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"In determining the best plan of action, it is important that each woman is individually assessed for her heart disease risk. Utilizing a comprehensive medical history, physical examination, and selected laboratory and heart function testing, it is possible to assess a woman's risk for coronary artery disease and the risk of heart attacks. Based on this assessment, a strategy can be put in place utilizing lifestyle changes, nutritional and botanical supplements, and in some cases prescriprion medications to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Because of their older age, many of these women already had heart disease risk factors (abnormal blood lipids, hypertension), and some women had a history of heart disease. Some women in the WHI study were given Prempro, other women (who had had hysterectomies) were given Premarin alone, and the remainder were given placebos without any hormone content. The Prempro arm of the study was halted three years early (after only five years) because of a 26 percent increase in breast cancers and a 29 percent increase in heart attacks." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "As a woman ages, her risk of heart disease increases, and using hormones early on, before age sixty, lowers heart disease risk and lowers mortality despite a slightly higher risk of developing breast cancer if using synthetic hormones. These studies also found that drinking alcohol significantly increases the risk of breast cancer. • The HERS study tells us that when using oral, synthetic horse estrogen and synthetic progesterone over the age of sixty, there is no reduction in heart disease but there is an increased risk of blood clots and stroke." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"In 2003, a panel of experts convened by the American Heart Association and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the CRP blood test as a way of assessing heart disease risk. Researchers from leading institutions such as Harvard among many others have declared that CRP is a more reliable indicator of heart disease risk than cholesterol testing. CRP is produced in the liver and in the coronary arteries, and is then released into the bloodstream when the body is fighting inflammation. It is a marker for inflammatory activity, but it does not cause inflammation (Perry, S, 2006)." - Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.)

"For example, about half the people who die of heart attacks don't have the classic heart disease risk factors, such as high cholesterol, but they do have arteries that are hard and thick with chronic inflammation. Here's what we know now about autism and inflammation. Autism: The Inflammation Factor • Autism is closely linked to chronic, persistent inflammation of brain cells, or neuroinflammation. • The immune system triggers this brain inflammation. It does it through abnormal production of immune system messengers called cytokines and chemokines." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The effect of polyphenols in olive oil on heart disease risk factors: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med. 2006 Sep 5;145(5):333-341. Juan ME et al. Olive fruit extracts inhibit proliferation and induce apoptosis in HT-29 human colon cancer cells. /Nutr. 2006 Oct;136(10):2553-2557. Lee A, Thurnham DI, Chopra C. Consumption of tomato products with olive oil but not sunflower oil increases the antioxidant activity of plasma. Free Radical Biology & Medicine. 29:1051-1055; 2000. Owen RW et al. Olives and olive oil in cancer prevention. Eur / Cancer Prev. 2004 Aug;13(4):319-326. Onions www." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Whole grain foods and heart disease risk. J Am CollNutr. 2000 Iun;19(3 Suppl):291S-299S. Jensen MK, Koh-Banerjee P, Hu FB, Franz M, Sampson L, Gronbaek M, Rimm EB. Intakes of whole grains, bran, and germ and the risk of coronary heart disease in men. Am} Clin Nutr. 2004;80(6): 1492-1499. Johnsen NF, Hausner H, Olsen A, Tetens I, Christensen J, Knudsen KE, Overvad K, Tjonneland A. Intake of whole grains and vegetables determines the plasma entero-lactone concentration of Danish women. J Nutr. 2004 Oct;134(10):2691-2697. Mamiya T et al." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Having a fatty middle can signal metabolic syndrome, a cluster of diabetes and heart disease risk factors that includes insulin resistance, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglyceride levels, and low HDL (high-density lipoprotein or "good" cholesterol) levels. Indeed, people who are apple-shaped are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack than those who are pear-shaped—that is, carrying most of their fat in their buttocks." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"We know that exercisers can reduce heart disease risk as well as risk of diabetes, osteoporosis, colon cancer, and high blood pressure as well as other disease risks. The very good news is that these benefits can be enjoyed with a regular, moderate physical activity such as walking. It's easy to set and achieve goals when you exercise-walk, particularly with the help of a pedometer. In fact, research has demonstrated that walking is the chosen exercise among people who lose weight and subsequently maintain their healthy weight." Your goal on the SlimDown is to walk 30 minutes a day." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Glycemic control and coronary heart disease risk in persons with and without diabetes: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study. Arch Intern Med 2005 Sep 12; l65(l6):1910-6. Tapsell LC et al. Including walnuts in a low-fat/modified-fat diet improves HDL cholesterol-to-total cholesterol ratios in patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2004; 27:2777'-83. Trouillas P. The "making" of a parenchymal hematoma. An early coagulopathy and specific risk factors contribute to grave intracerebral bleeding after intravenous rtPA thrombolysis." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"These women were shown to have an improved quality of life, less bone loss, and reduced heart disease risk without an increase in breast cancer or clotting. Another French study of 54,000 women using estrogen (oral and transdermal) and synthetic or natural progesterone showed that the risk of breast cancer was increased after only two years in the group using synthetic progesterone. No increase was seen when natural progesterone was used. This study was updated, and even after eight years of treatment, there was no increase in the natural progesterone group." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Estriol and heart disease risk. Estriol has not been studied as extensively as conventional HRT in terms of its affect on the risk for heart disease; however, a few studies indicate positive effects of estriol, while others have found estriol to have no effect on blood cholesterol levels, a precursor of heart disease.150 There is no clear risk or benefit related to estriol and heart disease. Estriol and Bone Density. Estriol also has been minimally studied regarding its effects on bone density and loss; therefore, I do not use estriol to slow or prevent bone loss or to treat low bone density." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In the United States, bioidentical hormones are now available from drug companies, with hundreds of studies showing their efficacy in reducing heart disease risk factors, protecting women's uterine linings, and preventing waning bone densities. Studies using transdermal estrogen have not shown increases in blood clotting, as occurs with oral estrogen preparations (also discussed in chapter 9). In Europe, women are commonly treated with transdermal estradiol gels and natural progesterone, and there are many well-conducted studies proving their efficacy and safety." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Estrogen has favorable effects on several heart disease risk factors: HRT increases high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, decreases low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, reduces oxidation of LDL cholesterol, lowers uptake of LDL in blood vessels, binds to vascular estrogen receptors, reduces vascular tone, preserves endothelial function, increases prostacyclin release, decreases thromboxane A2 formation, decreases fibrinogen, reduces plasminogen activator inhibitor, and decreases fasting blood glucose and insulin." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "There are heart disease risk factors unique to women. These include oral contraceptive use, pregnancy, having had both ovaries removed, and premature menopause. Additional risk factors not related to gender include increased body fat, especially if it is in the abdominal area; history of smoking; being sedentary; diabetes mellitus; high blood pressure; poor lipid ratios; and family history. OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS Conventional and alternative medicine practitioners agree that, in most cases, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are directly related to diet and lifestyle." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Heart disease risk factors, diabetes, and prostatic cancer in an adult community. Am. J. Epidemiol. 129, 511-517. 182. Nilsen, T. I., and Vatten, L. J. (1999). Anthropometry and prostate cancer risk: A prospective study of 22,248 Norwegian men. Cancer Causes Control 10, 269-275. 183. Boland, L. L., Mink, P. J., Bushhouse, S. A., and Folsom, A. R. (2003). Weight and length at birth and risk of early-onset prostate cancer (United States). Cancer Causes Control 14, 335-338. 184. Friedenreich, C. M., McGregor, S. E., Courneya, K. S., Angyalfi, S. J., and Elliott, F. G. (2004)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "For example, in the Nurses' Health Study, relative to a woman with a BMI < 21 kg/m2, heart disease risk was 1.8 times greater in women with a BMI between 25 and 29 kg/m2 but 3.3 times greater for women with a BMI greater than 29 kg/m2 [9, 13]. Gender does not alter this relationship; therefore, the same cutoff points are used to define obesity (BMI > 30 kg/m2) and overweight (BMI 25.0-29.9 kg/m2) in both men and women [14]. 2. Waist Circumference The waist circumference as a measure of visceral adiposity can complement the BMI for assessing disease risk." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Effects of the hepatic lipase gene and physical activity on coronary heart disease risk. Am. J. Epidemiol. 158, 836-843. 268. St-Pierre, J., Miller-Felix, I., Paradis, M. E., et al. (2003). Visceral obesity attenuates the effect of the hepatic lipase -514C > T polymorphism on plasma HDL-cholesterol levels in French-Canadian men. Mol. Genet. Metab. 78, 31-36. 269. Todorova, B., Kubaszek, A., Pihlajamaki, J., et al. (2004)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The impact of lowering major coronary heart disease risk factors has been reported in a recent analysis demonstrating that approximately one-half of the decrease in CHD in the United States between 1980 and 2000 can be attributed to reductions in total cholesterol, blood pressure, and body mass index (BMI) [1]. The reduction in these major risk factors is due to lifestyle and behavioral interventions, as well as pharmacotherapy. Thus, diet can have a significant impact on CVD risk factors, and, consequently, healthy diet and lifestyle practices can markedly decrease the risk for CHD." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Alcohol: Consuming moderate amounts of alcohol, especially with meals, may reduce heart disease risk by increasing HDL levels and helping to move cholesterol deposits out of cells lining the artery walls. 7. Aerobic exercise: At least 30 minutes a day several days a week is the exercise prescription for raising HDL. 8. Smoking cessation: Kicking the habit may increase your HDL numbers a bit, too. 9. Shedding excess pounds: Being overweight or obese contributes to low HDL levels and is listed as one of eight causes of low HDL cholesterol by the NCEP." