The Heart Disease: A Killer Lurking in our Body


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If heart disease is an assassin he would be the highest paid in terms of the number of people it has killed. Crowned as the number one killer in America, the heart disease can also be easily averted if a body is well taken care of. A healthy heart can give its owner no worries. Some restrictions can easily avert a heart disease from happening.
Staying away from fast food and junk food as well as greasy, high cholesterol laden foods can greatly decrease the risk of having a heart disease. Not only that, they can also prevent other diseases from happening. Fast foods are processed foods that have various harmful chemicals that contribute greatly to the development of a heart disease.
Then there is smoking. Not only does smoking contribute highly to a good number of diseases, Continue Reading

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Heart Diseases Part Xvi – Aspirin: Friend or Foe ?

Besides cancer, heart disease kills more than 2,000 Americans everyday. Approximately 60 million Americans have heart disease. There are many causes of heart disease. Anything that serves to damage the inner lining of blood vessels and impedes the transportation of oxygen and nutrition to the heart can be defined as a risk of heart disease. You might have heard “taking an Aspirin a day will keep your heart attacks away”. In fact, Aspirin does help your heart. the salicyca acid in aspirin helps to keep bloods cells from clumping together and sticking to the arterial wall. This reduces the risk of heart diseases. Here are some reasons to be cautious about aspirin therapy.
Before discussing the benefits and side effects of aspirin, there are some people who should not take Continue Reading

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The Low-Down On The Risks Of Coronary Heart Disease In Women

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death and morbidity among women in the world, accounting for one-third of all deaths in women worldwide. It is estimated that 1 in 2 women will eventually die of heart disease or stroke as compared to 1 in 25 women who will eventually die of breast cancer. Although men have a higher overall heart attack incidence rate than women did, the chance that women die during heart attack is higher.

The risk factors for CHD are more or less similar for both men and women except for some minor differences. These risk factors include smoking, cholesterol, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity, and last but not least, stress. The management of these risk factors has generally been either ignored or pursued Continue Reading

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Heart diseases explained – Part 3

Many heart diseases can be prevented with a little knowledge. But as the Bible state, “My people are destroyed because of lack of knowledge”. But is all kind of people that are destroyed. We don’t believe we can learn something thinking: “is too difficult, I rather let those that has credentials take care of it, I just surrender my health to them”. Well, in regards to heart disease there are alternative treatments. Doctors that are Md’s don’t always agree. And we have to make a decision on what kind of treatment to get. What happens most of the time is that we choose the orthodox medicine thinking that because they are the majority that is the right approach. The orthodox approach is the Big Pharmaceuticals approach which is drugs and more drugs Continue Reading

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Tips to Prevent Heart Disease

A lot of people die of heart disease nowadays. In fact, a lot of people are having problem of things like high blood pressure even when they are very young. In the past this will only happed to some older people. As a result, it will be wiser to take some measures to prevent yourself from getting heart attacks.

First of all, you should quit smoking. Smoking is certainly bad for your health. In fact, you are even risking your life when you smoke. Smoking can lead to high blood pressure. And this will in turn lead to heart attacks. As a matter of fact, smoking can also do harm to your eyes, lung and kidney. As a result, you should try to quit smoking if you want to be healthy.

Alcoholic drinking is not good for you health either. Of course it should not be a problem if you Continue Reading

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