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Women's Heart Health Starts At 20

This being Heart Health Month I thought this was very appropriate. So many of us just put this off. Enjoy this article and share with others.

What You Don't Know About Heart Health Can Hurt You

Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney

If you are a young mom, heart disease is the furthest thing from your mind. You have your kids and your husband to look after. You have work. You don’t have time to look after yourself. Besides, you may think that heart disease doesn’t really apply to you. Perhaps it’s time to review some of your assumptions.

Heart Disease Is For Men - Wrong

The misconception that heart disease is primarily a man’s concern arises because estrogen helps protect women from heart disease prior to menopause. However, after menopause women’s heart attack rates exceed men’s. Overall, women account for over half of all heart attack deaths in this country, and if a woman has a heart attack before age 50, it is twice as likely to be fatal for her than for a man.

Women Should Be More Concerned About Breast Cancer Than About Heart Disease - Wrong

While I would never advise a woman not to take precautions to avoid breast cancer, you should know that your lifetime risk of developing heart disease is 6-fold greater than your lifetime risk of developing cancer. In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death in women over 40 years old.

More importantly, heart attacks can sneak up on you. For 25% of heart attack victims their first symptom is Heart Disease vs Breast Cancer

sudden death! And many others will never experience the same quality of life again.

Women Don't Need To Worry About Heart Disease Until After Menopause - Wrong

It is true the likelihood of having a heart attack increases significantly after menopause. That is because menopause dramatically increases a number of risk factors associated with heart disease such as increases in LDL cholesterol, blood clot formation, blood pressure, and inflammation.

However, within 10 years after the onset of perimenopause (usually around age 45) your risk of a heart attack will skyrocket past that of a man of the same age. That means in those 10 years all of the not-so-good things you have been doing to your heart since age 20 catch up with you!

What Can You Do?

Don’t wait until after menopause. Start your heart health program today. Here is what the experts recommend

Avoid or quit smoking. Smoking increases the risk of heart disease 2-4 fold.

Lose weight and/or maintain ideal body weight. Overweight and obesity dramatically increase all of the major risk factors for heart disease – LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, diabetes, hypertension and inflammation.

Exercise for more than 30 minutes - more than 3 times/week. Regular exercise reduces the risk of heart disease by 30-40%.

Follow a diet low in saturated fat and trans-fat (substitute monounsaturated fats like olive oil and omega-3 fats); low in sugars and artificial sweeteners; and high in fiber, whole grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, and fish.

Work with your physician to control predisposing diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.

More Resources

For more information on heart health for women visit http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/women-heart-disease, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007188.htm, and https://www.goredforwomen.org/home/know-your-risk/factors-that-increase-your-risk/

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Dr. Steve Chaney
Health Tips From the Professor
stevechaneytips@gmail.com
www.healthtipsfromtheprofessor.com

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SHAKLEE QUALITY - WHAT'S ON THE LABEL IS IN THE PRODUCT:

This is a very important part of who we are!

Cathy Keating, Shaklee
For nearly 60 years, the Shaklee name has been synonymous with products of the utmost quality and integrity. Shaklee consumers know they can trust that what is on the label is in the product; that is the 100% Shaklee Guarantee. We promise purity, potency and performance in each and every bottle, and it’s the Shaklee quality control protocol that delivers on that promise.

For a review of the quality protocols that help create the Shaklee Difference, please visit this article on MyShaklee: http://member.myshaklee.com/us/en/article/HowWellDoYouUnderstandShakleeDifference-7b1593a155f8ec3c089529cab34a2dc4

Recent news reports have focused on the issuance of “cease and desist” letters to four large retailers for supplements the Attorney General for the State of New York asserts were improperly labeled. Testing commissioned by the New York Attorney General reportedly indicated an absence of labeled botanical ingredients in some cases, or the presence of unlabeled excipients or contaminants in others.

