Heart Disease

Treat Inflammation, Not Cholesterol, For A Healthy Heart Health Alert #240 Every year, conventional doctors write more than 50 million prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medications. That number will triple in the next few years in response to the stricter guidelines.1 This is a huge mistake. These drugs will not improve your

What Bill Clinton’s Doctors Missed Health Alert #236 For weeks the media called former President Bill Clinton’s emergency heart surgery a “wake up call for baby boomers.” They did an excellent job of bringing heart disease to the forefront of public attention.1 But once again reports focused on cholesterol as

Drugs Meant to Protect Actually Increased Danger Health Alert #233   If you take medicine for a heart problem or high-blood pressure, you may be putting yourself at a risk even your doctor isn’t aware of. After the publication of a major heart study promoting the use of a diuretic

How’s Your Heart? Health Alert #220   Heart disease remains America’s biggest killer. Do you have a healthy heart? Or is your ticker in danger of giving out? Your Health Alert today will give you an easy way of scoring your heart health. Answer each question by choosing the statement

Another One Bites The Dust Health Alert #219 After years of drug company reassurances that their new miracle arthritis drug, Vioxx, was safer than other anti-inflammatories, pharmacies have yanked it off their shelves. If you followed news reports, you know that studies proved the drug greatly increases the risk of

High-Tech Rescues Your Heart Health Alert #60 High-tech heart gadgets could save you from dying from a heart attack. As you learned in Health Alert 53, the signs of a heart attack aren’t always clear. New technology could send help before you even realize your heart is in trouble. For

Eat Your Heart Healthy Health Alert #59 It is simpler than you think to choose the right foods to maintain a healthy heart. • Keep your diet natural • Eat “good” fats • Avoid refined carbs • Eat plenty of lean protein In this letter, I will explain my plan for a heart healthy

Exercise Your Heart Really Needs Health Alert #58 Here’s a fact missed by just about everyone. To keep your heart beating longer and stronger, long duration endurance training is the last thing that it needs. You will do much more for your heart by exercising in brief spurts. Ten minutes