After her brush with death during emergency heart surgery, author Mellanie True Hills has devoted her “second chance” at life to helping individuals create healthy lifestyles and teaching organizations how to create safe work environments. In the United States alone, nearly 3,000 men and women lose their lives to heart disease and stroke each day. But these conditions are preventable, and the factors that cause them–especially stress–are easy enough to eliminate.
The author’s mission is to disseminate the knowledge that can help men and women everywhere save their own lives. She emphasizes the importance of hope, but she encourages everyone to do more than that. Taking control, decreasing stress, and protecting yourself–these seemingly obvious, yet often overlooked steps can keep people out of the emergency room and still allow them to live their lives.
True Hills is the founder and CEO of the American Foundation for Women’s Health. She works with organizations that want productive workplaces in which stress is kept to a minimum and their employees are as healthy as possible.
