In Case You Are At Risk For A Heart Attack Here Are A Few Things That Could Help

There will be individuals around the world that will be at risk for having a heart attack and also the amount of individuals that have this risk keep growing each day. You will discover that many individuals actually believe that there is nothing they’re able to do about their risks. When it comes right down [...]

Heart Friendly Foods You Need To Be Eating

You already are aware of how crucial it is to have a healthy heart. Here’s a thought: How can the rest of your body remain healthy if your heart is in unhealthy? You already are aware that regular workout and a healthy lifestyle are imperative in terms of the general health of your heart. Are [...]

Medical societies maintain secret financial ties to drug companies

(Natural News) There are many interlocking financial conflicts of interest between Big Pharma and medical institutions. Many members of major medical groups, universities, and medical journals also have financial ties with pharmaceutical companies. These Big Pharma connections push dangerous drugs into the collective consciousness while keeping safe and inexpensive non-drug health solutions out of public awareness. Medical Journals and Big Pharma Dr. Marcia Angell, author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, issued this statement after her tenure with The New England Journal of Medicine as Editor in Chief: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.” Pharmaceutical companies even hire ghost writers to concoct favorable product reports. Then those companies pay corrupt doctors or researchers to sign those biased reports that are then published in medical journals. There have been occasions of medical journal reports claiming successful medical drug trials, but no one tried the drugs! These were totally faked trial reports. Yet they were published in medical journals and quoted by medical practitioners who prescribed them. This sort of dishonesty was part of selling Vioxx, the heart medicine that killed more than it cured for a few years before finally being withdrawn from the market. Funding Medical Societies The AMA (American Medical Society) is not the only medical society. It’s the largest and most encompassing one. But there are as many medical societies as medical specialists. Medical equipment and drug manufacturers infiltrate those specific specialty groups to sell their wares. An interesting recent expose on one such group, The Heart Rhythm Society with its 5000 plus mostly cardiologist membership, received half of last year’s $16 million budget from companies that make drugs and devices to treat arrhythmia. Adding to this influence, those same companies had 12 of the 18 Heart Rythm society’s board members on their payroll as consultants and lecturers. Do you see the revolving doors and dual membership conflicts of interest? They are not rare. They are business as usual and common with Big Pharma and government agencies as well. The Cancer and Vaccine Industries According to Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School, almost one-third of cancer research reports surveyed in the major medical journals had obvious conflicts of interests . Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/026314_cancer_research_studies.html#ixzz1XWVqDlyc The vaccine industry may be the most corrupt and influential aspect of Big Pharma yet. Health Ranger Mike Adams recently revealed a network involving the vaccine industry, the military, and the IOM (Institute of Medicine), a strange alliance at first glance. But the more one knows of the dark side of vaccinations, the more it makes sense for those demanding covert depopulation efforts under the cover of humanitarian aid. The IOM is as influential as it gets. Whatever they say goes with the mainstream media and authority figures in all levels of government. If the IOM says a vaccine is safe and effective, there is no further discussion. Read more at: http://www.naturalnews.com/033455_Institute_of_Medicine_vaccines.html Money Talks Way Too Much We all need to make a living. But when money pervasively trumps truth and disregards health, there is no protection from the harm it causes. Sincere health practitioners and MDs who step out the Big Pharma box are persecuted and prosecuted for healing without harm. Their lives are often ruined. The liars who falsely promote dangerous drugs make plea bargains or pay affordable fines, if caught, after many are harmed. Sources for more information: Jon Rappoport quotes Dr. Marcia Angell and elaborates http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/faking-medical-reality/ Medical societies maintain secret financial ties to drug companies http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/medical-societies-financially-tied-drugmakers/2011-05-09 Big Pharma medical journal ghost writers write and doctors sign http://www.naturalnews.com/029945_HRT_drugs_medical_journals.html http://www.naturalnews.com/033455_Institute_of_Medicine_vaccines.html http://www.naturalnews.com/026314_cancer_research_studies.html#ixzz1XWVqDlyc

Heart Health Made Easy: How to Lower Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

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Q&A: If I want to lose weight is “fat burn” heart rate better than “cardio”?

