PART 2

Habits for Heart Health

• Chapter 4: Change Your Life: Foundational Habits will build up your positive coping skills using effective stress management techniques, as well as help you improve your sleep and strengthen your social support.

• Chapter 5: Eat for Your Life: Nutrition Habits will give a comprehensive, well-researched, and detailed review of the latest heart-healthy diet and eating information, ideas for how to incorporate this into your daily life, plus recipe suggestions.

• Chapter 6: Lose Weight for Good: Healthy Weight Loss Habits will provide safe, effective, and evidence-based weight loss advice; practical and doable ideas; and recipe suggestions.

• Chapter 7: Run (Walk, Dance, Garden . . . ) for Your Life: Activity Habits will help you increase your activity level effectively and painlessly.

• Chapter 8: Addressing Heart-Harmful Habits will show how habit and addiction can overlap and includes sections on smoking, different types of overeating, and electronics overuse.