CHICAGO - A large study offers the strongest evidence yet that a diet the government recommends for lowering blood pressure can save people from heart attack and stroke.

Researchers followed more than 88,000 healthy women for almost 25 years. They examined their food choices and looked at how many had heart attacks and strokes. Those who fared best had eating habits similar to those recommended by the government to stop high blood pressure.

The plan, called the DASH diet, favors fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk and plant-based protein over meat.

Women with those eating habits were 24 percent less likely to have a heart attack and 18 percent less likely to have a stroke than women with more typical American diets.

Those are meaningful reductions since these diseases are so common. About two in five U.S. women at age 50 will eventually develop cardiovascular disease, which includes heart attacks and strokes. Women in the study were in their mid-30s to late 50s when the research began in 1980.

Previous research has shown this kind of diet can help prevent high blood pressure and cholesterol, which both can lead to heart attacks.

The new study appears in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine.

People might think, “I don’t have high blood pressure, so I don’t have to follow it,” said Simmons College researcher Teresa Fung, the study’s lead author. However, the results suggest, she said, that “even healthy people should get on it.”

About 15,000 women in the study had diets that closely resembled the low blood pressure diet. They ate about twice as many fruits, vegetables and grains as the estimated 18,000 women whose diets more closely resembled typical American eating habits.

Although the study only followed women, Fung said men would probably get similar benefits from the approach.

The study was limited because it merely tracked the women and their habits for 24 years. That’s a less rigorous method than randomly assigning equal groups of women different diets and comparing results. But that would be extremely difficult to do for such a long time.

Given that limitation, Dr. Laura Svetkey, director of Duke University’s hypertension center, said the study provides the best evidence yet of important long-term benefits from a low blood pressure diet.

“It’s nice to see research that really is aimed at helping people with prevention in a very practical way,” Svetkey said. She noted that the DASH diet, which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, is available free on the National Institutes of Health Web site. The study was funded with NIH grants.

Dr. Nieca Goldberg, medical director of New York University’s Women’s Heart Program, said many patients would rather take a pill than adjust their eating habits. But, Goldberg said, “I always point out to my patients, if you make these changes in your lives, it could … keep you off medication” in the long run.

“There has to be a greater emphasis on the way we live our lives,” she said.

Garey Simmons

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Omega-3 makes headlines:

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“Omega-3 provides the necessary restoration of the oil needed to maintain a youthful and healthy appearance.” - Associated Content

“Getting Thin on Fats: Omega-3” - American Chronicle

“Adding omega-3 to statin therapy reduces triglyceride levels, without reasing LDL” - WebMD

“Omega-3s may reduce Alzheimer’s risk” - WebMD

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News reports flooding the media today are warning of a spike in cardiac arrests on Super Bowl Sunday based on a study done in Germany. Here is the English version of the article on Der Spiegel website: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,532397,00.html
I watched a lot of soccer during my time overseas. Sure it can be exciting but how many games end in Zero - Zero after hours of play?

From the Associate Press: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hi1ILD8350dVSzepnoFAffrVuRKQD8UGFG100
In case you don’t know it, Dr. Lori Mosca, director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital says:

_ Take medications as prescribed.

_ Avoid tobacco smoke and fatty meals.

_ Get plenty of sleep the night before.

_ Don’t over-exert yourself physically.

_ If you drink alcohol, limit yourself to one drink for a woman and two for a man.

_ Try “not to get too angry with the refs.”

Another report offers that men may beat their wives if their team loses. So watch out for that.

If it’s anything like the last game of the season played between these two teams, it should be a great game. My instinct tells me that one team will win and one team will lose. How dull it would be if it ended 0 - 0.

Since I was a Paramus NJ resident for a few years, I will root for the Giants. I think Eli has had a tough time this season and he has fought back and overcome a lot to be in the Super Bowl at all. The easy money says Brady, but that’s the cool thing, we just have to wait and see how it plays out, refs willing.

My real desire is that it stays close until the last few seconds. Then we can say, what a great game. And that’s really what’s important: having an enjoyable time with friends and family.

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Number 1 - Awareness:

These are the Controllable Coronary Artery Disease Contributing Factors. These are the factors that are under your control.

Raising awareness generally leads to positive gains.

