February « 2010 « Crown Publishing - Books for Better Living

advice and inspiration to help you improve your life | February 2010

IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE:
· This February, Protect Your Heart
· Are Artificial Sweeteners Safe?
· How to Keep Your Will Power
· Why Your Doctor May Misdiagnose Your Heart Attack
· How to Make the Best-Dressed List
· Warning Signs of Women’s Heart Attack and Stroke
· Reader Response: What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?

This February, Protect Your Heart

Between Women’s Heart Health month and Valentine’s Day, February is all about your heart. So whether you’re hoping to get your health—or your love life—in check, Books for Better Living has just the books to help you get started.

For a chance to win one of our featured titles, click here to read the full article:

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Are Artificial Sweeteners Safe?

And do they help or hurt your weight loss goals? In his new book, clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and brain imaging expert Dr. Daniel Amen offers 11 rules for brain-body healthy nutrition. Rule #5:

Dump artificial sweeteners and replace them with small amounts of natural sweeteners.

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How to Keep Your Will Power

It can be difficult to follow through on resolutions, so Chip and Dan Heath have one easy piece of advice to make sure you keep going to the gym, update your resume, or complete any task…

Say that you’ve been procrastinating going to the gym. So you resolve to yourself: Tomorrow morning, right after I drop off Anna at school, I’ll head straight there for my workout…

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Why Your Doctor May Misdiagnose Your Heart Attack

As the director of women’s cardiac services at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California and an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, California, Dr. Kathy Magliato has operated on her fair share of female patients. Here she shares one of her patients’ stories so that women everywhere can protect themselves from heart disease.

On a warm July morning in 1979 Donna went running, as was her routine. She was thirty- five years old.

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How to Make the Best-Dressed List

Through countless interviews on the red carpet—and many life experiences off of it—Melissa Rivers learned how to shine in the spotlight. Here, she shares how you can shine during your wedding, the big interview, or your own “Red Carpet” moment.

Like it or not, people are going to judge you by how you put yourself together.

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Warning Signs of Women’s Heart Attack and Stroke

According to the American Heart Association, more than one in three women dies from cardiovascular disease. Read on to learn how women’s symptoms of heart attack and stroke differ from men’s symptoms—and what to do if you experience either.

Because stroke happens so quickly, it is crucial to be familiar with the warning signs. Not all warning signs occur with every stroke…

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Reader Response: What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?

In the last newsletter, we asked you to tell us about your New Year’s Resolution— what it is, why you chose it, and how you plan to achieve it. Here are some of our favorites:

Thanks for the opportunity of this contest! My new years resolution is twofold: to lose weight and get back in shape as well as to take more time for myself…

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