You Can Stop Heart Disease--While heredity plays a great role in a person's disposition to heart disease, biology can be overcome with the right foods and dietary supplements. USA Weekend vitamins E, B, and C beta carotene, calcium, coenzyme Q-10 the benefit of superfoods such as fish, garlic, avacados, and strawberries eggs and cholesterol the benefits of tea the secret of olive oil and much more.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: You Can Stop Heart Disease	p. 1
The Research Revolution
Heart-Saving Superfoods
Heart-Saving Supplements
Take This Book to Heart
What to Eat to Fight Heart Disease	p. 9
How Arteries Get Clogged and How Food Can Stop It
The Foods Your Heart Likes Best	p. 11
Fish: The Universal Heart Medicine
Garlic Turns Back the Clock on Clogged Arteries
Discover the Nutty Heart Drugs
Use Vegetable Power to Block Heart Attacks
Surprise! Tomatoes Fight Heart Disease
Fill Up on Fiber
Greens and Beans: More Magnesium
Try the Japanese Heart-Saving Diet
Why Mediterranean Hearts Are Stronger
Eat Olive Oil: The Heart-Safe Fat
Sure Way to Poison Arteries
A Tot a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Stout-Hearted Frenchmen--Is It the Wine?
Drink Purple Grape Juice
Does Coffee Promote Heart Disease?
What to Eat if You Have Chest Pain (Angina)
Drop Pounds, Drop Heart Disease Odds
The Ultimate Anticholesterol Diet	p. 56
How You Can Use Food to Control Cholesterol
Magic Beans
Super Soy--Government-Approved
Oat Power
A Garlic Clove a Day
Half an Onion a Day
High on Salmon
Olive Oil Does It All
Raves for Almonds and Walnuts
Avocados, Yes!
Cure Your Cholesterol With Strawberries
Make Time for Tea
Take Two Apples, and...
Carrots vs. Cholesterol
Calcium-Rich Foods
What to Eat to Lower Triglycerides
Grape Lore Vindicated
A Nip, If You Drink, Improves Cholesterol
Shellfish Surprise
Filter Out Coffee Threat
Danger in Decaf?
Chocolate, Not Guilty
Eggs and Cholesterol--The Real Story
The Most Dangerous Fats
The Perils of Super-Low Fat
Bottom Line on Fat in the Diet
Lose Some Weight
Can Cholesterol Ever Be Too Low?
Straight Talk About Diet Cures for Cholesterol
Ten Foods That Fight Blood Clots	p. 113
Blood Clot Factors Can Save Your Life
How Food Can Control Blood Clotting
Garlic and Onions: Ancient Clot Fighters
Onions: A Potent Fat Blocker
How About a Little Fish Pate?
Red Wine's Wondrous Anticoagulant
Drink Tea for Healthy Arteries
Vegetables Are Clot busters
The Hot Chili Pepper Effect
Spicy Clot Busters
Black Mushrooms: A Sure Blood Thinner
Olive Oil Fights Clots
High Fat--Blood Clot Villain
Try a Clot-Busting Breakfast
Nature's Strong Medicine Against Strokes	p. 136
Nature's Brain Protectors
Stroke Survival Medicine: An Extra Carrot a Day
The Remarkable California Experiment
Fatty Fish--The Blood Fixers
Saved by Tea
New Salt Danger
Added Iron Danger
Alcohol: Good News, Bad News
Diet Remedies for High Blood Pressure	p. 150
Try Celery, an Ancient Medicine
Garlic's Legendary Powers
Oh, for a Tin of Mackerel
More Fruits and Vegetables
Vitamin C Up, Blood Pressure Down
Potassium Lowers Pressure
Go for Calcium-Rich Foods
Fiber Fix
Try Olive Oil
To Salt or Not to Salt?
How Sweet It Isn't
Watch the Alcohol
Few Worries About Coffee
Excess Pounds, Excess Blood Pressure
What to Take to Overcome Heart Disease	p. 175
The Frontier Beyond Food
Vitamins Are More Potent in Pills
Vitamins E and C: Strong Heart Meds	p. 180
Beta Carotene: The Real Heart Story	p. 199
B Vitamins Battle Heart Disease	p. 205
Calcium: Beyond Bones	p. 217
Magnificent Magnesium	p. 222
Selenium: Heart Protector	p. 231
Iron: Heart Enemy	p. 235
Coenzyme Q-10: Amazing Heart Energizer	p. 239
OPC: Blood Vessel Fixer	p. 248
Fabulous Fish Oil--The Omega-3s	p. 258
Garlic the Great	p. 268
Fiber Zaps Cholesterol, Unclogs Arteries	p. 277
Foods with the Most Heart-Protective Vitamins, Minerals, and Oils	p. 287
References	p. 299
Index	p. 311
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