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Article: Lifestyle and prevention tips for a healthy heart
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- Chicago Defender
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- November 15, 2004
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The heart. Encompassing all emotions, it flutters in love, leaps with joy, rages with anger and warms with kindness. It holds our deepest inner wisdom, truest source of courage, and purest sense of strength. And, all the while, day in and day out, it efficiently pumps life-sustaining blood throughout the body, nourishing cells and organs. The heart. That is, the healthy heart.
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), more than 945,000 Americans die annually due to cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke), or CVD. It is the leading cause of death for adults in the United States, claiming the lives of over one in three men and women, averaging one death every 33 seconds. ...