Question by scrmomkt: If I want to lose weight is “fat burn” heart rate better than “cardio”? If I am doing cardio, am I getting the same benefits as “fat burn” plus more? I tend to be a run/walker, trying to build up my running- though I also “fat burn” on an incline at a [...]

Natural cure discovered for debilitating heart syndrome POTS

(NaturalNews) Imagine simply standing up and feeling your heart speed up more than 30 beats a minute — sometimes it races well over 120 beats a minutes. You also have heart palpitations out the blue and low stroke volume (the amount of blood your heart pumps with each blood). Even the amount of blood in your body is too low. These are the symptoms of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) — dubbed “The Grinch Syndrome” because the majority of patients have a heart that is literally, to use Dr. Seuss’ description of the Grinch’s heart, “two sizes too small.” POTS affects about 500,000 people in the U.S., primarily young women. And while it isn’t life-threatening, it can destroy the quality of a person’s life and cause substantial disability by bringing on symptoms such as dizziness, lightheadedness, fatigue, inability to stand for prolonged periods of time (chronic orthostatic intolerance) and fainting. But now there’s evidence POTS can be cured without drugs or surgery, according to research just published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Medical Association . It isn’t the easiest “prescription” for many POTS sufferers but knowing they can be cured may be enough to get them started on this natural path to total healing. The treatment? Regular exercise. “The exercise training program is a resounding success in the treatment of POTS,” Benjamin Levine, M.D., senior study author and director at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, said in a statement to the media. As anyone with POTS knows, the condition can cause such dizziness and fatigue that exercise can seem downright impossible. But the researchers figured out a way to help POTS sufferers begin exercising safely. “The unique component is to start training in a recumbent (semi-reclining) position, which is important to those who can’t tolerant standing. This strategy avoids the upright position that produces symptoms. We don’t even let patients stand up to exercise for one or even two months,” explained Levine who is also professor of medicine and cardiology and distinguished professorship in exercise science at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. “However, to maintain the benefits these patients will need to incorporate the training program into their everyday lives indefinitely.” There are a variety of recumbent or sitting exercises include cycling with a recumbent bike, rowing and swimming. Dr. Levine and his research team recommend exercise training for POTS patients that progressively increases in intensity, frequency and duration. The training regime, they said, should start with 30 to 45 minute sessions, two to four times per week. Eventually, patients work up to exercising five to six hours each week and they are encouraged to exercise upright when they are able to. For the recent study, the scientists worked with 18 women (average age 27) and one man who completed a double-blind drug trial. The POTS sufferers were randomized to receive either the beta blocker propranolol, commonly prescribed for their heart condition, or a placebo for four weeks. After that time period, the research subjects participated three months of exercise training. There was also a control group of 15 non-POTS healthy participants who participated in the study. The results of the study showed that all POTS patients who completed the exercise training showed improvement in physical function scores. What’s more 95 percent of them showed improvement in their ability to function socially. Every single POTS patient who completed the exercise regime showed an improvement in heart rate responses and over half – 53 percent – were actually “cured” of their POTS. That means their change in heart rate with standing no longer met the diagnostic criteria for the syndrome. More good news for POTS sufferers: aldosterone-to-renin ratio (the regulation of sodium balance, fluid volume and blood pressure) has long been known to be low in people with POTS and the standard drug therapy given these people does nothing to help. But not so with the all-natural exercise regime — the aldosterone-to-renin ration, which plays a critical role in how the body handles changes to blood circulation during prolonged standing, showed a dramatic increase in the POTS patients who worked out regularly. The researchers’ analyses also showed the group receiving beta blocker drugs showed no change in social function scores and very few patients taking the drugs improved their physical function scores at all. “Exercise training is superior to the beta blocker in restoring upright blood circulation, improving kidney function and dramatically improving quality of life,” Qi Fu, M.D., Ph.D., study first-author and assistant professor of internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, concluded in the statement to the media. For more information: www.heart.org/news

