Even though we know that Heart Disease has been the number one killer in the US for decades, how come we have not made more headway in decreasing the rates?
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i would say that it is because of genetics or because people do not stop smoking. seeing that smoking is a cause for heart disease. more and more people are startin to smoke every day. hoped i was helpful at all!! ~sarah~
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type and amount of food we eat (high fat, deep fried, large portions) stress and obesity. why hasn't it changed? I believe that people are eating better and exercising more, at least older people are.
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Heart Disease will always remain a large killer of American people most likely. People need to realize that certain kinds of heart disease have few or no controllable factors. However, changes in lifestyle habits especially with movement and eating can potentially reduce not only heart disease but many other significant diseases. This is not easy to do though. Changing the way you have lived for many, many years is very hard to do. Also- most things go undetected for a long time with the heart, sometimes (but unfortunately) leading to death. They usually are detected at heart attack and stroke time, which leads to death early or heart failure which may not be reversible. Then, they could die on the transplant list. Many, many things that have overcomplexity at this point in time.
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theres some that genetic but most is fat unhealthy people ...far to much work and to much stress its the life style ... fast food i no Cos UK is fast catching you up ... you never use to see many over weight people in UK but in the last 25 years there,s lots of em... + we all drive every were ?
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You would think it would have decreased in the past 50 years wouldn't you with the insistance on not using natural fats and cutting down on amount of protein in the food plan. And in the last 25 years with more meds for cholesterol and high blood pressure it should have decreased. I believe that it is due to the stress and office mentality of the people. Get more done at work, and sit in that desk til it gets done or be fired which causes more stress. I do not believe it is due to "fast food", Fried Food, or smoking. If we all went back to eating like my great grandmother, fried was good, meat was good, a little veggie and fruit was good, but "goodies" were almost unheard of. Natural Fats and foods and less of the Supplements and stress to stay fit and slim, we would all be less at risk for heart disease
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