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Richard Helfant, MD Profile and Articles
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1). Our Genes are Not Our Fate
While genes are undeniably important factors in causing disease, their role has been vastly overemphasized. For most common diseases, such as cancer and atherosclerosis, genes are predispositions, not inevitabilities.
2). Physical Activity: The Great Health Facilitator
How even a moderate amount of physical activity, such as walking, can significantly improve health.
3). Genes and the Mind
People with a strong will to live understand that when they take life-enhancing measures, their health and longevity will be favorable affected, regardless of their genes. They take responsibility for their lives instead of being victims of events. Each and every one of us has the resources within to affect our health and longevity.
4). How to Empower People with a Serious Illness
A serious illness need not be a death sentence. The right attitude, and the cooperation of friends, family, and physicians, can often mean the difference between life and death.
5). Tips For Heart Month: How Your Heart Works
A cardiologist explains how the heart works.
6). Women's Heart Health
The widespread belief that heart disease is exclusively a man's problem is a myth. Women--and most physicians--are not aware that cardiovascular disease is the number one-killer of women as well as men.
7). The New Mind-Body Paradigm
Life-threatening illness is more than a crisis of the body; it is a crisis of the soul.
8). The Skinny on the Metabolic Syndrome: Cutting the Fat
"Metabolic Syndrome" is the combination of abdominal obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and a particularly malignant form of high LDL ("bad") cholesterol. The author gives practical weight loss advice (NOT involving dieting) to combat it.
9). Of Death, Dying and the Possibility of a Hereafter
Discussion by a cardiologist of how both he and a dying patient had a spiritual experience which convinced him that death is a transition, not an ending.
10). Tips for Heart Month: Cause and Treatment of Heart Attacks
A cardiologist explains what causes a heart attack, what to do if you think you're having one, and factors favorable to recovery.
11). The Stop Dieting Diet: Forget Everything You've Read
Simple, easy-to-follow, practical advice for losing weight and keeping it off.
12). From Stress to Serenity: Practical Tips That Really Work
Stress is defined, it's effects and costs discussed, and techniques to reduce and prevent it are offered.
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