Heart Attack Triggers You Should Know

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StephenX — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:14:17 GMT

I haven't seen any comments on chelation to remove heavy metals and arterial plaque. I am on a chelation process now. Hoping to avoid a stent. I visited a really good cardiac doctor and he told me stents don't really help prolong ones life. They only decrease symptoms. Chelation is not an easy way out. It makes me feel unwell and gives me the squirts. Since I have been doing this therapy, the times I feel as if my arms are going to burst into flame have decreased a lot. I am hopeful that I am actually removing the plaque from my heart vessels. Any other of Mercola's fans have any comments on EDTA chelation?

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Freedom — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:14:02 GMT

An interesting development in the UK........bio-degradeable stents are being evaluated on some selected heart attack patients and should be; it is reported, available in the UK by the end of the year.

This is interesting, because I was set to have one inserted and taken off the list because I was off Aspirin.

The New Labour government in the UK has been treating patients as numbers to complet targets in NHS hospitals and with little consideration for the patient; that's me, who has been, it seems swept along on a conveyor belt like a supermarket chicken........a number on chitty to satisfy the governments target figures..........that of course, is no the way to operate a health system.

So.............bio-degradeable stents sounds like a revolutionary move forward in UK medicine and all credit due to the brilliant scientists and doctors who strive for better medicine.........well done to them all.

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Freedom — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:03:08 GMT

I enjoy a Mediterranean diet and was shocked to learn that I had Angina.

I was prescribed tablets and told to try them, this was not good enough for me, I asked the consultant what was the next step, he said an Angiogram was the blue chip test to definately confirm if there was a problem.

I requested the Angiogram and the diagnosis was confirmed.

The very next day I started a diet and in 9 days lost 1.5 stone; thats 21 lbs in weight, and felt marvellous.

breakfast is a bowl of cold skimmed milk; not too much, quaker oats, dried cranberries, two dried apricots, walnuts with also sometimes additionally a whole chopped banana........with a cup of ordinary skimmed milk'd tea.

I eat smaller amounts of food, haven't had sugar or salt for 15 years; now use lime, lemon to taste in salads.

I eat lots of coloured sweet peppers, tomatoes; fruit and vegetables.

Each day; a glass of red wine and a teaspoon of Armagnac brandy; recently an article prescribed this particular brandy especially good for the heart.

Since late 2006 and upto two monts ago, I could only walk about 300 yards before having to stop with chest ache.

Now I am able to walk each day, without any problems one to one and a half miles in the morning before work, and......still taking my medication, but no Aspirin, this made me feel ill and caused problems. I decided to stop taking Aspirin and subsituted it immediately with one 1,000mg of Cod liver oil capsule daily at breakfast.

Something has change inside me and I don't know what, I still have Angina as seen in the Angiogram, can now walk at weekends three and half miles in a day with no problems and now wonder what is going on.

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jonallen — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:04:24 GMT

Dear anotherAL,

Giving up things that are super bad for you is always a good idea. But to outlaw a whole class of foodstuff is generally a bad idea. Grains are not all bad (see my reply to Corgi). Also, do you eat a nutritious breakfast? You may have heard about a fad a few years ago "the peanut butter diet". One thing it had going for it was that it encouraged consuming a healthy balance of healthy oils and proteins for breakfast and lunch, and scaling back on dinner. The bad thing about "the peanut butter diet" was that it sent up little warnings about non-organic peanuts and their tendancy to concentrate soil contaminants and pesticides. Thankfully, good organic peanut butter is much more available and cheap (Whole Foods Mkt.- $2.99/lb.).

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jonallen — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:33:33 GMT

Dear anotherAL,

Respecting Dr Mercola and his approach to life is fine as far as that goes, but you need to strike a balance that is liveable for you. Giving up foods is seen as virtuous, and if this exclusion process is exclusive enough, ie, giving up cola or Twinkies, then it probably is. But excluding all grains from personal consumption is rather a blind approach to a healthy diet. While it is true that many grains are hybridized to a much less nutritious state than the original, wild grains, that doesn't mean that you are better off excluding all of them. Rye, oats, barley, amaranth, kamut, millet, quinoa, spelt & teff are all great grains for providing powerfully cleansing nutrients to your body. The key to a healthy diet is moderation, not absolute exclusion. Many times I have heard someone comment about a food that had a known allergen in it only to hear the savvy consumer reply "Don't worry, I know how much will trigger a reaction, and I really enjoy the other ingredients".

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SECFORT24 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:45:14 GMT

It's already been admitted by the ex chief of the American Medical Association that Cholesterol is one of the biggest frauds in medicine. It's only an indicator that your body isn't healthy. The real issues are calcification,inflammtion,and insulin levels.