How doctors are bought off by medical device makers

(NaturalNews) When it comes to advertising, are doctors really immune? Every year, millions of dollars are spent by pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers in attempts to win over physicians. All-expense-paid trips to Hawaii, season tickets to sporting events, lavish dinners, expensive wine, T-shirts, hats, key chains and pens. All of this, of course, endorsed by Company X. No wonder doctors are drinking the Kool-Aid. In a recent investigation, ProPublica reporters Charlie Ornstein and Tracy Weber took a closer look at the relationship between medical device manufacturers and the friends they pay to like them: medical groups and societies. The topic isn’t anything new; corruption in the medical industry is a sad but well-known truth. Ornstein and Weber, however, uncovered some startling statistics about just how much money is being spent to influence medical societies and why patients ought to do their own research before opting for a surgery or risky procedure with a doctor-recommended medical device. The community that Ornstein and Weber analyzed closely is the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). Citing information from the society’s websites and tip sheets about medical devices, such as an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, Ornstein notes that patients aren’t given any information about the potential risks associated with such products or are led to believe they are safer than they may be: “In several instances, we found that the society’s materials or testimony appear to either omit information about side effects or limitations or downplay them.” The investigation also revealed that more than one in five patients who receives a device promoted by the Heart Rhythm Society may not actually meet the scientific criteria for getting one. If that’s not cause enough for alarm, consider that a typical medical device could cost around the same amount as an average person’s yearly salary. The response from doctors and the society itself is a typical one: the money is spent on important research that can help the development process of effective treatments. Weber, however, notes that individual doctors and institutions are given money for research, while societies don’t do research on their own. The money societies receive may support educational conferences and the like but does not go toward product development. In his article, “How the Heart Rhythm Society Sells Access,” Dan Nguyen calls the society’s annual conference “a marketing bonanza for drug companies and medical device makers.” At the 2010 conference, $5 million dollars were funneled into everything from exhibits to key chains – all in attempts to buy off HRS gatekeepers. Johnson and Johnson spent $20,000 to have newspapers delivered to hotel doors. Ascent Healthcare Solutions dropped $4,000 on exhibit hall carpet logos. St. Jude, Inc. spent $60,000 on hotel keycards with the organization’s name and logo. Medtronic spent $50,000 on shuttle buses. The HRS doesn’t only receive money for conferences and educational resources. Its board members – 12 of 18 directors – are also paid to act as speakers and consultants for medical device companies. But these kinds of relationships aren’t unique to the HRS. Other medical societies, such as The American Society of Hypertension, have been reported to have similar “arrangements.” Ornstein notes that the real danger is the uninformed patient. If doctors remain under the sway of their slick, rich friends – despite their best intentions to stay neutral – the integrity of medical care will always be compromised: “I think that patients don’t really understand the role that medical societies play in American medicine today. They help write the treatment guidelines that are used by doctors across the country to decide what drugs or devices patients get. They lobby Congress about reimbursement issues, about new products, about research into particular diseases. They’re the ones that put up the information on their websites for patients. And there is a concern that when you have that much power and you’re sort of hidden from the American public, that there’s an opportunity to sort of leverage that to influence an entire specialty as opposed to just a single physician.” Sources for this article include: http://www.propublica.org/special/heart-rhythm-convention-ads http://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/podcast-influencing-physicians-one-ad-at-a-time/ http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/HRS/26374 http://www.minnpost.com/healthblog/2011/05/09/28106/financial_ties_between_physicians%E2%80%99_groups_and_medical_companies_can_be_substantial_report_reveals http://www.theheart.org/article/1222603.do

How Vitamins Can Prevent Heart Attack

As we all know, vitamins are very important when it comes to preventing heart attacks. We need to eat the correct foods of course, but we also need to supplement the food we eat with the necessary vitamins that our body needs to stay in shape and prevent ourselves from heart attack. If we do [...]

