Joe Piscatella is one of the country's most respected experts on how to commit to living a healthy lifestyle in the real world.

Joe knows more than a little about commitment and defying the odds. At age 32, a successful businessman with a young family, Joe underwent emergency coronary bypass surgery. The prognosis was not good with doctors predicting he would not live to be 40. But Joe's philosophy was: "You can't change the cards you were dealt, but you can change the way you play them." And he did. Joe recently celebrated his 32nd anniversary of that heart surgery, making him the longest-lived survivor of cardiac surgery in the U.S. He is living proof that with a positive mind-set and the right information, sticking with a balanced lifestyle for optimal health is possible.

A high-energy speaker, he is a man with a visionary message and the extraordinary skill to tell it. He uses the art of storytelling, contagious humor and decades of experience to deliver a powerful, practical message that moves audiences to live healthier lives. Over 2 million people have attended Joe's powerful keynote speeches and breakout sessions steeped in humor, insight and practical "how-to" tools. He knows the science of balanced living. More importantly, he understands the practical application of that science for today's busy lifestyles. With his energy, sense of humor and decades of experience, Joe captivates and motivates audiences, inspiring them to take action for their health. "Joe Piscatella knows more about healthy living than anyone I know," says Dr. Williams C. Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Cardiology.

Joe's position as a thought leader and the practicality of his advice is recognized nationally. He is a frequent guest on The Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America and Fox News. He has hosted three PBS television specials on lifestyle and health, and is in pre-production for a program on the health of children. He is the only non-medical member of the National Institutes of Health Expert Panel on Cardiac Rehabilitation. Time Magazine says, "Joe skillfully weaves humor, a fresh approach and common-sense ideas into an energized presentation that delivers outstanding results."

He is the Founder and President of the Institute for Fitness & Health, an organization that consults on worksite and community health programs. Clients include the Boeing Company, Raytheon, Exxon/Mobile Pipeline Company, Sprint, the U.S. Naval War College, Cleveland Clinic, the Federal Reserve Bank, Starbuck's and GE Asset Management Company.

Says Sally Hass, Benefits Education Manager for the Weyerhaeuser Company, "If companies want their people to live healthier, they have a responsibility to help them develop positive skills. Joe Piscatella supplies knowledge and motivation. He is a bridge to those skills."

• Take A Load Off Your Heart: Stress Management for Bailout Times - In this era of too little time and too much to do, of increased career and family commitments, of crawling traffic and never ending e-mails, Americans are living with chronic stress. Indeed, 89% of us say that the stress in our lives is overwhelming. The result is often high levels of frustration, anxiety and anger.
  
  Says one corporate manager, "I'm dropping kids off to school at 7am, racing to work at 8, in a grocery store at 5:15, answering e-mails at 9pm, and doing laundry till midnight. I'm always behind and never have enough time to do my best. I'm always behind. Weekends used to be for kicking back, now they're for catching up."
  
  In this presentation, Joe examines the impact of chronic stress on health, productivity and quality of life. He helps audiences understand that the secret to a balanced life is not to avoid stress, but to manage it; not to react to stress, but to respond to it. His program not only examines the sources of stress in modern life (including Type A personality), but it provides audiences with a variety of mental and physical tools to successfully manage stress every day.
  
  
• Make Your Health Last As Long As Your Life: Maximize "Health Span" as well as Longevity - 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.
  
  
• Eating Healthy In A DoubleBurger.Com World: A Step-by-Step Guide to Healthy Eating in the Real World - A balanced diet is critical for good health and increased performance. But how do you sort out what is balanced in a world of conflicting claims where fat and carbohydrates see-saw being in, then out, where a tablespoon of ketchup can contain a teaspoon of high-fructose corn syrup, where food supplements claim to be healthier than food itself, and where new weight-loss diet 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.
  
  
• Raising Fit Kids In A Fast World: Strategies for Overburdened Parents - Raised in a world dominated by fast food, television and computer games, kids are more sedentary, overweight and out-of-shape than a generation ago. The typical 12-year old today weighs 11.7 pounds more than his or her counterpart in 1973. In the last decade the obesity rate in white children has increased by 50%; in Hispanic and African-American kids, it has doubled.
  
  The result: a generation of children with elevated cholesterol, higher blood pressure and more Type 2 diabetes. This may be the first generation not to live as long as their parents. What are parents to do? This seminar offers practical and easy-to-implement strategies for teaching children healthy exercise and eating habits that will last them a lifetime.