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?

• Start walking with a friend.  You are less likely to skip it when someone else is counting on you.
• Choose lots of red when picking out your 5 daily servings of fruits and vegies.  Your heart will love you for it!
• Supplement your diet with vitamins (especially C and D), minerals, and omega 3 fatty acids.
• Eat food in as close to a natural state as possible.  (fresh fruits and vegetables, oats and beans are a great part of your low cholesterol diet)
• Spend time in quiet stillness daily.  Learn to release tension.
• Breathe deeply.
• Drink clean pure water all day everyday.  (add fresh lemon juice to make it easier to absorb)
• Get a daily dose of sunshine.  (AND supplement Vit. D if necessary)
• Laugh, laugh, laugh.

By the time American Heart Month is over you will have developed good habits and a low cholesterol diet that will stick with you.

Creating positive new habits is really something to celebrate.

Did you know that exercise (yes exercise!) can REALLY help to maintain a healthy cholesterol level?

Get your copy of The Cholesterol Lie and arm yourself with powerful information you can trust from a Heart Surgeon who isn’t afraid to tell the truth.

Be well!

Many blessings,

Carrie

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