Title: Live With Heart
Subtitle: This Book Will Save Your Life
Author: Mellanie True Hills
ISBN-10: 1-933918-52-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-933918-52-5
Format: Paperback
Trim Size: 6x9
Page Count: 250pp
Suggested Retail Price: $14.95
Illustrations (Number & type): 25 b/w line drawings
Release Date (date in CPG warehouse): January 2010
Publication Date (in-store date): February 2010 (Heart Month)
Category: Women’s Health
As a high-tech road warrior with an extreme job and an "always-on" lifestyle, Mellanie almost died from heart disease and a near stroke. Many women are headed for this same train wreck, but the secrets that saved Mellanie could save them, too.
Most women don't know that breast cancer isn't their worst enemy. Two silent stalkers, heart disease and stroke, kill two of every five women, largely due to our speed-obsessed, stressed, unhealthy lifestyles. Every minute, we lose one woman to heart disease or stroke in the US, and two-thirds of them had no prior symptoms. It's happening to younger and younger women—women in their forties, thirties, even twenties.
Why are we losing this battle? Because women have different symptoms from men—subtle, easily-overlooked symptoms—that many women, and their doctors, don’t know. Live With Heart empowers women to take control of their life and health.
Mellanie True Hills almost died in emergency heart surgery. She didn’t even have the traditional heart attack risk factors—she was simply overweight and overstressed, just like many women today. As a high-tech road warrior with an extreme job and an "always-on" lifestyle, she almost died from stress. Shockingly, more than half of all executives will die from stress-related illnesses. Many women are headed for this same train wreck, but the secrets that saved Mellanie could save them, too.
ENDORSEMENTS/REVIEWS of PREVIOUS BOOKS:
"A near-death experience prompted Mellanie to make a career of telling others what they need to know about heart disease."
- Newsweek
"An important topic and an inspiring personal story."
- Colleen Barrett, President, Southwest Airlines
“This book chronicles a real life story of a remarkable woman struck by heart disease and the resultant rally of her human spirit that led to a restoration of her health.”
- Dr. Clyde Yancy, Director of the Cardiovascular Institute, St. Paul University Hospital
American Heart Association National Physician of the Year
AUTHOR BIO AND RESIDENCE: Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Following a brush with death in emergency heart surgery as well as a near-stroke from a frightening irregular heartbeat in the same year, Mellanie True Hills pledged to use her second chance to help others avoid the #1 and #3 killers, heart disease and stroke.
As an expert on women's health and the CEO of the American Foundation for Women's Health, she raises awareness of heart disease and stroke with her inspirational and motivational keynotes for American Heart Association Go Red for Women events, hospital women's health events, and corporate and association events. She creates real change, coaching individuals in creating healthy lifestyles and organizations in creating healthy, productive workplaces. Executives say, "Mellanie delivers real business results." Audiences say “She saved my life.”
After being cured of her life-threatening irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation, she launched www.StopAfib.org, a non-profit web site "for patients, by patients", which provides information and resources to those suffering with atrial fibrillation.
Always an agent of innovation, transformation and change, Mellanie previously led one of the first corporate web sites, JCPenney.com, and one of the first corporate intranets. She was a high tech executive at Dell, an executive strategist at Cisco, a world-renowned Internet strategy consultant, and spoke and consulted from Singapore to Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to New Delhi .
Author of the award-winning A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: the HEART Program for Health and Longevity, and two best-sellers, Intranet Business Strategies (© John Wiley) and Intranet as Groupware (© John Wiley), she also appears in the highly-acclaimed Sixty Things to Do When You Turn Sixty (©Sellers Publishing) alongside Garrison Keillor, Gloria Steinem, and Dr. Nicholas Perricone.
She has been featured by hundreds of media around the globe, including CNBC Asia, Reuters , Newsweek, Better Homes and Gardens, PBS, Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Her story and the mission of the American Foundation for Women's Health were recently featured in Heart-Healthy Living magazine.
In addition to being a wife and mother, she is an active American Heart Association volunteer and has received their Outstanding Advocate Award for Texas . She has lobbied in Washington , DC and Austin , served on numerous committees and as a member of the Board of Directors for Williamson County , and appeared in media throughout the country raising awareness of heart disease and stroke.
She was recently named a finalist for the 2007 Blazing Star Award by the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Texas and the Texas Governor's Commission for Women.
She also serves on the Finance Committee of the Foundation for Women's Resources and Leadership Texas, and is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), the International Federation for Professional Speakers (IFFPS), and Mended Hearts.