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15 ways to beat heart disease

Cardiovascular-disease prevention can be a matter of some easy—and sometimes very appealing—lifestyle changes like these

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Stealth Health, Reader's Digest

A heart-healthy future

Death rates from cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been falling in Canada since the 1950s. And Canada’s death rate from stroke is one of the lowest in the world. But that may changes as the elderly segment of our population grows over the coming years. The good news is that modern medicine will help mitigate things. But is being pulled back from the brink by bypass surgery your idea of a healthy future? It’s better to avoid CVD altogether. Add these small changes to your life for a powerful dose of heart disease prevention.

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I have been desperately searching to beat heart disease. It appears to me that there is only one cause of heart disease and that is GLUCOSE. But don't we need glucose for energy and our brains need glucose? The answer seems to be NO. Energy can be produced from fat and the brain's glucose requirement can also be produced from fat.
There is no requirement to ingest carbohydrates. When glucose enters the bloodstream the pancreas produces insulin to signal fat cells to store the glucose as fat and the muscle cells to burn glucose for energy. The reason is that GLUCOSE is TOXIC. All cells that metabolise glucose produce METHYLGLYOXAL which affects the cell's viability. Therefore to beat heart one must keep blood glucose levels as low as possible especially postprandially. Fasting glucose levels are misleading unless your are diabetic. Get a glucose monitor to check how your eating habits influence your glucose levels. You could be heading towards diabetes without being aware of it. Unfortunately this method of avoiding heart disease will only work for people who are willing to take control of their own health. For the 15 recommendation in the article- what do they do to your glucose level?

Submitted by Andy on Wed, 2012-03-07 7:52am.