Take a Load Off Your Heart

Piscatella's own emergency bypass surgery at 32 gives this heart-health guide genuine moral authority, and co-author Barry Franklin's exercise physiology credentials ground the fitness sections. The 109-tip format is fragmented but also reader-friendly for people who want to adopt changes incrementally rather than overhaul everything at once. Some specific recommendations from 2003 will need cross-checking with current guidelines, but the stress-as-cardiac-risk emphasis was ahead of its time.