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What even your doctor may not know about the real heart attack risk factors and what you can do to prevent heart disease now. You count your cholesterol, monitor your fat and sodium consumption, and get regular exercise. But consider these facts: Many people who have heart attacks have cholesterol counts below 200. Low-fat diets can actually raise the heart attack risk in some people. And the wrong kind of exercise can do your heart more harm than good. Now f… More >>
The Heart Disease Breakthrough: The 10-Step Program That Can Save Your Life
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#1 by L. Nunes on April 11, 2010 - 5:38 pm
I don’t agree that this book is the end-all for those of us who have heart disease – especially women. It is also not a book to be read if you are still in the fragile recover stage of any type of heart or artery surgery. While the synopsis of this book states that the author doesn’t cushion facts, my interpretation is that there is a lot of sensationalism prior to the delivery of what facts there are and his manner of delivery does a very good job of breaking down any positive attitude you may have. Scare tactics are not the only manner in which to deliver important information.
As the number one killer of women, heart disease is very important to women and this author makes very little effort to cover our needs – delegating the largest bit of information he could scare up to an appendix and basing what meager advice he manages to deliver in the body of the book on inadequate research.
If you are a woman or are close to a woman who suffers from heart and or artery disease. Skip this book and continue your search for helpful information.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Dianne Cowan on April 11, 2010 - 8:25 pm
It is encouraging that Dr. Yannios rejects many of the conventional (and incorrect) approaches to heart disease prevention. There have been no studies that conclusively link high blood cholesterol, high dietary cholesterol, high dietary fat, or high blood triglycerides to heart disease. (For more on this, see Dr. Uffe Ravnskov’s excellent book “The Cholesterol Myths.”) I was pleased particularly pleased to see him mention that many people who have heart disease have normal cholesterol. In fact, nearly half of the patients in the Framingham heart study who died of coronary disease had blood cholesterol under 220!
I am, however, concerned that Dr. Yannios seems to be so concerned with atherosclerosis as a cause of heart disease. As Dr. Ravnsknov’s book shows, there is no evidence that atherosclerosis causes heart disease, nor is there any evidence that high blood cholesterol causes atherosclerosis. And without that evidence, it is plainly risky to treat otherwise healthy patients with expensive cholesterol-lowering drugs that may have serious short- and long-term side effects, simply because they have preatherosclerotic streaks in their arteries. Even fetuses have such streaks. Should we give newborns cholesterol lowering drugs? If so, I am going to go sink all my money into pharmaceutical stocks.
I say, read this book, but read it skeptically. Do not go out and ask your doctor to prescribe cholesterol lowering drugs for you, especially if your cholesterol is normal. Go to a good library and read the journal articles on cholesterol and heart disease yourself, including the numbers. (Summaries can and do lie!) Read the clinical trials of cholesterol lowering drugs to discover the side effects of these drugs, and ask yourself whether, if you are currently healthy, you want to live a life riddled with those side effects in the name of your “health.” Read a book on statistics so you’ll understand what is and is not statitistically significant. And read “The Cholesterol Myths.”
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by xman on April 11, 2010 - 10:13 pm
15% of the population could be harmed by low-fat diets and unless you like playing Russian roulette with your life, you should find out if you’re one of them (it requires a specific type of cholesterol test). This book is backed up by scientific studies and goes into relevant details of different types of cholesterol particles. It does take some effort to extract the infomation that is spread throughout the book but it is well within reach of most readers and well worth the effort.
I’ve read a number of books on preventing heart disease and this one is reccomended because it gives extremely important information you will not find in magazine articles, brochures, or other books. It goes into excellent detail on diet and exercise. The only reason why I think these facts aren’t better known is that the extra complexity would confuse some people and cause a few to not to adopt low fat diets which is beneficial to most people.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Aligned on April 12, 2010 - 12:57 am
Just intensely interesting and highly informative material that is presented perfectly. This information will motivate you to make the changes in your life necessary for good health – and not through “scare tactics”.
It’s difficult for me to comprehend how anyone who reads this book can come away with a negative opinion that results in a bad review.
I only wish that I had come into possession of this knowledge at an earlier date.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by William Davis, Md, Sc on April 12, 2010 - 3:32 am
Despite the broad awareness of cholesterol issues in the U.S., heart disease is rampant. A good part of the reason is that many people have causes for heart disease beyond cholesterol. Dr. Yannios has written the first book for the public that makes the complex issue of lipoprotein testing understandable for the average person. Lipoprotein testing fills in the huge gaps left by cholesterol, identifying risk for heart disease even in people with low or normal cholesterols. Dr Yannios talks about how shockingly often people who’ve suffered heart attacks (an often fatal event!) are told by their doctors that no cause can be identified, or that the causes are genetic and therefore untreatable. Absolute nonsense! Dr. Yannios tells us why.
Rating: 4 / 5