News coverage about a flawed omega-3 study reveals truth about media’s inaccurate health reporting

(NaturalNews) Scientists have conducted numerous studies (http://www.naturalnews.com/omega-3.html) over the past decade showing the remarkable health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids — the kind of “good” fat found in cold water fish like salmon and some plant foods such as walnuts. Recently, Dutch researchers published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine which involved adding a small amount of marine source omega-3s to the diets of heart patients. Instead of actually reporting the details of this study and placing the findings in the context of previous scientific research, the mainstream media went, predictably, for the easy headline. The result? Widespread inaccurate and even downright misleading headlines and sloppy reporting that hinted — and even sometimes declared — the Dutch study was proof omega-3s aren’t so great for the heart after all. For example, Time magazine blared: “Omega-3 May Reduce Heart Risks Less Than Thought”. Another case in point: “Omega-3 Fats No Magic Answer to Heart Problems” declared U.S. News and World Report . The latter article also started off with the highly questionable statement that “Omega-3 fatty acids might not be as potent a weapon against heart disease as some research has shown, a new study suggests.” So what exactly was wrong with this coverage? It distorted the specific facts of a scientific study — which is not only bad journalism but denies the public accurate information about medical research. First of all, the new study does not conclude, nor prove, that “omega-3s may reduce heart risks less than thought”. Instead, it shows only that a low dose of omega-3s failed to offer any additional cardiovascular protection to a very specific group of people — those diagnosed with heart disease who had already suffered from heart attacks and who were all taking an “optimal”, i.e. multi, regimen of all kinds of prescription drugs (for cholesterol, hypertension, and to prevent blood clots). The new study, as the majority of mainstream media failed to even mention, did nothing to refute previously clinically substantiated findings that omega-3s (in high enough doses) overall reduce the risk of second heart attacks as well as the risk of sudden death. In fact, the Dutch researchers behind the new study admitted — if reporters bothered to actually read the research thoroughly — that one obvious explanation for their findings was that the omega-3s simply didn’t do anything to override or change the combined power of all the cardiac drugs the nearly 5,000 heart patients in the study were taking. A similar German study last year came up with the same results. And, just like the Dutch research, the German scientists’ conclusions in no way negate the long-term health protective value of omega-3s for people who are not already heart patients taking multiple drugs. The head researcher of the 2009 German study, Jochen Senges, said in a media statement that while his research team could not find any additional benefits of omega-3s within a year after patients were placed on multiple heart drugs “…it would be incorrect to say that omega-3 fatty acids are not effective.” So what did the new Dutch research actually show? The scientists added low doses of omega-3s to four different kinds of margarines and gave them to heart patients every day for more than three years. At the end of this period, the low dose omega-3s from fish oils hadn’t added any heart protection to the patients who, as stated earlier, were all taking a variety of Big Pharma prescription meds. In fact, about 14 percent of the heart attack patients had experienced another major cardiovascular event, and some had died. Women in the study who consumed low dose fish derived omega-3s added to ALA (alpha-linolenic acid, the plant-form of omega-3s) were almost one third less likely to develop more cardiac complications. However, this was deemed to be not quite enough of an impact to be statistically significant. Bottom line: the Dutch study showed low doses of omega-3s don’t do anything to help people who already have heart disease and have had myocardial infarctions and who also take a variety of drugs. But the research does not negate the host of previous studies that have found cardioprotective benefits at higher doses. And it certainly does not mean — as the spurious U.S. News and World Report headline implied — that all the well documented studies showing omega-3s do have important cardiovascular benefits were somehow just an attempt at “magic”. For a detailed analysis of what the growing body of scientific research has revealed about omega-3s and heart health, check out a study just published in the journal Thrombosis and Haemostasis that has received virtually no media attention. Among the conclusions of a team of Italian scientists from the University of Milan: omega-3 fatty acids reduce overall mortality and mortality due to heart attacks and sudden death in patients with congestive heart disease; fish oil rich in omega-3s reduces heart rate, a major risk factor for sudden death; and consuming adequate omega-3s leads to a 10 to 33 percent net decrease in triglyceride levels. For more information: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1003603 http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/thrombosis-and-haemostasis/contents/archive/issue/special/manuscript/13498.html

Healthy Living: Family fights heart defect for second time

Healthy Living: Family fights heart defect for second time Each year, more than 25,000 babies are born with a congenital heart defect. Some of these conditions are so severe only multiple surgeries and a lifetime of medications can correct the problem. Others may need a heart transplant, but there is something else needed to fight [...]

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