Does Lowering Your Bad Cholesterol Levels Eliminate Your Heart Disease Concerns?

Dr. Dwight Lundell is a heart surgeon who has seen more than his fair share of heart disease.  He knows plenty about the patients he cuts open, and he says that cholesterol is not the concern.

If Dr. Lundell says that lowering cholesterol is NOT your answer, you owe it to yourself to find out why.

Over 25% of the population is taking statin medications because they are VERY concerned about the health of their heart due to bad cholesterol numbers.  There is also a push to begin prescribing these drugs to otherwise healthy people without elevated cholesterol levels.

If statins prevent heart disease, why is heart disease increasing year after year and kills more people than every other cause of death combined? Read more

Can You Really Lower Cholesterol Naturally?

Should you try to lower cholesterol naturally, or make life simple and take the pill your doctor prescribes and forget it?

That little pill sure seems a whole lot easier than making big changes in diet and exercise, doesn’t it?

Life is so busy!  There just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day.  Do you have time to spend on changing your life?

Doesn’t taking a pill sound easier?

Do you know that lowering your cholesterol will NOT reduce your chance of dying of a heart attack?

Seriously!  If you are concerned about dying because your cholesterol level is too high, you need to know that just getting that number down, is no guarantee that you are safe.

Taking a pill to lower your cholesterol will NOT improve your health!

Cholesterol drugs come with some VERY undesirable side effects! Read more

Is American Heart Month Inspiring Your Low Cholesterol Diet?

A healthy heart is truly something to celebrate!

Any inspiration to improve your diet is a good thing.

However, if you are planning to make a contribution to the American Heart Association in honor of American Heart Month, please reconsider.

This “non-profit” organization is so busy supporting the pharmaceutical companies and the “drug it chop it out mentality”, that they have lost site of the fact that diet and lifestyle are the way to reduce heart disease.

Diet and lifestyle do get a lot of lip service from the American Heart Association, but the cash is spent largely on promoting the profit of drugs and surgery.

With the type of money that is available to the American Heart Association, they should be ashamed of their half hearted effort to support the average American on their journey of change.

Change isn’t easy.

It is much easier to build hype around cholesterol lowering drugs and rake in huge profits.

Efforts to educate and facilitate change will take more than a one day event, or even a month of events.  Support needs to be ongoing.  Bringing people together, in an effort to build community is the answer to reducing heart disease.

Change is just too difficult in isolation.

Does the American Heart Association have enough money to support Boys and Girls Clubs, so that kids get active early in life?

Do they have enough money to supply churches and community centers with dried beans and grains?

How about supplementing the electric bill for lung disease and heart failure patients when they can’t afford to operate their home oxygen machines?

How about organizing walking and bike riding clubs, or supporting local organizations to do it?

You need support all year, not just for the month of February!

Diet and lifestyle change is a process.  Talking about it, and creating “awareness”, stops short of actual HELP.

The American Heart Association has an army of volunteers.

Every American, including this army of volunteers, should be asking the American Heart Association just where their money is spent.

They claim to have “invested” over 543 million dollars from 2005 to 2006.  The money, they say, was spent first on research and professional and public education, and then in “advocacy” and community service programs.

Americans need to hold this “charity” accountable.  They CAN do more, and they SHOULD do more!

Want to celebrate American Heart Month? Read more

Food Matters!

Have you seen the trailer for the new movie?  I stumbled across it on You Tube and began jumping for joy.

At LAST an effort to get the message out!

You are what you eat!

You are killing yourself with the food choices you make!

If you aren’t operating out of a victim mentality, you should be able to hear the message.

Listen UP!  The length and quality of your life depend on it!

Food Matters!

Now click on a category in the right had column and find out more information that will change your life.  READ!

Health is about taking care of yourself.

NOW is the time to change your ways and do what is best for yourself and your family.

If you are already putting this information into practice, then reach someone who isn’t and tell them about this new movie.  Let’s hope CHANGE is coming.

Relaxing, breath building, and oxygen with exercise matter!

AND

Food Matters!

The trailer is enough to open your eyes, but the Food Matters DVD is really a learning experience.

You and your family NEED this information!

Get your copy NOW!

Many blessings,

Carrie

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

1. Relax and Release tension
2. Take deeep breaths
3. Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Have You Heard that Vitamin Pills Won’t Help Heart Disease, but Cholesterol Drugs Are Magic?

Don’t believe the hype. There is no magic pill for health.  If you are not eating fruits and vegetables and getting plenty of exercises, you are not building health.

Real hope for heart disease isn’t in pill form, though many supplements can be helpful.  Would you like trustworthy advice from your health care provider?

The problem is that the most beneficial things you can do for your heart and your health are free. If you only listen to sources that want your dollars, you will pay dearly.

You have the power to build your health and vitality! No matter what your current state of health, you can feel better if you nurture yourself.

The researchers who first impressed the world with cholesterol-lowering drug studies were careful to point out that the wonderful benefits of their study could be achieved by lowering cholesterol with diet and lifestyle changes.

There is no money to be made in advising people to eat better.  Drugs are far more profitable.  However, cholesterol-lowering drugs bring along undesirable side effects that could be far worse than the benefits they apparently offer.

If you take Statin drugs, are you also paying attention to your diet?

The drug companies say that you should be using the drugs in combination with diet and lifestyle changes.

Did your doctor spend time talking with you about HOW to change your diet before he gave you a prescription that could CAUSE heart failure?

The studies credit reduction of CRP, which is a measure of inflammation, as the reason that many more people should be using Statin drugs.

Reducing inflammation within your body is definitely health building.  How can you do that without risking undesirable side effects?

Increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables in your diet will reduce inflammation, thereby reducing your risk of heart attack and stroke.

The only reason to advise drug use BEFORE giving serious effort to support diet and lifestyle change, is TO MAKE MONEY.

Is there a magical way to build health, and reduce the risk of ALL forms of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke?

I wouldn’t say that it is magic, but it is simple and easy to do. Read more

What the Hell is Heart Health?

I mean, really, what exactly does that mean?

Well to most people, that means that the doctor said your cholesterol level is low, and he DID NOT tell you that you have heart disease.

No news is good news, right?

Well, not exactly.  You can’t call that heart health, because the first sign of heart disease could be a heart attack.  And for women, that first heart attack is devastating.  Most women don’t survive the first year, following a heart attack.

The statistics do NOT look good for women and heart surgery either.  That is why the drugging surgical side of heart disease doesn’t know how to help women with this disabling disease, for the most part.

This is one reason that so many women are not diagnosed sooner, when lifestyle changes are more quickly beneficial.

If your doctor doesn’t tell you, that you should be concerned, then where will you hear it? Read more

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