Doing One Thing Reduces Your Holiday Heart Attack Risk

Emily Lunardo says doing this one thing will reduce your heart attack risk during the holidays.

Did you know that there is a higher risk of heart attacks during the winter months, especially near the holidays? It’s sad but true. There is generally an influx of heart attacks between the months of November and March, and if you already have some cardiovascular factors, your risk can increase during this time.

While the holidays are associated with a great deal of stress, we shouldn’t forget that it’s also a joyful time. Yes, we’re running around, but we get to catch up with family and friends. The problem here is, these get-togethers often involve eating too much food.

Many people dread the holiday season because they inevitably put on extra weight. Being overweight or obese is a heart attack risk factor, so if you want to protect your heart you should manage your weight. Read more

Carbonated Drinks Increase Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

Carbonated beverages could increase the risk of heart attacks or strokes, according to researchers. This should not come as a big surprise since humans rarely if ever drank carbonated beverages until a century or so ago.  They aren't part of our natural diet.

Fizzy drinks may be linked to a higher risk of heart attacks, researchers claim.

They say high consumption of carbonated soft drinks may lead to an increased rate of heart disease and strokes.

Japanese scientists looked at the drinking habits of 800,000 patients who had to be resuscitated after having a cardiac arrest out of hospital during a six-year period. Read more

The Man Who Cured Heart Disease Naturally

Bill Sardi reviews the work of a man who cured heart disease with a natural molecule 20 years before cholesterol drugs!

His name: Dr. Lester Morrison.

His qualifications: Director and Research Professor, Institute for Arteriosclerosis Research, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine

Author: Coronary Heart Disease and the Mucopolysaccharides (1974, Charles C. Thomas)

In 1982 Dr. Morrison wrote: "I am Lester Morrison MD, and I have been a doctor for over 50 years. Much of that time has been devoted to finding a way to stop heart disease, which killed my mother, my father and several other members of my family and remains the number one killer in the U.S. and other developed countries."

Dr. Morrison provided compelling evidence in the 1960s that heart and blood vessel disease could be reversed and prevented with natural molecules, particularly chondroitin sulfate. This was over 20 years prior to the advent of the first cholesterol-reducing statin drug, Mevacor (1987). Read more