Now there is even more reason to stay on top of your heart health. Taking care of your heart may limit your risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

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For some, too much sodium in the diet may contribute to high blood pressure and fluid retention and aigher risk for heart attack. People with hypertension, or high blood pressure, are the ones more likely to develop these diseases.

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In order to understand why it is essential to lower your cholesterol, it is required that you first have a handle on what cholesterol is.

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Heart disease is perhaps the nation’s most prevalent killer of men and women and it may be one of the most easily preventable diseases of the modern civilization in the 40 to 70 age group.

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According to recent studies, it’s found that more than 8 million American women are currently living with some form of heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death of American women.

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The normal heart is a strong, muscular pump that continuously pumps about 2000 gallons of blood through the circulatory system each day. It does so by beating about 100,000 times. per day. It is about the size of your fist.

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Metabolic Syndrome represents a group of markers that increases your risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other pathologic states. People with the metabolic syndrome, have one and a half to three times the risk of getting cardiovascular disease compared to otherwise normal people. If there is associated diabetes, the risk goes up many times more. It is estimated by the American Heart Association, that 50 million American adults have it, and many of them don’t even know it. It is a true “silent epidemic.” Unfortunately, an alarming number of children also suffer from this syndrome.

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Those of us with unfavorable cholesterol scores are constantly bombarded with the importance of controlling LDL-HDL levels. Unfortunately, many of the drugs prescribed for cholesterol reduction can have serious side effects such as fatigue, muscle cramps, brain fog, etc. Trying a natural adjustment to your diet may be a better and less risky way to tame the cholesterol beast.

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An American dies every 30 seconds from cardiovascular disease - often in the form of a heart attack. That’s 3,500 people every day. In fact, chances are good that if you have two best friends, one of the three of you will die from cardiovascular disease.

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Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in American and in most parts of the world. Female hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been used in the recent past for reducing the risk of heart attacks and cutting down the risk of death in women with established heart disease. However, new data provides compelling evidence that HRT may actually make heart disease worse in women. On the other hand, since men suffer from earlier heart disease than women, it has been postulated that the male hormone, testosterone may increase the risk of heart disease. As a result, andropause, the male equivalent of menopause, has not been treated with male hormone replacement therapy, for heart disease prevention. Recent studies suggest that male hormone supplementation may be heart protective.

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