Heart 411: the only guide to heart health you'll ever need

Heart health and disease : the basics that you must know. Saving your life ; Coronary heart disease : the risk factors you know and those you don't ; Cholesterol, friend and foe ; Your weight and your heart : how extra pounds create excess risk

A plan for prevention. Food for the heart ; Red wine and your heart : a drink a day may keep the cardiologist away ; Exercise and your heart : which type and how much? ; Emotion and your heart : you can be scared to death ; How to tell fact from fiction : sorting through the medical evidence ; Which heart tests do you need?

Fixing the broken heart. Medicines for the heart : the Big Six ; Stents versus surgery for coronary heart disease : to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail ; A chance to cut is a chance to cure : what you need to know before heart surgery ; You've got the beat : keeping your heart in rhythm ; Living with heart failure ; Vitamins and supplements : trick or treatment?

Personal plans. The mysteries of Venus : understanding the hearts of women ; Heart disease in men : it is all partly about sex ; Heart disease in kids : prevention starts now!

Looking forward. Heart health (and repair) in the future : Star Trek, here we come! ; Putting heart doctors out of business.