Women have better natural protection against atherosclerosis. If you are a woman, you are less likely to suffer from a heart attack or stroke until well after you pass the half century mark. That is when your protective female hormones give out, and you become as susceptible to the disease as men.
Can men take female hormones to protect themselves? They can, but if they do, they will develop a high voice, full enlarged breasts, and other feminine characteristics. As you can imagine, this approach is neither practical nor desired. Can anything else help? Yes, there is something that everybody can do without much trouble, and still get the benefits of improving their overall general health. In fact, it’s also very simple: choose foods and eat meals that will keep your blood fats down to normal levels.
Can you reverse damage done to your arteries by excessive fat? Only recently have medical research teams produced dependable evidence supporting that excessive fat in our diets increases the risk of heart disease. If you are past the age of thirty, you have probably already started wonder whether the harm done to your arteries is permanent, or if it is reversible. Right now, as our current level of research, we doctors cannot answer the question with certainty. However, we can say with hope that experiments have shown that the condition is reversible in animals. We have data that verifies cholesterol in the arteries is absorbed in adolescents, as proposed by Dr. Russell Holman and others. However, this metabolic gift disappears as we age. There are many qualified experts in this field who hypothesize that since atherosclerosis is reversible in animals, the same can be true for humans as well. However, we should be careful when drawing conclusions from animal testing, as their metabolism is quite different from ours.
Another question that patients often ask is: “Can you tell if I am already affected by this degenerative artery disease?” Unfortunately, there is not a test yet that can predict accurately whether you are vulnerable to such heart diseases. However, there is a test that does produce accurate results related to heart disease. If your doctor can detect a minimal amount of cholesterol in your blood, your risk of heart and blood vessel disease, such as heart attack or stroke, is quite low.
However, if there is enough of it, you face a greater chance of developing such disease. If you are over 30, you should have your doctor check these levels of cholesterol periodically, as part of your check-up. Many times middle-aged men are so involved in their fast-paced life that they dangerously neglect the importance of their own health. What is the solution for us? There have been countless studies on heart disease, but none have concluded that it is due to diet alone. However, they do support much of the information that I have acquired in my 25 years of practice and laboratory research. Together, these trials and studies are evidence that strongly advise that everyone in the United States to reduce his/her fat intake by 25 percent. If so, we can cut the number of heart-disease related deaths in half within two decades. Not only will it prevent deaths, but it will improve the overall well-being and overall health of everyone. Now, you may be wondering “How can I go about reducing the fat in my diet? Where do I begin?” In the following pages you will find a helpful guide; it includes low-fat meal plans and directions for using simple and inexpensive nutritional supplements that I use in my own practice to help my patients prevent heart attack, and to treat those who have already experienced one or more.
If you follow these directions carefully, you will not only add years to your life, but life to your years.
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