Shaklee scientists are familiar with the DNA barcode testing utilized. Shaklee agrees with the responses of a majority of credible experts in the botanicals and herbal supplement industry. DNA barcode testing technology, which Shaklee has used in appropriate circumstances such as determining identity of raw materials, would not be appropriate for the testing of finished product which has been through various processes that may impact the DNA signature of key nutrients, particularly of products consisting of botanical extracts.

Shaklee guarantees that what is on the label is in the product. Our commitment to the health and well-being of our loyal customers is the foundation of our business. And Shaklee also believes that sound and well understood scientific protocols should be the basis for assessing the quality and integrity of nutritional and herbal supplements.

ASTHMA AND ALLERGY TESTIMONIES

I grew up from my earliest memory suffering from tremendous allergies and hayfever

and the resulting sinus infections. Over the years my parents spent a small fortune at the

Ear, Eye, Nose, and Throat specialist and on prescriptions for tetracycline -- all to

minimal relief. I also tried virtually every over-the-counter preparation available on the

market at one time or another. We started in Shaklee in 1978 and learned about the

benefits of Alfalfa Tabs for sinuses, which helped a lot. Mega dosing Vita-C also seemed

to help. But here in Georgia in April and May everything is yellow with pollen, with all the

dogwoods and azaleas in full bloom and the Georgia pines spewing forth their pollen.

And during those two months, I would be totally miserable, even with lots of Alfalfa and

C, and everything else. In April 1993, a dear friend and fellow Shaklee sales leader in

Atlanta mentioned to me in passing that the Formula I had transformed her life

regarding allergies. I had taken Formula I, which had only been out a couple years at

that time, but didn’t really understand it and was only taking one a day or so, and that

sporadically. But that following Saturday I was going to have to mow the lawn for the

first time that spring -- which I dreaded because all that pollen blowing up in my face

would cause a terrible reaction which would take me several days or even a week to get

over. So I decided to put the Formula I to the test!!! I took 4 Formula I before I went out

to mow the lawn and DID NOT SNEEZE ONE TIME WHILE I WAS OUT THERE! That

was a major miracle for me. Later on that day, I was turning a mattress and stirring up a

lot of dust and began to feel the symptoms of an allergic reaction coming on. I went and

took another 3 Formula I right then and the symptoms were gone in about 5 minutes. I

was amazed and decided I was really onto something here! The following Tuesday one

of our good Shaklee members who was on the maintenance staff of a local church came

to our office at 5 pm, eyes all blood-shot, congested, and miserable, waving his box of

Dimatapp in hand, saying, “Do you have anything that will help me?” He had been out

mowing the lawn at the church all day. I told him about my experience with the

Formula I. He had been taking it, but I told him to take 3-4 the next day before he went

to work. The next day he was out mowing the lawn again all day, but this time he did not

sneeze once all day!!! That confirmed to me again that there was something about the

Formula I and especially taking 3-4 all at one time in the morning. Since I've discovered

the secret of taking 3-4 Formula I all at once in the morning, I have virtually eliminate

the allergies from my life. In the early years, I would take my 3-4 all at once in the

morning and then take 3-4 more whenever I felt the symptoms coming on me – and they

would always go away! But with each progressive year I have seen my susceptibility to

allergic reactions decrease little by little, so that in recent years I have hardly even

noticed the pollen season. There are only very rare days when I experience any real

reaction and have to take the extra Formula I. I have also had a serious severe allergy

to cats -- which is a real problem if I go to do a Shaklee meeting in a home that has

cats!! Sometimes I will begin to have a reaction just by someone who owns a cat coming

into our office. But again, if I will go and take 3-4 Formula I as soon as I feel the reaction

coming on, the symptoms will go away very quickly. I have found for myself and for

many, many people that we have worked with in the years since making the Formula I

discovery that the Formula I will virtually eliminate allergies in many people if used in a

very specific (but simple) way. That "way" is to take 3-4 Formula I all at once in the

morning (with food -- without food it may engender some nausea). If you take

less it will not work, and if you spread them out it will not work. But if you take 3-4

all at once in the morning, it will virtually eliminate allergies for most people.

