What Are Your Odds of Having a Healthy Heart?

Need healthy heart insurance?

It would nice if some enterprising insurance company would come up with a Healthy Heart Insurance policy. How about a 20 year Extended Heart Health Warranty, for the nominal premium of 30 bucks per month? Don't hold your breath. Insurance companies (and casinos) make their living by playing the odds...and the chances of the "average American" of avoiding a heart attack aren't so good.

More than 1.2 million persons have heart attacks each year, nearly half of these occurring in women. For 30% of these victims the first sign of a problem is sudden death. But you don't have to be one of these statistics.

Are you gambling your heart health away? Gambling or “gaming” as the casino owners like to call it, is an enjoyable pastime for many folks. I love the movie “Maverick.” Especially the riverboat “poker tournament” scene. When it comes to gambling for a healthy heart it makes good sense to have the odds on your side...that is if winning appeals to you.

A casino thrives by stacking the odds just a little in its favor. And so can you. Why do some people have heart attacks, stroke or cancer and others avoid these crippling diseases? Is it just the "luck of the draw" or can we lay the blame on our parents for transmitting bad genes?

Stanford researcher and author of WE LIVE TOO SHORT AND DIE TOO LONG, Walter Bortz, M.D. gives us some good advice on how to have a healthy heart. Bortz explains, "Several scientific studies prove that only 15% to 20% of heart disease risk can be attributed to our parents. It's not the cards you are dealt but how you play the hand."

Winning for me has always been more fun than losing...and I can vouch from experience that its better to be heart healthy than to have a heart attack.

Fifteen years ago a heart surgeon sawed open my chest and stitched bypasses to six of my favorite arteries. Six heart bypasses isn’t a record but it’s not bad for a "skinny" 59-year-old non-smoker with normal cholesterol and blood pressure, no family history of heart disease and no weight problem.

How to improve your odds
Do you like to gamble or like me do you prefer a sure thing? How would you like to improve your odds of having a healthy heart to, let's say 90%? You could clean up at the casinos with those odds.

A number of studies have conclusively proven that if you are a non-smoker, exercise regularly, eat the right foods and essential oils and take a all natural vitamins you can reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke by up to 90%.

Now those are odds you can live with. “That sounds interesting,” you say, “but who wants to give up all the good things in life? I’ll just live it up now and die young.” It’s not so easy to die young these days. The wonderful medical technology keeps us alive for a long time, feeling really, really terrible.

If climbing a few stairs has you huffing and puffing or if your doctor has advised you to lose weight, then you are not feeling anywhere near as good as you could. You need to improve your odds.

Your road to a healthy heart.

Will it take some effort to keep heart attacks at bay? Of course it will. You have to change some habit patterns and spend some time educating yourself—that’s your ante. But the payoff will be a jackpot of good heart health, energy and vitality!

Gene

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