How to slash heart disease risk by fifty percent
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It is a disturbing fact that more than half of all men, women and children will succumb to some type of cardiovascular disease, a fact made even more startling because these deaths are fully preventable by following simple dietary and lifestyle modifications. Overweight and obesity, coupled with risk factors including hypertension, excess blood sugar and elevated levels of oxidized cholesterol combine to dramatically increase the risk of heart disease. Once relatively uncommon, congestive heart failure diagnoses are rising at an unprecedented rate as the heart becomes overworked from excessive body weight, vascular dysfunction, continual surges of hydrogenated fats and sugars into the bloodstream and lack of physical activity. Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina, publishing the results of their work in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, have determined that simultaneously controlling your high blood pressure and high cholesterol may cut your risk for heart disease by half or more.
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