Heart disease may be on the upswing

by Bethany Sanders (Subscribe to Bethany Sanders's posts)
Feb 15th 2008 2:00PM

Categories: Healthy Aging, Healthy Habits, Diet & Weight Loss, Fitness

Though heart disease began to steadily decline in the 1960s, a recent study suggests that that decline is about to take a sudden turn...upward. Researchers studied autopsy records of young people who had died of unnatural causes. About 8% of them had significant heart disease at the time of their death, and 83% had the beginnings of coronary artery disease. Health experts say that this finding is significant, and call it the result of the "perfect storm" of a blossoming fast food industry and a decline in physical activity.

As a young person myself, these findings make me more than a little nervous. Heart disease is already the number one killer in America. It's definitely time that we address the issues surrounding diet and exercise so that we can reverse those numbers back downward again.

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Paul 2-20-2008 @ 8:49AM

The problem is that the statistics get confused.
Deaths from heart disease has decreased (due to better medication and surgery) so everyone has assumed that Heart Disease is on the decline.
The only way to prevent heart disease is to live a healthy lifetyle.
Don't panic though - I had a heart attack 9 years ago today !!!!
I'm fitter and healthier than I ever have been !

Paul

http://www.heart-attack-and-heart-disease.com/heartattackstory.html

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