•High blood pressure
•High blood cholesterol and triglycerides
•Cigarette smoke - Smokers have 2 to 4 times the risk of sudden death from a heart attack than non-smokers. Chronic exposure to second-hand smoke increases the risk of CAD.
•Obesity
•Physical inactivity
•Diet - A diet high in fats and carbohydrates increases the risk of CAD
•Diabetes
•Stress

Here’s the good News:
There are only three things that you have to keep track of in order to maintain heart health:
On a scale of 1-10, rate yourself
1. Your Nutritional Intake - How well do I eat?_____
2. Movement or Exercise - Do I get sufficient exercise daily?_____
3. Mental Health and Attitude. Am I generally a positive and stable person? ______

As you read through this series you will find over many bullet points that are categorized under these 3 broad areas. You may not be able to follow or even agree with all points, but you can remember and hopefully agree to keep track these 3 broad categories. Raising awareness generally leads to positive gains. If you lift your standards even by a few points in each of these 3 areas, then your overall heart health will improve. On a scale of 1 - 10 rate yourself in these 3 areas. If you exercise a little then maybe you are a 3. If you exercise daily give yourself an 8 or a 9. After you rate yourself, then read through the email series to follow and see if any of the suggestions or tips can help you raise your rating within a week. Not every suggestion is applicable to each one, but it’s a discussion and we are always welcome to your ideas, so let us hear from you.

There are links scattered throughout that will take you to much longer articles that bolster the points. Study what you can and what interests you.

The Starting Point: Awareness.

It’s true that U.S. heart disease deaths overall are down. From 1993 to 2003, cardiovascular disease death rates dropped 22.1 percent.But more than 910,000 Americans still die of heart disease annually, according to the American Heart Association. And more than 70 million Americans live every day with some form of heart disease, which can include high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, stroke, angina (chest pain), heart attack and congenital heart defects.
Heart Disease is still the number 1 killer in the USA. Heart Disease: That’s the bad news. The question is “Why?” “Some 7 million Americans suffer from coronary heart disease (CHD), the most common form of heart disease. This type of heart disease is caused by a narrowing of the coronary arteries that feed the heart.”CHD is the number one killer of both men and women in the U.S. Each year, more than 500,000 Americans die of heart attacks caused by CHD.” The above is true! The actual number of deaths comes much closer to 1,000,000 when you include heart disease, stroke and the related problems. While in Iceland, they hardly know the meaning of heart disease. Statistically, their incidence of heart disease is near nil. Let’s learn from those who have the results we want. This fact alone warrants that we take time to review some simple things that are just common sense. While this report may take a light-hearted attitude at times, know this is serious business. All the same, by making light of and not being serious all the time, we can win a lot of smaller battles in the great war for truth and honesty in health and life style issues. Ours is to approach problems the natural way and see if there is a nutritionally sound way of dealing with a problem rather than putting going for the symtom relieving pharmaceutical. This article doesn’t pretend to be medically underwritten or totally scientific or address acute health issues. While we in North America have the best acute health care system in the world, we are not in agreement with addressing symptoms without looking deeper into the root causes of problems and heart health issues:
Root Causes:
•Junk nutrition
•Lack of exercise
•Stress (Poor Mental Health Discipline)

Good News: There is enough information here to give you
3 Magic Potions!
This is what we want to “sell” you on:

• Good Nutrition

• Good Exercise

• Good Mental Discipline

The Goal: Keep Your Ticker Ticking for a very Long Time!

Pharmaceutical drugs are sometimes necessary and especially in emergency care can save lives. I personally believe all the hype you hear on the TV about pharmaceutical drugs, especially statins. Did you know Lipitor is the most profitable and best selling drug in history? I view those commercials are desensitizing and meant to scare you into unusual behavior like telling your doctor what to do. The bottom line is important in any business, but when the bottom line takes precedence over what’s best for the person, then we as individual need to be very involved in the decision making process.

Pay close attention to all their warnings and contraindications being read against the backdrop of smiling, happy people enjoying life without a care in the world; when it says it increases the chances of cancer or other diseases, I mute the volume
or change channels. As my New Yorker friends say, “Forget about it!” Let’s suffice it to say there may very well be holistic or alternative ways to deal with a health problem
and treating the symptom rather than the cause may not be the best way except in an emergency.