I do not know if Formula I will help you with your allergies. But if you try it and do not

feel that you received any benefit, you may return it for 100% of your money back!

Stan P

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Heart Health Month - Easy Exercise

Rest your heart, rest your mind. || "Legs up the Wall" | yoga health

Know anyone who uses Statin drugs?

Know anyone who uses Statin drugs? What are the other issues that happen with the statins?

Read this article http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-he-statins-20100809,0,934659.story Effectiveness of statins is called into questionThe drugs clearly help patients who have already had a heart attack. But their use has skyrocketed in patients hoping to prevent a first heart attack. In those cases, the benefits are dubious.August 09, 2010|By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
o As the world's most-prescribed class of medications, statins indisputably qualify for the commercial distinction of "blockbuster." About 24 million Americans take the drugs — marketed under such commercial names as Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor — largely to stave off heart attacks and strokes.

FOR THE RECORD: An article in Monday's Health section on the effectiveness of statins said that the drugs appeared on the American pharmaceutical landscape in the late 1990s. The first statin, lovastatin, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for marketing in 1987 and appeared on the U.S. market the same year.
At the zenith of their profitability, these medications raked in $26.2 billion a year for their manufacturers. The introduction in recent years of cheaper generic versions may have begun to cut into sales revenues for the brand-name drugs that came first to the market, but better prices have only fueled the medications' use: In 2009, U.S. patients filled 201.4 million prescriptions for statins, according to IMS Health, which tracks prescription drug trends. That's nearly double the number of prescriptions written for statins in 2001, four years after they arrived on the American pharmaceutical landscape.But in recent months the drugs' touted medical reputation has come under tough scrutiny.Statins were initially approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of repeat heart attacks and strokes in patients with high cholesterol who had already had a heart attack. And used for that purpose — called "secondary prevention" — the drugs are powerful and effective medications, driving down patients' risk of another heart attack or stroke by lowering their levels of LDL (or "bad") cholesterol.Then physicians came to believe statins could also reduce the risk of a first heart attack in people who have high LDL cholesterol but are nonetheless healthy. This use of statins — called "primary prevention" — has driven the growth in the market for statins over the last decade.Today, a majority of people who use statins are doing so for primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes. It is this use of statins that has come under recent attack."There's a conspiracy of false hope," says Harvard Medical School's Dr. John Abramson, who has cowritten several critiques of statins' rise, including one published in June in the Archives of Internal Medicine. "The public wants an easy way to prevent heart disease, doctors want to reduce their patients' risk of heart disease and drug companies want to maximize the number of people taking their pills to boost their sales and profits."The stakes of manyHeart patients and their physicians are not the only ones to pin their hopes on statins. The drug companies that brought statins to the market have explored the medications' benefits in prevention or treatment of such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, prostate and breast cancer, kidney disease, macular degeneration and diabetic neuropathy. Although clear proof that statins could forestall or treat any of these diseases might bring in millions of new, paying customers, results have largely been mixed, inconclusive or disappointing.In an ideal world, debate over the clinical virtues or vices of a drug would be long settled by the time the medication saw a meteoric rise in use. But in a healthcare system that relies on commercial incentives to spur drug development, prescription medications are a product like any other.The FDA assesses drugs' safety and effectiveness for specific use; but its judgments are based on preliminary data, most of it generated by a drug company seeking approval for its product. Once the agency approves a drug for marketing, the company that makes it will move quickly and aggressively to expand the universe of patients taking its product.Sometimes, by the time the deliberate pace of medical research and debate suggests that a drug is not all it's been cracked up to be, it's already become a bestseller. Statins, say some who study the relationship between medicine and the drug industry, seem to fit that pattern.

New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers

I am so happy to be working with the company I am knowing they do over 100,000 quality control tests annually. We will not produce a product if it does not meet quality control as well as have in the bottle what is on the label. There are many manufactures that will not make supplements for us anymore as we have rejected many batches of product as they did not meet the protocol they were given. The manufactures have gotten angry and said many times "why do you care, no one else does and no one will know the difference." We know the difference and will no do it. Our philosophy is we will not create a product that harms a single cell.

