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Author
Q&A
1. What was the inspiration for your book?
My patients and the many women whom I
have met at community programs and heart
healthy screening over the past 7 years
are my inspiration for writing this book.
As a volunteer of the American Heart
Association for the past 7 years, I have
been a guest speaker at over 50 community
health education programs. On multiple
occasions I have spoken to women about
tips for heart healthy living. On several
occasions, the women in the audience have
encouraged me to place my heart healthy
tips into a book.
Terri Ann Parnell and I have been friends
and professional colleagues for the past
8 years and have been responsible for
many community education programs on women
and heart disease. We have often discussed
our frustrations at the lack of available
user-friendly, realistic information for
women with heart disease and decided to
write this book to help Black women and
Latinas conquer heart disease.
2. What do you hope readers will learn/discover from reading your book?
Heart Smart for Black Women and
Latinas: A 5-Week Program for Living
a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle is a
program containing just three-steps
written specifically for black women
and Latinas who suffer a higher rate
of heart disease than every other group
of women. This program will explain
and guide women through each step and
suggests easy, inexpensive ways to become
physically active, modify what and how
they eat, and show how to reduce stress,
while taking into consideration the
traditions of lifestyle and family.
Week 1: Preparation to do the first of
the three steps.
Week 2: (step one) Get Moving. Women
will see how easy it is to exercise for
10 minutes a day for five days each week
and how this small change will make them
look and feel great.
Week 3: (step two) Explains how women
can eat well and will explain how simple
steps for eating the right foods, measuring
portions (without a scale), and substituting
unhealthy foods with tasty foods can all
contribute to making them healthy and
helping with weight loss.
Week 4: (step three) Shows women
ways to lessen the Stress In Their Life.
Women will learn why knowing how to manage
stress is every bit as important as eating
right and exercising.
Week 5: Putting It All Together and staying
on track for a lifetime.
3. What distinguishes your book from others on the subject?
Heart Smart for Black Women
and Latinaswill be the first
book to:
a) Target all Black women and women of
Latino heritage , who comprise a large
demographic market and who have different
needs from Caucasian women.
b) Fully discuss the unique risks of
minority women and heart disease.
c) Give Black women and Latinas a simple,
inexpensive program featuring carefully
designed small steps in three areas, couched
in positive, uplifting terms.
d) Help women of Black and Latino heritage
partner with doctors and become proactive
in preventing or managing heart disease.
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