People accumulate sleep debt surreptitiously. Studies show that such short-term sleep deprivation leads to a foggy brain, worsened vision, impaired driving, and trouble remembering. Long-term effects include obesity, insulin resistance, and heart disease. And most Americans suffer from chronic deprivation.
Ref: William C. Dement, founder of the Stanford University Sleep Clinic.
There is no “one-size-fits-all” answer for patients at risk for heart trouble, however, changing your diet is essential. Why?
Most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.
“Heart disease doesn’t need to exist in the first place. And if it does, it can be reversed. The remedy is a plant-based diet,” says Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.
The cost of treating chronic disease (cancers, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, mental disorders, and pulmonary conditions) costs billions of dollars a year, putting an incredible burden on our country’s health-care system.
This map shows how much was spent treating chronic diseases cost in each state in 2003 (the last year for which data is available) and how much those costs are projected to balloon by 2023 without a change to the way our health-care system approaches these conditions.
15 percent of 600,000 angioplasties were unwarranted or appeared to lack medical benefit. A study published by Dr. Gregory J. Dehmer, a professor of medicine at Texas A&M University,
The call to attack artery-clogging plaque naturally is a challenge to the medical profession and an unspoken threat to the bottom line of the medical industry.
