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See article keywords and concepts |  Which brings up the all-important question: how many people have died over the past 20 years from listening to the American Heart Association's advice? And, by the way, guess where the AHA gets millions of dollars in funding each year? It's from the prescription drug companies, of course, who stand to benefit from treating patients with pharmaceuticals rather than having patients get well from nutrition. That's why I propose that we pass a national law renaming the AHA to "the american heart association for Complete Idiots". And require it to change its slogan to "Prevent Heart Disease. | | I think the american heart association should respond by saying "The only way people don't get heart disease is if they die before the age at which they would normally be diagnosed with it. Thus our recommendation is that people avoid taking antioxidant supplements so they die earlier before they ever get heart disease." This should be part of the American Heart Association's new advertising slogan, which is: "Avoid heart disease by dying before you get it!" That seems to be consistent with the AHA's message, after all. | | REPPED: On the heels of a bizarre announcement from the american heart association that people should not use antioxidant supplements to prevent heart disease, the Council for Responsible Nutrition has replied with a review of epidemiologic studies that shows strong support for the use of vitamin E and other antioxidants in reducing the risk of major coronary disease. One study that reviewed 80,000 nurses who took vitamin E supplements showed a 41% reduction in the risk of major coronary disease. | | If you look at the history of the american heart association, their present position is no surprise. The AHA has, for decades, denied any benefit whatsoever from vitamins, minerals or nutritional supplements. In fact it was only grudgingly and reluctantly dragged into the era of nutrition after being confronted with a mountain of undeniable evidence in support of nutrition for heart health.
For decades, the AHA actually prescribed a diet that avoided all heart-healthy oils, such as cod liver oil, salmon oil, fish oils, omega-3 oil, primrose oil and other dietary oils. | | That's why I propose that we pass a national law renaming the AHA to "the american heart association for Complete Idiots". And require it to change its slogan to "Prevent Heart Disease. Die Sooner. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Clinton Foundation and the american heart association.
All the major soda companies signed on—Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Inc., and Cadbury Schweppes (which sells Dr Pepper and Snapple), as well as the trade group, the American Beverage Association, which represents, as its website explains, "producers, marketers and distributors of virtually every nonalcoholic refreshment beverage you can name."
Under the deal, some 35 million kids nationwide will be given healthier drink choices. | | Often, they even feature the american heart association seal of approval. This begs the question: Are they healthy?
"This is one of the biggest labeling scams out there," charges Michele Simon, author of Appetite for Profit and founder/director of the Center for
Informed Food Choice (CIFC). "The federal government said to eat more whole grains but these processed-food companies are just adding a little whole grain and then slapping big labels on the box. And they're spinning these new cereals ... as healthier when they're not. | | Still more tragic is that children are increasingly gaining weight at younger and younger ages:
More than 10 percent of American toddlers aged 2 to 5 are overweight, according to the american heart association.
If Some 19 percent of children aged 6 to 11 are overweight, and 17 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 19 are overweight, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NHANES Data).
Given the number of children who are overweight or obese, many are also developing type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. | | American Heart Association to fund a trans fat education program," Joseph adds.
Taking legal action against the food industry isn't new. For example, in 1983 the Committee on Children's Television, Inc., various consumer groups, and individuals brought a lawsuit in California against General Foods for deceptively advertising breakfast cereals such as Cocoa Pebbles, Sugar Crisp, Alpha Bits, Fruity Pebbles, and Honeycomb to children. Plaintiffs argued that calling them "cereals" was misleading. | | In the study published in Diabetes, eight male participants followed a low-fat diet for five weeks (comprising 55 percent carbohydrates, 15 percent protein, and 30 percent fat, such as that recommended by the USDA and the american heart association), then took five weeks off (called a "washout"), and then came back and ate a low-carb diet (20 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 50 percent fat) for another five weeks. (Or they started with the low-carb diet first and finished with the low-fat diet. | | Sugar and Cardiovascular Disease: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Committee on Nutrition of the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism of the american heart association." Circulation 106 (2002): 523-27.
James, Janet, Peter Thomas, David Cavan, and David Kerr. "Preventing Childhood Obesity by Reducing Consumption of Carbonated Drinks: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial." British Medical Journal 328 (2004): 1237-41.
Jeppesen, Jorgen, Hans Ole Hein, Poul Suadicani, and Finn Gyntelberg. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Sidney Smith, MD, professor of medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former president, american heart association (AHA), and cochairman, ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines.
American College of Cardiology annual meeting, Atlanta.
The Journal of the American Medical Association. | | For more information on "economy-class syndrome," visit the american heart association Web site at www.americanheart.org/ presenter.jhtml?identifier=3010041.
Drug-Eluting Stents Four Times Better than Others
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions news release.
Drug-eluting stents improved the outcomes of patients who developed blockages in veins that had been surgically grafted onto the heart, according to a study by researchers at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. | | Cole, RN, clinical nurse III, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center. american heart association.
Just a 12-minute visit with a dog improved the heart and lung function of heart-failure patients, a new study has found.
THE STUDY
Researchers randomly assigned 76 heart-failure patients between the ages of 18 and 80 to one of three groups. One group (26 patients) received a visit from a dog and a volunteer, the second group (25 patients) received a visit from a volunteer alone and the third group (25 patients) did not receive a visit at all. | | For more about the new CPR guidelines — as well as emergency cardiovascular care, visit the american heart association Web site at www.americanheart.org. Click on "CPR & ECC."
How to Tell What Your Lab Tests Really Mean
Kandice Kottke-Marchant, MD, PhD, section head, hemostasis and thrombosis, department of clinical pathology, The Cleveland Clinic, and professor of pathology, The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
Even if they're otherwise health-savvy, few patients know as much as they should about diagnostic blood and urine tests. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The american heart association, the American Cancer Association, and other large philanthropies offer tremendous public relations exposure for the pharmaceuticals that support their organizations.
