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Protect your heart naturally Once considered a "man's disease," heart disease kills 500,000 women each year. Today's women are not only as stressed and as overweight as men, they also "feel" more deeply than men--depression, anger, and sadness can have very physical effects on a woman's heart. "A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart explores the role of emotions on your cardiovascular health and shows you how to start making natural changes to help you live a fuller, healthier life. A must-have "owner's manual" for all women, "A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart helps you work through your distinctly feminine emotional issues as well as your medical concerns. It shows you how a more positive, uplifting attitude will go a long way towards a healthier life. Full of heart-sensible advice, "A Woman's Guide to a Healthy Heart covers: Safe weight-loss tipsSimple ways to get heart-healthy exercise into your daySupplements to take and supplements to avoid--is CoQ10 for you?The benefits of common foods such as garlic, green and black tea, and soy, as well as less-known herbs such as ginkgo, Asian ginseng, and chasteberry Carol Simontacchi is a certified clinical nutritionist and the author of a number of books on health and nutrition, including "Your Fat Is Not Your Fault and "The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children. She is the designer and author of the holistic weight and health management program called Wings: Weight Success for a Lifetime (www.flywithwings.com). Frances E. FitzGerald writes articles for "Taste for Life and "HealthSmart magazines and teaches college writing classes. She is the coauthor of "Winning at Weight Loss:Achieve Healthy, Permanent Results.

Arthur L. Caplan has been an important voice in bioethics for many years. In a great number of essays and articles he has taken on some of the most pressing issues in bioethics today. This book brings his most important work together with new essays on autonomy in nursing homes and on the ethical issues raised by the mapping and sequencing of the human genome. In an introductory essay Caplan updates some of his views and responds to criticisms. Caplan begins with a discussion the nature of work in applied ethics. He rejects the view that those who do bioethics or any other version of applied ethics are merely the servants of moral theoreticians. Next, Caplan examines some of the tough moral questions raised by the use of animals in biomedical research. While not recognizing that animals have rights, he argues for more humane treatment when they are used in scientific research. In a group of essays on human experimentation, Caplan studies such issues as privacy and the obligation to serve as a voluntary subject in medical experimentation. In subsequent essays, he explores the frontiers of medicine in genetics, reproductive technology, and transplantation and reviews the challenges posed to the American health care system as the population grows older. Caplan concludes by confronting the pressing public policy issues of cost containment and rationing. He rejects the view that rationing is the only means available for reducing the escalating costs of health care and suggests strategies that would control costs while affording access to basic medical care for every American.