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What The Doctors Don’t Tell You about Cholesterol and Plaque?
After I refused to go on the cocktail of drugs my doctor and cardiologist recommended, I began to research the subject of heart disease. One the main causes is blocked arteries.
My research was quite in depth and exhaustive. I learned that the devastating symptoms of heart disease don’t usually start creating problems until the arteries in the heart are 70% closed or clogged. In other words the problem has begun long before you feel any symptoms at all.
That is why heart disease is often called the silent killer.
I went to the hospital and had the prescribed Angiogram. The procedure entails the passing of a small camera on the end of a wire up through Read the rest of this entry »
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America’s diabetes population has been rising drastically in the last ten years. According to the American Diabetes Association there are 20.8 million children and adults that suffer from diabetes, or about 7% of our total population. Of that only 14.6 million actually know that they have it. Even though the numbers of people being affected by diabetes is growing, there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
A recent study shows that the drug Avandia which is used to treat type 2 diabetes also helps to prevent patients from acquiring diabetes. In a 3 year clinical study out of Denmark that included 21 different countries, people who were at Read the rest of this entry »
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