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Also Try Blood Pressure News -07-03-06 Study: Lifestyle Trumps Medicine for Healthy Heart (ABC News) "Middle-aged men on these medications can reduce their chances of heart problems by 57 percent by eating right, not smoking, drinking in moderation and maintaining a healthy weight while exercising regularly, the researchers said." "Those who do not take the drugs can cut their risk of heart ailments by 87 percent if they adopt these lifestyle choices." 07-06 Papers Heart Attack Prevention - Controlling Cholesterol (Walker) Provides an explanation about accumulation of cholesterol and makes recommendations. Explains how lipoproteins, HDL, LDL, and LP, regulate cholesterol in the body. (Also explains that HDL and LDL are not forms of cholesterol, but are regulators of cholesterol.) Heart Conditions - Prevention and Treatment Through Herbs (Hoffman) Heart Conditions - Tachycardia or Arrythmia Treatment (Life Plus) Recommends nutrients to prevent or reduce arrythmia. Note - recommendations are made by a health store selling products rather than nutritionists or physicians. Heart Disease - Reducing Susceptibility to Heart Disease With Diet (Fisher) Provides recommendations to reduce susceptibility to heart disease with diet. Magnesium and Heart Disease (Mason) Suggests that water high in magnesium can help protect against heart disease. 6-02 Target Heart Rate During Exercise (American Heart Association) "Target heart rates let you measure your initial fitness level and monitor your progress in a fitness program. This approach requires measuring your pulse periodically as you exercise and staying within 50 to 85 percent of your maximum heart rate. This range is called your target heart rate." 03-07 Target Heart Rate During Exercise (WebMD) Provides instructions and an online assessment of your target heart rate, the heart rate you should try to achieve and maintain during exercise. Research Best Disease Prevention Found (Independent) A new polypill has been invented that is expected to be on the market within two years. "The polypill would contain aspirin to prevent blood clots, a statin to lower cholesterol, three blood-pressure lowering agents at half the standard dose and folic acid to lower homocysteine, which causes furring of the arteries. If given to everyone aged over 55, one in three people would gain from the treatment, surviving for an extra 12 years on average without a heart attack or stroke." " 'It would be acceptably safe and with widespread use would have a greater impact on the prevention of disease in the Western world than any other single intervention,' the authors say in the BMJ." 6-03

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