According to recent research, one out of 4 women in the U.S. is suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is actually the number one cause of death of women in the U.S.

It’s better to prevent heart disease than to have to treat it once it’s diagnosed.
Once the disease is diagnosed it could potentially be too late. Often the first (big) symptom of heart disease happens as a result of a stroke or heart attack.

There are several risk factors that contribute to heart disease. If a woman is not careful about eliminating or reducing these factors throughout her life, she will be more likely to have problems with her heart. The risk factors that increase likelihood of heart disease include high cholesterol, smoking, high blood pressure, lack of exercise, obesity, use of birth control pills and diabetes. Additional risk factors over which we have less control are genetics, menopause (and its effects) and age.

The more knowledge a woman has about the risk factors and how to reduce them, the better equipped she is to prevent and/or cope with heart disease.

Basically, it is important to make changes in lifestyle. These changes include eating healthy, quitting smoking (of course!!), taking up some form of exercise and, last but not least, reducing stress levels. Stress is literally a killer and most of us women don’t take a serious enough look at how to reduce stress in our lives.

These lifestyle changes are important for prevention of heart disease and most of the other diseases that are so prevalent today.

Empowered with knowledge of what causes heart disease and how to reduce the risk, women can take measures which will greatly reduce their risk of being stricken with the disease.

Here are two examples of how good nutrition can help prevent heart problems:

Did you know that apples are loaded with pectin - a substance that has been found to limit the amount of cholesterol that our bodies can absorb?

Did you know that potassium is very important for the health of the heart muscle and for regulating proper fluid balance in the body? You probably know that bananas are a great source of potassium (they also prevent leg cramps, by the way).

There are many other foods that are helpful in preventing heart disease.

This blog will provide current and up to date information for women about the different risk factors and how to reduce them. The focus will be on natural methods as opposed to medications, which bring along their own host of problems. We’ll talk about how to lose weight naturally, without crash diets, how to eat healthfully and nutriciously (without compromising on taste), how to keep blood pressure down, how to lower cholesterol, dealing with stress levels and much more.

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