Every year, millions of lonely people, unable to communicate with fellow human beings, die broken-hearted, long before their time. It is a silent epidemic, a "cry unheard", says Dr James Lynch, hailed by many leading medical experts as a pioneer and visionary in the field of mind/body/interpersonal health. In this ground-breaking work, Lynch sets forth a major hidden cause of heart disease, a major killer, and recommends a provocative set of solutions. In this book Lynch makes an essential contribution both accessible and constructive. He stresses that educators, parents and policy-makers must change their communication with children if they want to prevent future tragedies of a massive scale. He admonishes all of us, whether single, married, divorced or widowed, that exercises to improve our communicative health must be undertaken with the same seriousness and commitment as our aerobic exertions. And he emphasises how heartfelt dialogue must come to be seen as the key to a healthier, happier existence for all humankind.