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Article: Rating your risks and taking action. (Heart Disease Handbook, part 1)
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- Environmental Nutrition
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- February 1, 1997
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February is American Heart Month. focusing attention on heart disease, the number one killer of Americans. But the news this year is less than heartwarming.
It seems that, contrary to previous reports, deaths from heart disease haven't dropped, they have merely been delayed. In other words, efforts to fend off heart disease may gain the average person a couple of years, but may not keep the disease at bay forever.
Waiting in the Wings. For several years. Americans were reassured their struggles to stop smoking, cut dietary fat. control blood pressure and manage weight were working in a big way to cut their risk of heart attack and stroke. But last fall ...