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Heart Problems: Prevention

Here are some changes you can make to your daily life and diet that will have a positive effect on heart health: more »

Heart Problems: Alternative treatments

Despite the battalion of drugs and aggressive surgery on offer to anyone with a heart condition, there’s plenty of evidence that suggests a change in lifestyle – including a diet that excludes process... more »

Heart surgery

An overview of the different types of heart surgery and their dangers. more »

Drugs for heart disease

There is a wide range of drugs that are designed either to reduce the risk of heart disease or prevent a reoccurrence. more »

Causes of heart disease

It’s not too controversial to suggest that one of the chief causes of the epidemic of heart disease in the West is the industrialisation of our food supply, and the production of processed, packaged f... more »

Recognising a heart attack

How do you know if you’re having a heart attack? There are three main symptoms of a heart attack: more »

Diseases of the heart

Heart disease remains the biggest killer in the West. The immediate cause of death is a ‘sudden’ heart attack but this is the end-point of the slow progression of coronary heart disease (CHD) or coron... more »

How you beat heart problems

You can and you will beat heart problems. On these pages you will discover how. more »

‘Off-Label’: Doctors play fast and loose with drugs, and the patient suffers

As if drugs weren’t dangerous enough already, doctors often use them as ‘off-label’ therapies as well. It’s a medical euphemism for playing around with drugs in ways for which they’ve not been approv... more »

Stents: 25 years on and specialists learn that lifestyle changes are just as effective

The stent has become part of the standard toolkit for the heart specialist. It’s a crude, but effective, device for ‘propping up’ arteries that may collapse after angioplasty, or which may get blocke... more »

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3 Nov 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

The poisoned generation

Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulat... more »

23 Oct 2009 | Health from your Gar... (bshubbard)

Your good health is down to yo...

One thing is sure in this world: only you can establish total wellness and health. Unless you want it, and are sufficiently motivated to gain it and keep it, no amount of outside support will su... more »

1 Oct 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

DNA: it's not destiny

When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what m... more »

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