<p>Joe Piscatella is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the link between lifestyle habits and cardiac health, and one of the longest-lived survivors of cardiac bypass surgery in the country. In his motivational seminars, which have been called "a force for positive change" by <em>TIME</em> magazine, he teaches how to live a healthier, better-balanced life in our stressful modern society.</p><p>At 32 years old, Joe Piscatella was a successful businessman with a new home and two young children--a bright future lie ahead of him. But one day, it all suddenly fell apart. Experiencing discomfort in his chest while playing tennis, Piscatella went in for a physical and two days later had emergency heart bypass surgery for a 95% blockage of his coronary arteries. At 32, he faced a prognosis that all but guaranteed an early death. Refusing to accept that option, he did extensive research and interviewed medical experts to create a plan for a healthy, balanced lifestyle he could implement. The results were so breathtaking that doctors urged him to tell his story.</p><p>Piscatella is the best-selling author of <em>Don't Eat Your Heart Out</em>, which recounts his journey from cardiac patient to health expert. He has also written <em>Take A Load Off Your Heart</em>, <em>The Road to A Healthy Heart Runs Through the Kitchen</em>, <em>Positive Mind, Healthy Heart</em>, and <em>Prevent, Halt & Reverse Heart Disease: 109 Things You Can Do</em>.</p>
Lifestyle and Health Expert and Best-Selling Author
<ul><li><strong>Overcoming Chronic Stress in the Age of COVID-19</strong></li><li>This is an era of unprecedented disruption in our lives caused by a pandemic virus, a collapsing economy, uncertainty about schools, lost jobs and social turmoil. On top of this major disruption, there is still the daily stress from too little time and too much to do. Indeed, 89% of us say that the stress in our lives is overwhelming. </li><li>Joe Piscatella is a man with a message about managing stress successfully and the skill to tell it. A national expert on lifestyle habits and health, he is the author of 17 best-selling books, host of three PBS television specials on heart health, a Guest Expert on WebMD, and has had numerous appearances on The Today Show and Good Morning America, and has served as the only non-medical member of the NIH Expert Panel on Cardiac Rehabilitation.</li><li>In this seminar, Joe helps audiences understand that the secret to a balanced life is not to avoid stress, but to manage it on your own terms; not to react to stress, but to respond to it with a variety of mental and physical tools and behaviors. Attendees will learn: how to reduce chronic stress before it affect well-being, particularly cognitive and cardiac health; where the most common sources of chronic stress creep into our lives; and why now, more than ever, it's imperative for us to develop physical and mental behaviors for managing stress successfully. </li><li><strong>Make Your Health Last as Long as Your Life</strong></li><li>Just because you can afford retirement doesn't mean that you will have the quality of life to enjoy it. While a financial plan is important, a good health plan is critical. There is a difference between longevity, the amount of years you live, and health span, the number of years you live in good health. Two people, for example, each live to age 85. But while the first spends the last 20 years of life in a golf cart, the other spends those years in a wheelchair. Their respective longevity is the same, but their health spans are drastically different. In this timely program, Joe examines the eight lifestyle habits found in societies all over the world where people not only live longer, but also have extended years of good health. Learn what you can do now to maximize your "health span" and increase the number of years you will have good health</li><li><strong>Eating Healthy in a DoubleCheeseburger.com World</strong></li><li>A balanced diet is critical for good health and increased performance. But how do you sort out what is balanced in a world where conflicting diet claims and new weight-loss diety books appear weekly? In over three decades of successfully managing his heart disease, Joe knows fad diets from real science. His sensible, realistic program offers basic principles for healthy eating, including cutting-edge methods on how to control your fat tooth. (That's right, fat tooth, not sweet tooth!). More importantly, he gives nutritional science real-life application. Audiences will learn how to read food labels, to make smart choices at a grocery store, what the secret is to cooking healthy food at home (and having your whole family enjoy it), and how to handle eating in the company cafeteria or in a restaurant.</li><li><strong>Move It or Lose It</strong></li></ul>