The Wellness Revolution is here to stay and we have the “new” neural network of the Internet to use for research and for finding alternatives. Here is a case in point excerpted from Independent Media: This article is being quoted for educational purposes not for any political leanings left or right or otherwise.
Pharmaceutical Commercials - Off the Airwaves!
author: North Portlander
Heavy television and radio advertising is expensive. Since our government now allows pharmaceutical companies to develop, purchase and air expensive commercials, guess who they pass the cost on to? And that’s something we don’t need when medications in the USA are already too expensive for many to afford.

Pharmaceutical ads . . . out of control. In the past, when they were banned from television and radio, the promotional campaigns of pharmaceutical companies were directed towards doctors and hospitals which makes sense. Consumers can’t buy this stuff off the shelf at the drugstore; it can only be purchased through prescription. That means that commercials push consumers to hound their medical providers for medications that may not only be inappropriate, but actually dangerous when compared to ways of healthy living (exercise, good nutrition, eating the proper amounts of food) which are often as effective in heading off problems. It’s not good for the consumer and it seeks to second-guess the medical profession.

One recent commercial is particularly annoying. Lipitor has recruited Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart to hawk its product. Jarvik lacks credibility for several reasons. First, his kind of science represents “last resort” medicine while Lipitor is supposed to head off high cholesterol and prevent heart attacks and heart disease (and that may be questionable; it has been proven to introduce other problems in some patients).

Secondly, Jarvik’s heart was not the roaring success it was cracked up to be. Twenty years ago when Barney Clark became the first recipient, he was never able to leave the hospital. He had to be kept on blood thinners to prevent clots and strokes and suffered from them anyway. He finally died of multiple organ failure.

Jarvik was forced from the company he worked withand retired from public view. He started another business with a more modest goal that did not involve the production of artificial hearts; rationale for development of the current product, the Jarvik 2000, a thumb-sized heart pump came, “. . . from the understanding that people want a normal life and just being alive is not good enough,” said Jarvik.

The commercials themselves contains some curious faux pas: The most recent one appears to take place in the sweeping futuristic lobby of a medical facility. But despite the fake signs and people walking around in lab coats, the location (as a blogger recently noted) is easily recognized as the new addition to The Brooklyn Museum of Art. The voiceover in both commercials hails Jarvik as “the inventor of the artificial heart.” He isn’t, however, and why he didn’t insist that this be corrected is unknown. More correctly, he invented the first permanently implantable artificial heart. Although the invention was called the Jarvik 7, it was developed with the aid of a partner, William J. Kolff. Paul Winchell first invented the artificial heart and donated it the University of Utah. Any improvements were probably based on Mr. Winchell’s original heart.

Finally, Jarvik says, “The average heart beats two billion times.” If the average heart beats 2 billion times and we assume an average heart beats at 72 pulses per minute then - according to the commercial - the average heart beats for only 52.9 years. The
last I heard, the life expectancy of an American was somewhere around 70. If a couple of commercials about a product can be so full of interesting errors, do you think it’s possible
that large multinational pharmaceutical companies just might lie to us about other things as well?(End of Article )

I just wonder at the medical-educational system and their reliance on pharmaceutical companies to underwrite and support it to the point that alternatives to invasive techniques are not brought to light. One of my doctor friends told me he had all of 12 hours of instruction in nutrition and 0 hours on prevention in his 8 years of medical studies. At one point he had to reject that traditional model and start his own
research in his chosen medical profession. He is now helping people to overcome toxic metals poisoning. In one study in which I participated 750 test results showed 55% of persons with serious toxicity, 40% with slight elevations and only 5% were in the safe zone.

Our bottom line is that it is okay to question doctors and make sure your health choices and decisions are well thought out, researched and that it is really your decision. Afterall, it’s your body and your health.

Back to the heart health issues, did you know there is a statin like and very effective herbal supplement that lowers cholesterol very rapidly? It’s called red rice yeast and it’s
the basis of the pharmaceutical statins but it’s non-toxic and there are no reports of side effects other than possible muscle cramping for which we always recommend CoQ10. Red rice yeast has been used in Chinese medicine for 6000 years. It’s $19.95 for a month’s supply. I don’t recommend it as a first course as we will discuss later, Omega-3s are the best protection from heart attacks, stroke, arrythmias, blood clotting, etc.
But for those that must lower cholesterol quickly this is an alternative method.