New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers

By ANAHAD O'CONNOR

FEBRUARY 3, 2015 12:00 AM WELL

The New York State attorney general’s office accused four major retailers on Monday of selling fraudulent and potentially dangerous herbal supplements and demanded that they remove the products from their shelves.

The authorities said they had conducted tests on top-selling store brands of herbal supplements at four national retailers — GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart — and found that four out of five of the products did not contain any of the herbs on their labels. The tests showed that pills labeled medicinal herbs often contained little more than cheap fillers like powdered rice, asparagus and houseplants, and in some cases substances that could be dangerous to those with allergies.

The investigation came as a welcome surprise to health experts who have long complained about the quality and safety of dietary supplements, which are exempt from the strict regulatory oversight applied to prescription drugs.

The Food and Drug Administration has targeted individual supplements found to contain dangerous ingredients. But the announcement Monday was the first time that a law enforcement agency had threatened the biggest retail and drugstore chains with legal action for selling what it said were deliberately misleading herbal products.

Among the attorney general’s findings was a popular store brand of ginseng pills at Walgreens, promoted for “physical endurance and vitality,” that contained only powdered garlic and rice. At Walmart, the authorities found that its ginkgo biloba, a Chinese plant promoted as a memory enhancer, contained little more than powdered radish, houseplants and wheat — despite a claim on the label that the product was wheat- and gluten-free.

Three out of six herbal products at Target — ginkgo biloba, St. John’s wort and valerian root, a sleep aid — tested negative for the herbs on their labels. But they did contain powdered rice, beans, peas and wild carrots. And at GNC, the agency said, it found pills with unlisted ingredients used as fillers, like powdered legumes, the class of plants that includes peanuts and soybeans, a hazard for people with allergies.

The attorney general sent the four retailers cease-and-desist letterson Monday and demanded that they explain what procedures they use to verify the ingredients in their supplements.

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“Mislabeling, contamination and false advertising are illegal,” said Eric T. Schneiderman, the state attorney general. “They also pose unacceptable risks to New York families — especially those with allergies to hidden ingredients.”

The attorney general’s investigation was prompted by an article in the New York Times in 2013 that raised questions about widespread labeling fraud in the supplement industry. The article referred to research at the University of Guelph in Canada that found that as many as a third of herbal supplements tested did not contain the plants listed on their labels — only cheap fillers instead.

Industry representatives have argued that any problems are caused by a handful of companies on the fringe of the industry. But New York’s investigation specifically targeted store brands at the nation’s drugstore and retail giants, which suggests that the problems are widespread.

“If this data is accurate, then it is an unbelievably devastating indictment of the industry,” said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an expert on supplement safety. “We’re talking about products at mainstream retailers like Walmart and Walgreens that are expected to be the absolute highest quality.”

In response to the findings, Walgreens said it would remove the products from its shelves nationwide, even though only New York State had demanded it. Walmart said it would reach out to the suppliers of its supplements “and take appropriate action.”

A spokeswoman for GNC said that the company would cooperate with the attorney general “in all appropriate ways,” but that it stood behind the quality and purity of its store brand supplements. The company said it tested all of its products “using validated and widely used testing methods.”

Target did not respond to requests for comment.

The F.D.A. requires that companies verify that every supplement they manufacture is safe and accurately labeled. But the system essentially operates on the honor code.

Under a 1994 federal law, supplements are exempt from the F.D.A.’s strict approval process for prescription drugs, which requires reviews of a product’s safety and effectiveness before it goes to market.

The law’s sponsor and chief architect, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, is a steadfast supporter of supplements. He has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the industry and repeatedly intervened in Washington to quash proposed legislation that would toughen the rules.