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "A recent study found that when people with elevated blood lipids snacked on almonds, their coronary heart disease risk fell significantly, probably due in part to the fiber and monounsaturated fat components of almonds. THE TROUBLE WITH TRIGLYCERIDES Like measuring LDL cholesterol, taking note of triglyceride levels in the blood can shed light on heart health. People can have high triglyceride levels even when their cholesterol levels are normal. Blood triglycerides come mainly from the fat we eat in foods." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "Here's the fact that got my attention, though: In virtually all studies that examined the impact of nuts in our diet, nut consumption has been associated with a reduction in coronary heart disease risk. Each nut contains its own unique profile of phytochemicals, types of fatty acids, and types and amounts of fiber. It's no accident that the Portfolio study chose to use almonds. Almonds may improve cholesterol levels. Almonds (and most nuts) contain large amounts of oleic acid (a monounsaturated fatty acid), which may help raise HDL cholesterol and possibly lower LDL cholesterol." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "There's also some evidence that omega-3s may lower heart disease risk, and scientists continue to study their role in reducing cancer risk. Great sources include fish (especially coldwater fish like salmon, tuna, mackerel, trout, herring, and bluefish), ground flaxseed, and canola oil. Plant food sources include broccoli and other green leafy vegetables, kidney beans, cantaloupe, walnuts, soy, and pecans. Omega-3s, vitamin E, and niacin help lower cholesterol. Here's a perfect snapshot of food synergy." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"The triglyceride/HDL ratio is a revealing predictor of heart disease risk that is often underutilized. The lower your triglyceride level or the higher your HDL level, the smaller your ratio will be. People who have a high ratio of triglycerides to HDL cholesterol are at high risk of insulin resistance. The dietary and other lifestyle guidelines discussed in chapters 5 through 10 of this book can help you achieve healthy triglyceride and/or cholesterol levels." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Conventional wisdom would predict that the low-fat Dean Ornish diet would beat every other diet hands down on the heart disease risk score. Au contraire. All of these diets were roughly comparable in helping people lose weight.433 Many cardiologists were shocked to learn, however, that those following a high-protein, low-carbohydrate regimen ended up with a better score on heart disease risk factors than those following an Ornish-type low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. That is because the higher-fat diets raised good HDL cholesterol more than the Ornish approach." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"The body responds to the presence of trans fatty acids by raising the "bad" cholesterol (LDL) levels while lowering the "good" cholesterol (HDL) levels, thus increasing heart disease risk. In fact trans fatty acids have proven to be even more atherogenic than the saturated animal fats they compete against in the marketplace. Those who think they are making a healthy choice by buying margarine instead of butter are gravely mistaken. David and Annie Jubb write, "All cooked fat, and pig fat especially, is unable to combine with water, causing it to separate out and be stored in the body." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Glycemic control and coronary heart disease risk in persons with and without diabetes: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. Arch Intern Med. 2005 Sep 12;165(16):1910-6. Supplements for Diabetes Keep an eye on your blood sugar when you take any of these remedies with insulin because they may decrease your need for it. Seek professional help if you have concerns regarding your medications and these remedies. There are many useful supplements for diabetics. However, mainly chromium, vanadium, fish oil and gymnema act to stabilize blood sugar and indirectly help with cravings." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Numerous studies show a definite connection to heart disease risk, and those with the most serious infections are the ones at greatest risk. In 1998, the American Academy of Periodontology issued a strong warning that gum infections represent a "far more serious threat" to the health of millions of Americans than previously realized. They cited an increased risk for heart disease, stroke, and underweight births. Gum disease is an infectious, inflammatory condition caused by bacteria. The infections, which can last for decades, place enormous stress on the immune system." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"A component in cholesterol called apolipoprotein B (apoB) may be more closely linked to heart disease risk factors, and measuring apoB rather than LDL levels eliminates errors that can be caused by the size of the LDL particles. Small, dense LDL particles are more harmful than larger ones; thus, it would be nice to know how many small particles there are in the mix. But current tests do not differentiate for particle size or number." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"There is no relationship between blood cholesterol and heart disease risk in women over fifty or in men over seventy. Statins given to these individuals are not only wasted, but expose them to risk of side effects that isn't outweighed by benefit to their hearts. • A survey of South Carolina adults found no correlation of blood cholesterol levels with "bad" dietary habits, such as use of red meat, animal fats, fried foods, butter, eggs, whole milk, bacon, sausage, and cheese. Does that sound like heresy, or what?" - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

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