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curious7 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:36:49 GMT

Live right, eat right, exercise, rest at the proper time at night, that is between the hours of 10:00 pm, and 2:00 am, is a very good start at preventing a heart attack. Oh and stay away from mainstream "DOCTORS."

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Health 1 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:50:22 GMT

Donna 2...right on target. Our bodies do have the inate ability to restore themselves, providing we give them the raw materials to do just that. It usually involves a three way healing! Excellent point (s). Thanks so much, Donna.

Blessings

Dr. Trudy

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KeysFrancine — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:50:14 GMT

Has anybody received the e-mail that has been circulating re: not drinking cold water after eating, especially after a fatty meal. Supposedly the cold water congeals (sp) the fat. The oriental people, it says, always have a hot drink, which is why their risk of heart disease is low.

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Pastor_203 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:37:59 GMT

Raw eggs (range free) works well. Raw grass feed beef works well too.

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Komic Kaze — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:21:55 GMT

Switching to a whole foods diet and upping the water intake are two key factors to maintaining heart health. It really amazes me sometimes that people eat all the processed junk without even looking at the label to see what is in it. Words like "hydrolyzed soy protein" and "partially hydrogenated soybean oil" are warning signs that will cause serious damage...eventually. Doesn't it make sense that we are supposed to eat the foods nature provides us and not some man-made concoctions? It's common sense, really. And water, the universal solvent: Does it not make sense that this is the primary beverage that we should be drinking? Sometimes I wonder about the general population...

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vida khan — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:19:40 GMT

According to Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, there was no difference in the rate of heart attack between people with a high HDL and low HDL. So I'm wondering, are even these statistics quoted by Dr. Mercola produced by pharmaceutical companies? Plus, the plaque build up in arteries is usually made up of mostly polyunsaturated fat.

What should have been in the list to keep your heart healthy is to avoid all trans fats and most polyunsaturated vegetable oils. The list talks about oxidation from elevated levels of iron, but does not mention the oxidation that occurs from ingesting the already oxidized vegetable oils.

Just letting you guys know.....I was born in Sicily and all of my relatives on mom and dad's side are sicilians, many of them still there in Italy. Well, nobody in my family has ever died from a heart attack (or cancer.) Doctors always suggest a Mediterranean diet, but they don't even really know what it is. I have lived in Sicily many years off and on and I will tell you the typical diet for the day: breakfast,usually a ham and cheese sandwich, or something sweet, like sweet croissants, or my favorite, a sweet brioche eaten along with almond italian ice, but never cereal. For lunch, always pasta, usually with fresh tomato sauce, some sort of vegetable, and fish or chicken or beef. I've never known anyone there to be a vegetarian (even though I'm sure they exist today.) For the typical dinner, it's usually bread, all sorts of cheeses and lots of them, vegetables, some sort of canned meat or fish, or salamis, hams (yummy prosciutto,) mortadella (the italian bologna,) basically something made out of pork, which Italians eat so much of. Plus, ice cream very frequently. The main oils and fats are in fact olive oil and butter. Only when I recently visited did I first start to see margarines and soy based products in the stores, and I warned my relatives against them.

So see.......the typical Mediterranean diet is not what the experts have you think.

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corgi — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:11:20 GMT

It has always been my impressiion that the world survives on grains, literally. We dont really produce many or various diverse foods any more, due to big agriculture taking over the food chain. However, since we have been reduced to a final few that can get any play in the new world order, what grains are healthy. Assuming of course that some ag company hasnt pumped them full of chemicals and genetic tinkering. How many are consumeable of the following list, Rice, corn, wheat, grasses, rye, millet, sorgum, are the ones that come to mind first. Of these, which ones are useful, not useful, healthy, not healthy, to be avoided?

We live on potatoes, boiled or baked, cornbread baked, 7 grain bread, no white, rye bread, natural, Rices of all kinds and lots of beans and lentils and collards, cabbage, steamed or boiled and pastas. Is my diet lethal?

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helpingheart — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:43:54 GMT

Notice this article makes NO MENTION of artery clogging Trans-Fats and Hydrogenated Oils that Big Food Companies put in the processed food - that the brainwashed public consumes.

Of course they don't point to the responsibility of the Big Greedy Food Companies who preserve their "food" on the shelves to last months, and months without going bad with Trans-Fats/Hydrogenated Oils. Also all the chemicals that poison the body are never mentioned.

Big Greedy Corporate Business NEVER takes responsibility for the garbage they put out!!!

This article is a lie and a HALF-TRUTH, because it does not fully give ALL the reasons to why Americans are having heart attacks!

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Russ Bianchi — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:02:57 GMT

I just read an article claiming heavily caffinated breakfast bars (HFCS laden) were the next big trend...so if getting out of bed doesn't finish you off, grab a Cardiac Arrest Bar with your Starbuck's, and/or Dunkin' Donuts - it's sure to do the trick!