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So how can you decrease the risk of heart disease? Odds are, you probably already have some degree of heart disease. Heart disease starts early. By age 16, young Americans already have some degree of blockage in the crucial arteries that supply the heart with blood.[12] But, here's the good news. We have made significant progress in the war on heart disease. Since 1950, we've cut the death rate in half.
Public Enemy #2: Cancer Cancer is the most feared and most expensive of all diseases. And for good reason. At least a million North Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year. 50% of those will die within five years.[14] That amounts to 1,500 people a day or one every minute of every day in America and one every 3 or 4 seconds somewhere in the world.[15] We've spent billions trying to cure it. Far from being conquered, the incidence of cancer has increased 44% since 1950. Breast cancer is up 6000. Prostate cancer is up 100%. At this rate, cancer will soon pass heart disease as the number one cause of death in America. [16] Recently, the news on the cancer front in the U.S. has shown some improvement. After decades of steady increase, the rate of cancer death seems to have peaked and is dropping about 1/2% per year That's good news for about 2,750 people this year. But little comfort to the other 547,250 who won't make it. What are your odds of developing cancer? The National Cancer Institute says: "that one American in every three living today will get cancer, and one in four will die from it." [17] For women, the most feared cancer is breast cancer. In 1950,only one in twenty women got it. Today it's about one in eight. Only 18% of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer will survive it for at least five years.18 About 45,000 women will die from it this year. [19] According to Patrick Quillin in his book, Beating Cancer with Nutrition, even women who are lucky and beat it still lose an average of 19 years of lifespan. [20] For men, the most feared cancer is prostate cancer. Just about every man over 50 has an enlarged prostate. [21] Doctors estimate that 30% of American men 60 years and older have prostatic cancer.[22] Among men who live to 75, the number is over 50% [23] That's one in two! And the older you get, the higher the risk. But don't panic! Prostate cancer usually grows very slowly and can be treated with great success. The ten-year survival rate from prostate cancer is over 86%.[24] If cancer is the most feared disease, it is also the least understood. Most of us think that cancer is something in your genes: some families get it, others don't. This is not necessarily so. Only 20% of cancer is attributable to heredity 80% is in your control. [25]
So there is hope! The development of cancer is not always a short, lightning strike event that's out of your control. It maybe a long process in the case of lung cancer 20-25 years.[29] If you strengthen your immune system now, you can take back control and possibly keep cancer in check. This report will show you how to do that. Public Enemy #3: Stroke Most of us are petrified of cancer without realizing that stroke kills more women than breast cancer, and more men than prostate cancer.[30] What is a stroke? Most strokes are caused by the same problem that causes a heart attack. The arteries of the brain harden and plug up, eventually shutting off the flow of blood to vital parts of the brain causing, in essence, a "brain attack." Researchers at the University of Cincinnati recently found to their alarm that approximately 730,000 strokes occur in the USA each year, almost ONE THIRD higher than the previous estimate of 550,000. Of those victims of stroke, at least 150,000 will die. And many of the rest of them may wish they had died. Strokes are the number one cause of disabilities. There are 4,000,000 North American survivors of stroke alive today Half of them have significant disabilities including paralysis, speech 1055, impaired vision, and memory [31] You don't want to be a stroke victim and you may not have to be. | |||||
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