholesterol and blood pressure, and was not diabetic), she thought she was safe. What she was, however, was overweight and overstressed, and that in itself is enough.

It also didn't help that it was hard to recognize her heart attack symptoms - shortness of breath, fatigue, mild nausea and heartburn, and a bit of left shoulder and jaw pain. The acronym to remember here is LIFE: Left side pain in shoulder, neck, or jaw, Indigestion, nausea, Fatigue often accompanied by sleeplessness, and Exertion that seems more severe than normal. As it turns out, most women do not experience the crushing chest pains that most male heart attack victims experience. Women have subtle symptoms, but the same deadly outcome.

The HEART plan has five components: Healthy Eating, Exercise Daily, Attitude Toward Stress, Rest, Relaxation, and Rejuvenation, and Take Proactive Control of Your Health. Hills presents checklists, quizzes, and easy to follow and understand programs to help women move forward in all five areas.

Hills' book is very clear, easy to follow, and to the point. It is a quick read, but encourages readers to take the time to really look at their own lives and make positive healthy lifestyle changes. There is good advice on diet, exercise, stress reduction, hormones, and how to recognize a heart attack or stroke when it's happening. Even if you think you are healthy, you should read this book.
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Armchair Interviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Life-saving information every woman should know about!
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2006
Forty percent of women die of heart disease and stroke--more than ten times the number of women who die from breast cancer--according to Mellanie True Hills in her book, A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health and Longevity. These and other little-known facts about the causes and effects of heart disease in women make this guide a must-read for women of all ages.

A heart survivor herself, Hills tells her own story and uses an informal woman-to-woman style to educate women about heart health. Her book offers easy-to-follow advice on nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, and identifying the symptoms of heart disease in women. The guide also includes a step-by-step workbook for building a customized plan for heart disease prevention.

Mellanie True Hills is the Founder and CEO of the American Foundation for Women's Health. She provides lifestyle coaching and speaks extensively to spread awareness of heart disease and prevention.

Armchair Interviews says: Life-saving information every woman should know.
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Harold McFarland
5.0 out of 5 stars Educational, well-organized, required reading
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2005
Many women are surprised to find that heart disease kills more women each year than breast cancer. Another surprise is the fact that each year heart disease kills more women than men. When Mellanie True Hills had a close call with a coronary artery 95% blocked and nearing a heart attack she decided to do something about her situation. How she saved her life and changed the heart disease scenario is what this book is about.

The author provides extensive educational material on risk factors and what to do about them. She also includes an excellent section on heart attack and stroke symptoms and how the symptoms of a man and of a woman may be quite different as well as how it is diagnosed and why it is often harder to diagnose in women than men.

After discussing how she was able to change her health she provides a how-to guide on developing your own plan to stave off or recover from heart disease. The book ends with an appendix containing multiple forms you can use to help develop your plan.

This is an excellent resource full of information covering the complete spectrum of heart disease. While it is written for women and has a lot of information specific to women, the method of developing a plan that you can use to ward off heart disease is useful for everyone. As such, A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life is a recommended read for everyone.
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Bonnie Neely
5.0 out of 5 stars You Need THis Book!
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2007
A Woman's Guide To Saving Her Own Life by Mellanie True Hills is one EVERY woman must read and take "to heart." It is Mellanie's story of nearly dying of heart disease. Few women realize that in the United States one woman dies every minute of heart disease, 10 times as many as die of breast cancer and 5 times as many as from all cancers! Heart disease and stroke are responsible for 40% of women's deaths, even young women and those who don't smoke and are without history of high cholesterol or high blood pressure. Heart disease kills more women than men, and yet we don't hear about it. This book details the warning signs and has excellent instructions for changing our lifestyles to prevent heart disease. This is a MUST for all women and men who love them
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Sandra Whitworth
3.0 out of 5 stars The only was is going a' Healthy forward'.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2016
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I was expecting more depth in this book as so many health books go a bit further to help one develop their own 'calm' strategies. However, the book really is good for newcomers on how to get on the right track for future heart health. It is very good for newcomer awareness and the issues of the responsibility needed to ensure the right health for the individual. Should be on an essential patient reading list in every Cardiologists clinic!
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