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People and populations with favorable blood lipid patterns have low rates of cardiovascular disease. Like Mexico’s Tarahumara and Bolivia’s Tismane, people living on whole-food plant-based diets in the poor developing countries in Asia and Africa typically have...

Evidence that heart attacks are largely preventable comes from an 11-year Swedish study. It found that adherence to a combination of healthy dietary and lifestyle practices could prevent nearly four of five heart attacks in men. Low-risk behavior included five...

The American Heart Association (AHA) considers lifestyle modification to be the foundation for CVD risk reduction. The AHA defines ideal cardiovascular health by the presence of a healthy diet, not smoking, body mass index 25 kg/m2 or lower, physical activity at U.S....

A single risk factor may predispose to cardiovascular disease. For example, inadequate physical activity may contribute to obesity, elevated blood pressure, and an unhealthy pattern of blood cholesterol—all of which are associated with a higher risk of atherosclerotic...

CVD risk factors you can’t change The risk factors predisposing a person to cardiovascular diseases include some that cannot be altered. These risk factors include: • Family history of early heart disease • Age • Sex (males are at greater risk at ages below 65) • Race...

It was once thought that the development and progression of atherosclerosis was a “normal” or unavoidable part of aging. But, we now know that its occurrence and progression with age can mostly be avoided by putting in place the Building Blocks of Health. Multiple...