Heart Disease
Food Chain Radio Show #1178
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Heart Disease and Eating for the Heart
Guest: Dr. Jay Johnson, Cardiovascular Associates of Santa Cruz
This just in from the American Heart Association: Half of all U.S. adults have some form of cardiovascular disease, which kills more Americans than all forms of cancer and respiratory diseases combined.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Heart Disease and Eat for the Heart
In other words, if there are just the two of us in the room. Chances are one of us – you or me – has a heart disease that could very well take our life.
To get a handle on what this disease is, picture yourself on the way to work at the peak of the morning commute. Traffic is bumper to bumper and moving along at crawl. Suddenly, five cars up ahead smash into each other and everything comes to a screeching halt. There you sit.
Were that clogged freeway inside your body it would be called “Arteriolosclerosis,” which essentially is what happens when the blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients from your heart to the rest of your body become clogged with commuting pieces of plague and everything – meaning your life – comes to a screeching halt.
Now since half of us are likely to have this cardiovascular disease, and we happen to have a board certified specialist in cardiovascular disease at hand, it’s probably a good time to ask…
Leave a comment below: What should we eat for healthy heart?
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