While maintaining not-for-profit status, many of these organizations are run as efficiently and as productively as corporations. Before you give, check out how much of your charitable donation goes to research, treatment, and cure. Compare that to the amount used for "administration" and "programs" and "miscellaneous." Be an informed donor. |
David Brownstein M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In a landmark article in 1998, researchers reported increased cardiovascular events in the conventional hormone-treated group as compared to a controlled group that took a placebo. The american heart association came out against using conventional hormone replacement therapy for the sole reason of preventing future heart attacks.3 An article in the New
England Journal of Medicine cited similar results showing conventional hormone replacement therapy ineffective for preventing heart disease. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  In a report to the American Heart Association's Inter-American Society of Hypertension, Dr. Devarajan Sankar presented evidence that patients with high blood pressure who were taking blood pressure medicationss (but still had high blood pressure) were able to drop their blood pressure into the normal range by simply switching to sesame oil as their only cooking oil. Sampath Parthasarathy, Ph.D., a biochemist at Atlanta's Emory University and an expert in antioxidants and metabolism, suspects that the lower blood pressure may be an indirect effect of the sesamin or sesamol or both. |
Ray D. Strand
See book keywords and concepts |  Thomas James, cardiologist, president of the University of Texas Medical Branch, and the president of the american heart association in 1979 and 1980, said, "You couldn't get ideas funded that went in other directions than cholesterol. You were intentionally discouraged from pursuing alternative questions. I've never dealt with a subject in my life that elicited such an immediate hostile response."5
With all opposing theories silenced, the cholesterol theory went great guns. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Aim for Two Servings a Week
The american heart association recommends that we eat at least two fish meals a week. This recommendation is also included in the USDA's 2005 dietary guidelines. The nutrients found in seafood help reduce risk of death by heart attack and prevent a host of chronic health problems and terminal illnesses. Seafood cuts the risk for heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, stroke, diabetes, and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. | | As of April 2006, the American Heart Association's (AHA) Nutrition Committee no longer recommends eating soy to lower cholesterol. The FDA is currently reviewing its policy on soy health claims. And a recent article by Harvard Women's Health Watch (April 2006) was titled "Soy: Not So Miraculous?"
The soy associated with the Asian diet is a whole different animal from the soy we've been sold in America as a health food. There, they eat naturally fermented soy foods like tempeh and miso and old-fashioned fermented soy sauce—and they eat way less of it than you might imagine. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Yet, the american heart association is now recommending that children consume a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet—exactly the kind of diet that was linked, in one recent study, with failure to thrive in children. The fact is, children need good fats to provide the raw materials for healthy brain cells.
Statins have been found to help with heart attack and stroke prevention in two groups of people: those with type 2 diabetes, and those who have already had a heart attack or stroke and want to prevent another one. | | Here are some nutritional interventions to consider:
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Studies show that omega-3s from fish oil helps decrease the inflammation associated with cardiovascular disease. The american heart association began recommending it as a treatment option in 2003.
Fish oil also lowers triglycerides. It protects against heart failure, irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia), heart attack, and sudden death. Studies show that fish oil supplements can be as effective as statins—and without any side effects. Regular intake of fish oil has been shown to lower the risk of cardiac-related death. |
J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  This increased risk has led the american heart association and the National Cholesterol Education Panel of the National Institutes of Health to call them "heart-disease equivalents," a label that has been used to justify a push for more treatment of diabetics with statins for the prevention of heart attacks as well as their recurrence in diabetics with a history of heart disease. But just because they have a greater risk of heart attacks doesn't mean they will get extra benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering drugs. | | She referred me to the Web site of the american heart association, whose expert panel profiled who was at risk for heart disease and who should be taking medications like Lipitor to lower their cholesterol as a preventative. There was a series of "points" supposedly related to a person's risk of heart disease that were based on "risk factors" like age, diabetes, hypertension, family medical history, smoking, and history of heart disease. If the sum of these points was great enough, you were counseled to "talk to your doctor," and we all know what that means. | | However, if we were to follow the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, endorsed by the American College of Cardiology and the american heart association, every American over age forty-five with an LDL greater than 130 mg/dL would be taking statins. Since half of Americans over age thirty-five have an LDL greater than 130, that would mean that almost half of all Americans, or 100 million people, should, theoretically, be taking statins. Since a year of statins costs up to $3,000, that would come to $300 billion a year. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
See book keywords and concepts |  Anyone who has followed Atkins, Protein Power, No-Grain, Sugar-Busters, or South Beach Phase 1 diets has been indoctrinated in the disadvantages of grains.
The american heart association gives oats the Heart Healthy Seal of Approval, but as president of the board of directors of the Desert Division of the association, I can tell you that the seal is bought, not earned. The Scots, known as fearsome warriors, were avid oaters, but they ate whole oats in the form known as steel-cut, Scottish, or Irish oats, which are digested very slowly. | | So impressive are these "brown" and "green" fats, that when patients with coronary artery disease were given a diet containing 30 percent fat, consisting of canola oil and olive oil enriched with extra ALA, and compared to patients who followed the low-fat american heart association (AHA) diet, the trial was halted after three years. Why? Because the results for those in the high green and brown fats group were so dramatically better it was considered unethical to have the others continue on the AHA diet.7 So has the AHA changed its dietary recommendations? No way. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | The American Heart Association's Go ¦— Red For Women movement has more information on women and heart disease at www. americanheart. org.
Menopause May Increase Salt-Linked Hypertension
Ivonne Hernandez Schulman, MD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and assistant professor of clinical medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. |
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