Heart Health Display | Teton County Library

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This kit was provided by the Wyoming Center on Aging as part of the Healthier Wyoming program. Learn about the importance of knowing your numbers and how to take your blood pressure. Este kit fue proporcionado por el "Wyoming Center on Aging" como parte del programa "Healthier Wyoming." Conozca cómo medirse la presión arterial, la importancia de conocer sus valores y los recursos en su condado.

2) Glycemic index cooking made easy: lose weight, eat well, and boost your energy levels using low GI foods

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Brand Miller, Janette

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"The low GI (Glycemic Index) nutrition approach ... ranks foods based on how quickly they raise your blood-sugar levels ... low-GI foods satisfy your hunger, increase your energy levels, and eliminate your desire to eat more than you should."--P. [4] of cover.

3) The man who touched his own heart: true tales of science, surgery, and mystery

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Dunn, Rob

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"The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously...

4) Pump: a natural history of the heart

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Schutt, Bill

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"Zoologist Bill Schutt delivers a look at hearts from across the animal kingdom, from insects to whales to humans. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings"--

5) Low-salt cookbook: a complete guide to reducing sodium and fat in your diet

6) Naturally nourished: healthy, delicious meals made with everyday ingredients

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"For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was the spark of life as well as somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in [this book], it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and developed the science to change the way we live. Deftly weaving together his own experiences with the defining discoveries...