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High Blood Pressure

Learning to Live Without It
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Aspirin Ineffective and Dangerous

Aspirin, Coumadin and Plavix are widely used drugs, but that does not mean they are safe or effective.  

A study conducted in the United Kingdom in 2004 involved 279 participants from the Warfarin/Aspirin Study in Heart Failure*.  The participants were divided into three...
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Family and Children, Healthy Diet and Lifestyle, Bone, Joint, Connective Tissue, and Rheumatic Disease, Diabetes and Thyroid Diseases, Cardiovascular, Oncology

True Health Care is A Proper Education

One out of two Americans gets heart disease and half of those die instantly from their first heart attack. One out of three dies of cancer. One out of eight women gets breast cancer and one out of six men gets prostate cancer. Roughly one out of ten middle-aged Americans has diabetes, and among...
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Cardiovascular, Cardiovascular

Reversing Heart Disease with Diet

I would like to introduce you to my friend Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., a man you will be hearing a lot more about in coming years. Having won a gold medal (Yale Crew team) in the 1956 Olympics, Dr. Esselstyn quickly advanced to a distinguished career in surgery at the renowned Cleveland Clinic...
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Cardiovascular

Venous Insufficiency and Varicose Veins: Overview and Risk Factors

Chronic venous insufficiency is a common medical problem, with symptoms ranging from mildly unsightly veins to recurrent skin infections and ulcers that require hospitalization. An estimated 25 percent of the U.S. adult population has some degree of varicose veins and up to 5 percent have advanced...
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Drugs, Treatments, & Supplements, Cardiovascular

Zetia Safety Issues

Zetia is a popular drug (close to $5 billion in sales for 2007) prescribed for people with elevated cholesterol.  It is often prescribed along with other cholesterol-lowering medications, and is an ingredient, along with Zocor, in Vytorin, another best-selling cholesterol-lowering drug....
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Drugs, Treatments, & Supplements, Cardiovascular

Trasylol

Bayer AG recently agreed to take Trasylol off the market after studies showed that it increased death rates in patients.  The drug, which has been approved for use by the FDA since 1993, is used to reduce excessive bleeding before heart surgery.  

The most recent study was...
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Cardiovascular

Deep Venous Thrombosis: Symptoms and Risk Factors

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is a common medical syndrome that affects 600,000 individuals per year. It is associated with blood clots that form in the extremities. Although it is most often found in the legs, DVT can also occur in the upper extremities, especially in hospitalized patients with...
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by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health.  As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

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Sometimes the most elegant solution is the most simple. Why plant-based nutrition? Why not? Why develop heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? The epidemic of chronic, degenerative disease that is sweeping the western world can not only be stopped, it can be reversed. The power lies in the hands of the consumer, in the choices we make about what to put on our plates.