Exercises for Women
By: WHF
Booklet 8.5 x 11 - 12 pages, $12.00

By popular demand, the Women's Heart Foundation has created this quick reference guide just for you. Every woman will want this booklet to help maintain healthy bones and a healthy heart.

Go GREEN Recipes for Women
By: WHF
Booklet 8.5 x 5.5 - 60 pages, $17.00

Turns out what's good for the environment is also good for the heart. The Women's Heart Foundation goes GREEN by introducing simple, easy-to-prepare vegetable dishes and delectable fruit desserts the whole family will enjoy. Prepared in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Select Mediterranean and Asian recipes included.

Recipes for Teens
By: WHF
Booklet 5.5 x 8.5 - 21 pages, $7.00

This recipe collection was created by the Women's Heart Foundation to empower young girls to take better care of themselves. Recipes were designed and tested by WHF's own registered dietitian, along with 126 adolescents at its Teen Esteem© Health and Fitness program at Trenton High. They're sure to be a hit with your young person too!

How to Keep from Breaking Your Heart
By: Barbara H. Roberts, MD, FACC
Paperback - 250 pages, $20.00

Gender-specific treatments for women's heart disease is written with wit and wisdom by Women's Heart Foundation's own President, Dr. Barbara Roberts, Director of the Woman's Heart Center at Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island. This book is a MUST BUY for the contemporary woman.

The Female Heart
By: Marianne J. Legato, MD
Paperback - 252 pages, $20.00

WHF Advisor Dr. Legato is founder of the gender-specific medicine movement worldwide. This book was the first to raise the issue of how women's hearts differ from men's and picqued the interest of the medical community. Superbly written with Carol Coleman.

Brain Attack, The Journey Back
By: Liz Pearl
Paperback - 270 pages, $26.00

This anthology is a unique collection of 33 original entries written by survivors and heroes about their recovery journeys from Stroke. This unique collection includes creative writing works from a wide range of individuals who have experienced a Stroke. Several family members have also contributed work.

Life-Saving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease in Women
By: Nieca Goldberg, M.D.
Paperback - 480 pages, $16.00

Provides the best step-by-step approach for women to understanding, preventing and coping with heart disease. Discusses risk factor reduction and lifestyle changes to treatments and diagnostic tests. Reader friendly and clearly subdivided into sections, making it easy to find answers to your questions.

Healthy Heart Handbook for Women
By: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Paperback - 100 pages, $6.00  

Provides an overview of heart disease in women. Emphasizes prevention strategies and risk factor reduction, including the DASH diet for lowering high blood pressure. Dry reading, but a good resource regularly updated. Click here to access pdf printable version.

Heart Sense for Women - Your Plan for Natural Prevention and Treatment
By: Stephen T. Sinatra, MD
Paperback - 100 pages, $10.00

Dr. Sinatra reveals why heart disease is the #1 killer of women and shatters the myths that keep this a hidden epidemic. He outlines a prescriptive plan for natural prevention and treatment. Recognizing early warning signs of heart attack and 15 key risks discussed. How to protect yourself and being in touch with your emotions can lower your risk. Check with your doctor before starting any new regime or supplement.

A Woman's Guide to Heart Attack Recovery
By: Harvey M. Kramer, M.D. and Charlotte Libov
Paperback - 309 pages, $16.00

More clinically-based reading. Great for the woman who wants to have in-depth knowledge of her condition and why certain tests are ordered. A good resource, sensitively written.

Take It to Heart - The Real Deal on Women and Heart Disease
By: Pamela Serure
Paperback - 110 pages, $20.00

Ms. Serure artfully describes of her bittersweet journey with heart disease and her road to recovery... a compelling account of heart women's disease and one woman's story.

Thriving with Heart Disease By: Wayne M. Sotile, Ph.D.
Paperback - 303 pages, $14.00

Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
By: Dean Ornish, M.D.
Paperback - 638 pages, $8.00

The "Opening Your Heart Program" is a research-based healthy lifestyles intervention proven angiographically to reverse coronary lesions, however, patients in the study lived in a controlled environment. As an adjunct therapy or treatment of high-risk patients who are unable to undergo more aggressive therapy, this program may be a viable option, as it is very difficult to maintain such a rigid lifestyle.

Success with Heart Failure
By: Marc Silver, M.D.
Paperback - 272 pages, $21.00

Provides a helpful and encouraging guide to anyone with congestive heart failure. Well written and descriptive, it offers helpful tips and optimism. (reviewed by womenheart)