How to reduce Inflammation of your arteries

What will motivate you to combine a healthy diet, modest exercise, and nutritional supplementation, taking time to de-stress, get more sleep, so that you can experience the following health benefits?

 

1. Improve Insulin Sensititivity
2. Decrease Oxidized LDL Cholesterol
3. Lower High Blood Pressure
4. Improve Cholesterol Levels
5. Decrease Risk of Diabetes
6. Lower Homocysteine Levels
7. Establish a Healthy Weight

 

Healthy lifestyles and becoming proactive in protecting your health is your best option to decrease your risk of heart disease or even reverse hardening of your arteries.

For my husband, the wake-up call was the sudden death of his much loved cousin.  Read his story here: What does it take to release weight?

Do we need to take nutritional supplements?

In this article Supplement Wisely Chris Kresser talks about taking supplements wisely.

At the end of the year 2000, I was fortunate to be introduced to a company called Usana Health Sciences – a company that manufactures nutritional supplements.  The founder, Dr Myron Wentz has ensured that the supplements that Usana makes are synergistic and provide our bodies with what they need and in the right amounts.  This takes the guesswork out of choosing the right supplements. 

For instance, like me, you might have an orange tree in your garden, and eat them when they are in season – but we don’t know how much Vitamin C is in each orange and the amounts would vary anyway.  Taking advanced quality supplements provides the exact nutrients in non-variable amounts. We can still enjoy eating oranges (and in fact, it is  important for our health to eat fresh wholesome food), but we don’t have to worry about are we getting enough vitamin C for what our cells might need for healthy cell production right at this very moment.

Many people treat vitamins and minerals like medicine from the doctor, that is, only take them when they feel they need them.  I say, that we don’t really know what our cells require at any given moment, so for me, prevention is my focus.  I like to think that all the nutrients that are required for healthy cell production are available to my body’s cells every moment of every day.  And that is why I take advanced quality supplements from Usana Health Sciences.

I trust Usana Health Sciences to provide me with the right nutrition for my true health.

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Latest attack on calcium fails to link mineral to heart attacks

(NaturalNews) A new scare study intended to deter people from taking calcium supplements only further reinforces the fact that calcium is actually safe, at least when taken with cofactor nutrients that aid in its proper absorption. The poorly-designed... Read more: Latest attack on calcium fails to link mineral to heart attacks

The article above makes it very clear the importance of taking co-factors along with calcium (unlike this study: Calcium may increase risk of heart attack)

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The co-factors help to synergize the calcium so that it can be used effectively by our body’s cells.

Not all of us are scientists, but it is helpful to educate ourselves as to how our body uses nutrients.

An old but easy to understand book, is by Dr Michael Colgan called ‘The New Nutrition’ which helped me to begin my journey of understanding the importance of nutritional supplements (and it is still available at amazon.com).

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Have you had your Vitamin D today?

High vitamin D level essential to prevent chronic inflammatory diseases

(NaturalNews) The connection between cellular saturation of the prohormone vitamin D and development of chronic conditions ranging from cancer, dementia, stroke and heart disease have been well documented among forward-thinking scientists for at least... http://www.naturalnews.com/035694_vitamin_D_inflammatory_disease_prevention.html

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Are nutritional supplements safe???

Doctors Say Vitamins are Safe and Effective

The news and media proclaim that taking vitamin supplements is of no value and, somehow, actually dangerous.

You have heard an earful from reporters. Now let's hear from doctors.

http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/doctors-say-vitamins-are-safe-and-effective

And the good news is, there are many more doctors than the above realising that supplements are vital to our good health. 

As consumers we need to educate ourselves so that we understand what our bodies cells require.

I recommend http://www.ComparativeGuide.com  to get learning. 

I have been taking advanced quality supplements for over 11 years and I plan to continue doing so because my health is so much better for doing it.

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Fish oils reduce disease burden in a cost effective manner

Approximately 310000 Australians suffer from chronic heart disease and is the second largest disease burden to Australian economy.  The total direct healthcare cost attributed to cardiovascular disease is AUD$5.9 billion each year in Australia.  A latest health economic analysis by Deloitte Access Economics showed that fish oil supplementation is a cost-effective intervention to prevent future cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in Australia.

Fish oil supplements offer a number of advantages through lowering potential risk profiles. The World Health Organization (WHO), American Heart Association, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and the National Heart Foundation of Australia recommend fish oil as a complementary treatment in addition to standard treatments following a MI.

Epidemiological studies have shown that the consumption of fatty fish is associated with lower incidence rates of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and MI.  The Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia (CHC) recently commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to undertake cost benefit analysis (CBA) of fish oils and estimate the net benefit of fish oils as adjunctive treatment for prevention of heart disease among those who have experienced MI, versus no fish oils, taking into account the cost per person of the treatment and the DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years) avoided. DALY is a measure of overall disease burden adopted by WHO.

The analysis by Deloitte Access Economics is based on fish oil supplementation with dosage of 510-540mg EPA/day and 345-360mg DHA/day.  The result showed an ICER (incremental cost-effectiveness ratio) of $2,041 per DALY averted, indicating that fish oils are cost effective in the secondary prevention of CHD relative to the WHO benchmark.  The maximum value of the DALY benefits from the fish oil intervention was estimated at up to $3.4 billion.

This latest report offers further evidence that fish oil supplementation not only is effective in the reduction of incidence rates for cardiovascular disease, but also offers a genuine opportunity to reduce disease burden in a cost effective manner.

Source: 
CHC Report on Fish oils for the secondary prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, 17 Feb 2012

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Do you have a loved one or someone you know who has cancer?

Do you have a loved one or someone you know who has cancer?

Are you a health practitioner who deals with cancer patients?

Do you play a support role with someone with cancer have a strong family history of the disease and want to avoid it?

Are you interested in finding out more about options you won’t see or hear in the mainstream media?

If you fit any of these categories or know someone who this applies to please read on (or pass this on) as it could change lives forever for the better!

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