Archive for August, 2008

Cardiovascular Disease Remains Number 1 Killer – Stop The Madness!

The CDC reports that cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the number one killer – in 2005 over 900,000 lives were lost that’s 2,400 deaths a day.  That’s more lives than cancer, HIV/AIDS, and accidents combined!

They also point out that eighty million Americans (nearly 1 in 3 people in this country) have not just one but several [...]

Lowering Cholesterol Early In Life Can Save Lives

A team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician-researchers is proposing that aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease. They state that with a large body of evidence proving that low cholesterol levels equate with [...]