Mr. Hatch led a successful fight against a proposed amendment in 2012 that would have required supplement makers to register their products with the F.D.A. and provide details about their ingredients. Speaking on the floor of the Senate at the time, Mr. Hatch said the amendment was based on “a misguided presumption that the current regulatory framework for dietary supplements is flawed.”

Critics say it is all too easy for dangerous supplements to reach the market because they are not subject to a review or approval process. Under current law, supplements are assumed to be safe until the authorities can prove otherwise. And in general, they are pulled from shelves only after serious injuries occur — which is not uncommon.

In 2013, for example, an outbreak of hepatitis that struck at least 72 people in 16 states was traced to a tainted supplement. Three people required liver transplants, and one woman died.

It is not only consumers. Hospitals have been affected, too. In December, an infant at a Connecticut hospital died when doctors gave the child a popular probiotic supplement that was later found to be contaminated with yeast. After the child’s death, the F.D.A. issued a warning to the public that reiterated its limited control over supplements.

“These products are not subject to F.D.A.’s premarket review or approval requirements for safety and effectiveness,” the F.D.A. stated, “nor to the agency’s rigorous manufacturing and testing standards for drugs.”

As part of its investigation, the attorney general’s office bought 78 bottles of the leading brands of herbal supplements from a dozen Walmart, Target, Walgreens and GNC locations across New York State. Then the agency analyzed the products using DNA bar coding, a type of genetic fingerprinting that the agency has used to root out labeling fraud in the seafood industry.

The technology allows scientists to identify plants and animals by looking for short sequences of DNA unique to each organism, which can then be quickly analyzed — much like the bar codes on grocery items — and compared with others in an electronic database. The technology can single out which plants a supplement contains by identifying its unique DNA.

Dr. Cohen at Harvard said that the attorney general’s test results were so extreme that he found them hard to accept. He said it was possible that the tests had failed to detect some plants even when they were present because the manufacturing process had destroyed their DNA.

But that does not explain why the tests found so many supplements with no DNA from the herbs on their labels but plenty of DNA from unlisted ingredients, said Marty Mack, an executive deputy attorney general in New York. “The absence of DNA does not explain the high percentage of contaminants found in these products,” he said. “The burden is now with the industry to prove what is in these supplements.”

Lipitor- Thief of Memory

There is a good book out called Lipitor- Thief of Memory. It is written by Duane Graveline, M.D. he is an M.D. and a former astronaut, and an aerospace medical research scientist. This man has the credentials.
He has written a book about his experience with taking Lipitor, because he was an astronaut and his cholesterol was elevated the NASA doctors prescribed him Lipitor. He is a medical doctor, he wants to do what is best and so he took it. But then he had amnesia, standing in his front yard and didn't know where he was.
It is called transient amnesia. My father experienced it a couple of times as well after being put on lipitor.
That's how I got interested in it.

He describes the method of action of Lipitor, it blocks an enzyme that keeps our body from producing cholesterol. That sounds good in theory but our brain is mostly cholesterol and when the enzyme is blocked for the glial cells in the brain to make cholesterol, we can have problems. There are probably more people suffering with dementia related to lipitor than we realize. If someone is 50 a doctor is going to probably tell someone a little memory loss is normal and won't connect it to the medication.
If you are 70 I don't feel there is any way most doctors would connect lipitor to memory loss. They think you are aging and that is just the way you are aging.

WE know about the muscle aches that can come with lipitor use and that is a very good reason to stop the medication. Doctors know to warn the patients of that side effect. A prudent doctor prescribing lipitor will have the patient's liver enzymes checked every 6 months to make sure their liver isn't dying from the medication.

WE know we can reverse high cholesterol with other lifestyle measures. Increase fiber to absorb cholesterol, that doesn't block the production of good cholesterol in your brain. Increase intake of vegetables so you are getting more plant sterols and stanols.
But the easiest way to get those is to take Shaklee's Cholesterol Reduction Complex.
Then excercise. A person has to decide for themself what is their good health worth.

http://www.spacedoc.com/lipitor_thief_of_memory.html

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