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"If a person survives such an attack, the dead portion of heart muscle scars. Multiple heart attacks and widespread scarring weaken the heart, sometimes causing it to fail, a condition called congestive heart failure. If a heart attack is extensive, if it disrupts rhythmical contraction, or if congestive heart failure is prolonged, the victim may die. My research shows that this entire process is preventable—and that through nutrition (plus, in some cases, low doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs) the risk of heart attack and heart failure can be eliminated." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "If the person survives this attack, the dead portion of heart muscle scars. Multiple heart attacks and widespread scarring weaken the heart, sometimes causing it to fail. That condition is known as congestive heart failure. If the heart attack is extensive, if it results in an abnormal rhythmical contraction, or if the congestive heart failure is prolonged, the person may die. If the same process of plaque formation occurs in a noncoronary artery, it can be just as dangerous." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Dave had suffered an anxiety attack. Panic attacks are far more overwhelming than what Dave had experienced. They are episodes of anxiety that increase suddenly in intensity, usually for no apparent reason, and lead to an overwhelming sense of terror or fear of death. It's almost as if the brain overloads and short-circuits. Symptoms include shortness of breath, heart palpitations, chest pain, and a fear of going crazy or losing control. Often, the person having a panic attack feels as if he or she is having a heart attack." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Normally, free radicals attack the nearest stable molecule, "stealing" its electron, as seen in Figure 2-3. This attack is known as oxidative stress. When the "attacked" molecule loses its electron, it can become a free radical itself, beginning a chain reaction that can continue. If this chain reaction continues, it can disrupt a living cell. Free radicals occur normally during metabolism. Also, the body's immune system purposefully creates them to neutralize viruses and bacteria." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Yet if you looked at drinking nonwater fluids, consuming a lot of soft drinks, coffee, cocoa, seemed to be hazardous and increased the risk of attack. Imagine if you could really make a sizable dent in heart attack rates just by increasing the number of glasses of water you drink! That would be a major public health finding." Fraser stared into his lap for a moment and pursed his lips. "For whatever reason, people just aren't looking into this," he said simply. "But we are looking at it again with AHS-2, and with 97,000 people, we should find it much more strongly if it is real." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"I will mess up my insides with speed and attack my hunger rather than attack the sources of emotional eating." These strategies circumvent the reality of emotional eating. They keep the emotional eating habit alive in a rainy-day bank account in case you need it to cope with the next life stress. Unfortunately, you can't win as long as you hold the eating remedy in reserve for difficult times, because reality guarantees that youTl backslide under stress, throw off that delicate "calories in-calories out" balance, and put the pounds right back on." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"The body perceives the antigens to be harmful and thus produces antibodies to attack and destroy the antigens. arteriosclerosis—A group of diseases in which the artery walls get thick and hard, slowing blood flow. artery—A large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to other parts of the body. atherosclerosis—One of many arteriosclerosis diseases in which fat builds up in the large and medium-size arteries. autoimmune process—A process by which the body's immune system attacks and destroys body tissue that it mistakes for foreign matter." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"A TIA, or transient ischemic attack, is a ministroke that often serves as an early warning of a more serious stroke. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE BUT ARE TOO STRESSED OUT TO ASK High blood pressure makes your heart work harder than normal and renders both it and its arteries more prone to injury. High blood pressure also increases your risks of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, eye damage, congestive heart failure, and fatty buildups in arteries. Almost one in three adults has high blood pressure!" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"A comprehensive plan of attack is the most effective strategy. Before we delve into the components of your comprehensive prevention or treatment plan, let's take a closer look at how conventional medicine diagnoses and treats our number-one killer disease. Changing Risk Factors Specific risk factors need to be addressed in order to decrease your chances of developing heart disease. The following key risk factors have been identified by the American Heart Association: Cigarette and tobacco smoke • Smokers' risk of heart attack is more than twice that of nonsmokers." - Matthew Budoff, Enhancing Heart Health: Preventing a Heart Attack (Get the book.)

"Also, the body uses the free radical action of iron to attack some pathogens. Iron helps the immune system in another way by enhancing the ability of white blood cells to engulf and kill bacteria. In this case, bacteria are attacked by free radicals that are created using an iron catalyst. Bacteria Need Iron The body lowers blood iron in response to infections. Iron is also needed by infectious agents such as bacteria. The body lowers blood iron levels during acute infections to avoid aiding the infectious agents. Lowering blood iron may be an important immune response to infections." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"This ultimately leads to: HEART attack (also known as a myocardial infarction) HEADING OFF HEART DISEASE Of the primary risk factors for heart disease, high cholesterol is one of the most widespread conditions. Almost 54 million women and just over 48 million men have total cholesterol levels higher than 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). That's more than 100 million people! Even more alarming, most people who suffer a heart attack have only mildly elevated cholesterol levels. (Borderline high cholesterol is between 200 and 239 mg/dL; desirable levels are lower than 200 mg/dL." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Evidence from 1961—1963 indicated that the risk of an attack was about six times greater, and the risk of a fatal attack ten times greater, for the nonimmu-nized population. In the United States, use of diphtheria antitoxin became routine after 1930. Consequently, the fall in the standard death rate that can be attributed to intervention is somewhat higher than for other diseases, a success story of sorts. Yet, according to the McKinleys, the decline in death rates after toxoid is only 13." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The American Heart Association recommends aspirin for "patients who've had a myocardial infarction (heart attack), unstable angina, ischemic stroke (caused by blood clot) or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs or 'little strokes'), if not contraindicated." You should not start aspirin therapy without first consulting your practitioner. Also inform your practitioner if you are taking aspirin and must have a simple surgical procedure, even a dental extraction, as it increases the risk of excessive bleeding." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"As integral philosophy gains ground, postmodernists will inevitably level the same attacks against it as they did against modernism—they will attack the frame of the integral worldview and the metaphysics that enact it. So in order for the metaphysics of integralism to survive these attacks, they will have to demonstrate their own transcendence of modernism and thus secure their liberation from the deconstructed worldview of postmodernism, where little progress can now be made." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"If they don't, you have suffered a stroke (some refer to this as a "brain attack" to emphasize the parallels with heart attacks). People with tias all have plaques in the four major vessels that course through the neck to feed the brain. Unlike the heart, these main vessels join up as a circle before entering the brain, so that diminished flow in one can be compensated for by the flow in the others. Of the four vessels, the internal carotid arteries are amenable to plaque intervention ?" - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Panic Attacks Several patients have told me that kava helps to ward off panic attacks if taken near the onset of the attack. For some patients with this disorder, I recommend the herb as a preventative. I recommend their taking kava regularly throughout the day (two times daily) to prevent an attack. This helps prevent acute attacks, but it's most effective when combined with counseling and homeopathic treatment. Lachesis Dr. Constantine Hering, a botanist and homeopath, was researching plants in Europe in 1828." - Mark Stengler, N.D., The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies (Get the book.)

