The United States is currently being ravaged by an epidemic of cardiovascular disease. Heart attacks kill almost a million Americans a year - and that doesn't count the poor souls who die from strokes (more than 160,000 in 2002). The latest data shows that over 64 million Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease - and 39 million of them are age 65 or younger. Sadly, more and more men in their 20s and 30s are dying from what used to be a disease of the elderly.

 

In the face of this onslaught, mainstream medical practitioners have touted the "miraculous"  capabilities of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and urged their widespread use. And while over the past decade doctors have prescribed these costly medications to millions of Americans, the death rate from heart attacks and strokes has hardly been lowered.

 

So what gives? The problem is that everyone has been sold a bill of goods. Elevated cholesterol levels, in and of themselves, do not cause heart attacks and strokes.

 

Learn more on ways of preventing heart attacks and the simple nutritional measures you can take to dramatically reduce your risk of ever falling victim to heart disease.