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It is always good to discover another natural cholesterol cure.

Researchers may have found a safe, natural, and “appealing”alternative to cholesterol-lowering drugs.

A class of compounds found in citrus fruit peels called polymethoxylated flavones (PMFs) has the potential to lower
cholesterol more effectively than some prescription drugs.

And without side effects.

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This study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, examined the effects of PMFs on animals with diet-induced high cholesterol.

When these animals were given the same diet plus one percent PMFs, their blood levels of total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) were reduced by 19 to 27% and 32 to 40% , respectively.

To get the benefits of this cholesterol-lowering compound, grate the peel from a well-scrubbed organic orange or lemon.

You can add a tablespoon or so to your favorite tea, salad dressing, yogurt, and many recipes.

You’ll do your heart (and taste buds!) a favor.

Your health,

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Yeh, I’m on the heart failure or shall I say health band wagon again. But it is serious and largely preventable, I know this might sound corny but it is a serious as a heart attack.

So let’s get cracking what can you do today to destroy your heart:

1. Don’t have a regular doctor who knows you, your history and your special requirements, somebody who knows your medical challenges best when it is emergency time.
2. Don’t have breakfast, by breakfast I mean a healthy protein smoothie, not a bowl of sugar laden supposed healthy cereal. Fresh fruit is always great. Not having breakfast prevents your metabolism from firing up properly, it reduces your bodies chances of burning fat.
3. Do engage in major road rage on your way to dropping the kids at school or work, it does wonders for your stress levels and gets your heart and adrenalin levels shooting through the roof.
4. Don’t drink water but instead “quench” your thirst with sodas and coffee, there goes your elimination system, I bet you’re feeling pretty sluggish by now.
5. Don’t have a healthy snack like almonds (unsalted) during the course of the morning to help your metabolism burn all those unwanted deadly fats.
6. Don’t have a healthy wholegrain sandwich with roast beef for lunch, instead grab a burger and fries or even better a insulin inducing pastry.
7. Do have numerous cups of coffee during the course of the day and even add a bit of alcohol just to take the edge off all the office politics.
8. Do become a couch potato when you get home, watch the game, eat chips and drink beer.
9. Don’t do any exercise your body is coping horribly with all the abuse you are heaping on it.
10. Don’t take the time out to relax and spend with your family and friends, don’t tell your loved one you love them and mean it, don’t get out into nature and enjoy the sunlight.

Alarming isn’t it? How many of these 10 things do you do every day, without giving your bodies a thought at all.

That is until it is to late.

Don’t become a statistic, live a long and healthy life instead.

Download This Nifty Heart Failure Risk Calculator.

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Time to find out! Have a look at this very informative video put out by Fight Against Heart Failure.

You’ll discover in the video that it is treatable and even preventable if you look after yourself.

Things to you can do today are eating healthy (cut out junk food, high sodium content, sugar), eat more fresh food and oily fish like salmon. Quit smoking and excessive drinking (a glass or two of red wine is actually beneficial to your heart.

Start a moderate exercise program, it will strengthen your heart, improve your circulation and help you to relax. It is very important to cut out as much stress as possible.

Your health

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Hi there,

I found this very interesting article on heart failure trends in the USA.
As you’ll notice there has been a steady increase in the levels which the study attributes to and aging population, there has also been a slight decrease in the mortality rates.

The fact is that apart from genetics the major cause of heart disease is a bad lifestyle, it is up to you to exercise, drink more water, cancel out stress and improve your diet e.g. less fast/fried foods and more fresh foods.

DURHAM, N.C. – Conventional wisdom holds that as the U.S. population ages, the incidence of heart failure will continue to rise. A new study from Duke University Medical Center challenges part of that assumption, however, finding that heart failure is actually declining among the very elderly. Yet the number of heart failure cases overall continues to rise.

“Heart failure is largely a disease of aging, so we were surprised by the findings,” says Dr. Lesley Curtis, a health services researcher at Duke and lead author of the study appearing in the February 25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Carefully documenting the incidence of a disease – the rate at which it occurs – and the prevalence – how many people have it at any one time – is critically important, because projections have direct bearing upon planning and resources needed for future health care.

Curtis and her colleagues examined data from a five percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries’ claims between 1994 and 2003 and found that during that period, 622,789 patients
were diagnosed with heart failure.

While the incidence of heart failure fell most sharply among those aged 80 to 84 years old, from 57.5 to 48.4 per 1000 person years, it also rose from 17.5 cases to 19.3 cases per 1000 person-years among those aged 65 to 69 years old.

The study also found that the total number of Americans living with heart failure steadily increased over the ten-year study period, from about 140,000 to 200,000, with more men living with the disease than women.

“From all indications, heart failure will continue to be a major public health burden, consuming billions of dollars each year,” says Curtis. Nearly 5 million people in the U.S. suffer from heart failure, and even though mortality from the disease has fallen slightly, it remains a very serious problem. Nearly a third of those diagnosed with heart failure will die within one year, and
“that figure hasn’t budged over the last decade,” according to Curtis, who is also a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

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The study was funded by grants from the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Duke researchers contributing to the study include Drs. David Whellan, Adrian Hernandez and Kevin Schulman, from the Duke Clinical Research Center and Bradley Hammill, Kevin Anstrom and Alisa Shea, from the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics.

Sources: “EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS”! -Trends in heart failure - 25-February-2008

Also know your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, we are fortunate with all the advancements in alternative and conventional medicine our life expectancy has increased with between 10 and 40 years.

There are numerous natural cures for High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol available today, so there is no reasonable excuse for you to neglect your heart health.

Your health!

P.S. - For a great Free heart failure risk calculator go here.

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Life is precious! Andropause need not be a life sentence. So many of our problems are plagued with what if questions. What if I looked after my health? What if I quit smoking years ago? What if it is not to late to do something about it?

Through proper nutrition, natural supplementation, exercise and a positive attitude you can beat andropause. Problems like the lower levels of testosterone can often be boosted natrually with supplements like Tribulus terrestris, a lack of sex drive can always be cured with a little bit of romance, try it!