"Sometimes the attack is a preemptive strike aimed at putting other people off balance before they can mount their own attack. But, ironically, the more they attack their therapist—or anyone else—the more fearful they will become of counterattacks. Whatever the cause, any persistent tendency to attack usually reflects an enduring pattern of self-defeating behavior that can be traced back to things they learned to do to survive in childhood. Therapists, remember, are ordinary people themselves. They are best able to offer their care and understanding when they feel safe and valued." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.)

"It was clear to them that they could save a heart attack patient's life with so-called primary angioplasty and stents, by opening a completely blocked vessel that was causing the attack. They also knew that angioplasty and stents could relieve the pain of angina and in some instances could help patients breathe more easily (because it improves the heart's ability to pump blood to the lungs)." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Five years later, that possibility became a reality when the high-school-aged children who initially experienced America's worst terrorist attack began showing an increased demand for anxiety-related treatment. In March 2007, the Yale Medical Group reported on a study conducted by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA). The paper documented that as the age-group who witnessed the attacks have matured, a "growing number of students [are] coming to college with a history of mental illness, with an increase after 9/11."" - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Sometimes the attack is a preemptive strike aimed at putting other people off balance before they can mount their own attack. But, ironically, the more they attack their therapist—or anyone else—the more fearful they will become of counterattacks. Whatever the cause, any persistent tendency to attack usually reflects an enduring pattern of self-defeating behavior that can be traced back to things they learned to do to survive in childhood. Therapists, remember, are ordinary people themselves. They are best able to offer their care and understanding when they feel safe and valued." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.)

"When it is underactive, we become vulnerable to many different diseases; when it is overactive, the immune system can begin to attack the body's own vital organs, tissue, and cells (this is usually called an autoimmune disease). Enzymes can help our bodies overcome or survive these imbalances. AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system's recognition apparatus breaks down, and the body begins to manufacture antibodies and T cells directed against its own cells and organs. This results in a variety of chronic, disabling illnesses." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "If you seem to catch every virus that comes your way, it's very possible that your immune system is underactive because of a deficiency in metabolic protease, a key component of the white blood cells that attack and destroy viruses. We are equipped to have a strong, healthy system. "Our immune system is overbuilt for success," according to Ellen Cutler, MD, author of Micro Miracles: Discover the Healing Power of Enzymes. Unfortunately, we can inhibit our immune system's abilities by placing too high a demand elsewhere." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Hypothyroidism can be caused by thyroid surgery (removal of part of the gland due to tumors or cysts), an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack the gland (Hashimoto's disease), radiation therapy to treat cancer or hyperthyroidism, medicarions, a piruirary disorder, or an iodine deficiency. Most cases of hypothyroidism are not present at birth, but develop in adults. Advanced hypothyroidism may cause severe complications." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Among 20,000 women taking 600 IU of natural vitamin E every other day for 10 years, there was no apparent significant reduction in risk for cancer or major cardiovascular events (heart attack, nonfatal stroke, and death from cardiovascular disease). Another recent study found that 400 IU or more of vitamin E a day might actually increase the risk of heart failure, causing some experts to caution people to limit or stop taking vitamin E altogether. How could this popular antioxidant increase such risks, much less fail to offer hoped-for protection?" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"When the cystic duct, which carries bile from the gallbladder to the small intestine, becomes blocked, or obstructed, the resulting symptoms are referred to as a gallbladder attack. During an attack, most patients experience pain in the mid-upper or right-upper sec- Gallstones, made of cholesterol, are so common in women, middle-aged and beyond, that they are almost "normal." That is, "normal" for people eating a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet. tion of the abdomen, often radiating to the right shoulder blade." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.)

"The culminating instruction of the long series of rites is the release of the boy's own hero-penis from the protection of its foreskin, through the frightening and painful attack upon it of the circumciser.58 Among the Arunta, for example, the sound of the bull-roarers is heard from all sides when the moment has arrived for this decisive break from the past. It is night, and in 84 Supra, p. 11. 55 W. Lloyd Warner, A Black Civilization (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1937), pp. 260-285. 56 "The father [i.e." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Luke was getting clobbered by the droid, until, at the point of total frustration, Obi-Wan blindfolds him and has him learn to extend his feelings through the agency of the Force so that he can sense the droid's attack before it actually occurs. At first, Luke gets the worst end of the battle. Then his mind calms and he begins to feel a connection with the movements of the droid. Soon he anticipates and blocks the droid's attack, successfully employing the force to guide his unconscious intuitive responses." - Richard Bartlett, Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation (Get the book.)

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