Press Release

HEALTH NEWS

A New Book by the Prevention Doctor

March 12, 2002

Dr. Vagnini's Healthy Heart Plan, a new book by Dr. Frederic J. Vagnini, "The Prevention Doctor," was released this week by Safe-Goods Publishing (Sheffield MA) and will be distributed in major book outlets, Amazon.com, and health food stores beginning in January.

Dr. Vagnini made the announcement on his weekly radio program, The Heart Show. (Sundays 4 PM, WOR-710, New York.)

The new book follows The Carbohydrate Addict's Health Heart Program, a New York Times bestseller in 2000, which Dr. Vagnini co-authored with Drs. Richard and Rachael Heller.

Healthy Heart Plan is written in the vein of Dr. Vagnini's health education radio program. It outlines the elements of a lifestyle for preventing heart attacks and strokes and related diseases -- diabetes, hypertension, and peripheral vascular disease. It also contains a section (contributed by nutritionist Maria Santoro) describing the food supplements, which Dr. Vagnini recommends as a part of his practice.

The subtitle of the book, A surgeon's approach to natural and allopathic treatment for cardiovascular wellness, underscores Dr. Vagnini's experience as a heart surgeon general and his commitment to both traditional and complementary medicine in his practice.

Dr. Vagnini regards the Healthy Heart Plan book as a major campaign in his "War on Obesity": "The United States Surgeon has declared obesity a national epidemic which threatens our country"s social fabric. Obesity is key factor in heart disease and every health education effort must be made to combat it."