Here are Two Attitude Adjusters:
Find Out the Truth about cholesterol and heart disease by reading

• Dr Enig’s article about the history of statins and cholesterol and

• Read The Blaylock Wellness Report and Dr. Russell Blaylock’s opinion about statins. Edited by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

  Raising your awareness by itself will point you in the right direction. Next email - Part II - The Role of Mental Fitness in the Fight for Optimal heart health. Next we get you moving along the right path.

   

Recommended by Cardiovascular Surgeon, Dr. Frederic Vagnini, M.D., FACS

In a recent study published in the Lancet medical journal, 18,645 people were randomly assigned to receive omega-3 fatty acids every day, plus a statin (cholesterol reducing drug). Another group was given a statin alone.

After 4 1/2 years, the researchers found a 19% reduction in major coronary events including sudden cardiac death, among patients taking omega-3. Patients taking omega-3 also had 19% fewer non-fatal events—including non-fatal heart attack, unstable angina and coronary revascularization—than people taking statins alone.

The study shows that taking the omega-3 fatty acids with a statin can greatly reduce your chance for heart disease. Omega-3 is one of the most beneficial nutrients you can include in your diet. In addition to the cardiovascular benefits, omega-3 has also been found to help improve memory and brain function, reduce allergies, improve mood, reduce symptoms of PMS and improve skin and hair health.

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“Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to be quite beneficial for triglyceride reduction, arrhythmias,irregular heartbeat and to help reduce the incidence of sudden cardiac death. I recommend Res-Q® 1250 to all of my patients who take medication to reduce their cholesterol.This product is great for everyone who is concerned about heart health.”

Editor’s Note: CoQ10 is another supplement that can offset some of the negative effects of statins. Statins reduce cholesterol production in the liver. But they also reduce the production of CoQ10 a catalyst needed by the body for production of energy in the muscles (including the heart muscle) CoQ10 is contained in Res-Q Cell Power.

Another important distinction to understand is that statin pharmaceutical drugs were “discovered” from studying a chinese herb called red rice yeast. This herb has been used for 6000 years in China. It is sold as a dietary supplement on our website for $19.95. We have a long list of clients who have successfully used red rice yeast to bring their total cholesterol down below 200 in a very short amount of time. We always recommend CoQ10 with red rice yeast. Red Rice Yeast.

Gifts of Heart Health

Things we talked about:
-Omega-3s
-Mike Ciell, Unified Theory of Heart Disease
-Vitamin C, nature’s statin
-Move your body

I was reviewing my notes and came across the name of Mike Ciell, the pharmacologist and inventor I met at the Natural Supplements Trade show in October. He was the one who helped me to get a better handle on the whys and wherefores of Omega-3s. Well, in my notes there was a website that he posted an article on. I have borrowed the article and it’s well worth the read.

Did you know there were “other” theories of heart disease besides (lipid) cholesterol theory?

Unified Theory of Heart Disease

After reading this, I can tell you, you will want to be getting more than 60mgs of Vitamin C per day. (I am now taking 1200 mgs. 20X more than the recommeded dose. I am not trying to stave off scurvy, I have bad genes and this really helps. Mike calls it Nature’s statin.)

Oh, I signed up to run in a 5 mile race on December 15th in Baltimore. Everyone thinks its the Celtic Solstice celebration but really its my birthday and I figure I can run the 5 miler with the older crowd. Waddle, waddle, jog, jog, walk, breathe.

I have been doing the run/walk/run thing about 3.5 miles every other day. I am sure the momentum of 3000 people joining me on my birthday will carry me through. I will take plenty of Res-Q 1250 and Vitamin C that day, as I do every other day.

When I was 14 I ran the mile in 7 minutes. Who decided to make the mile so long that it now takes me 12 - 13 minutes? And that’s only the first mile. Jog, jog, jog. Ugh. But it feels really good when it’s over.

Take plenty of Omega-3s and Vitamin C every day. Shake that bottle of water before drinking it. The water molecules will thank you. Get up off the couch, park far away from the mall, walk a lot, jog a little. Breathe. Enjoy the season.

So I am glad I reviewed my notes. I will get in touch with Mike. I have some ideas for a new project that I want his help on.

As always,

Choose Health!

Garey Simmons

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