21 Days to a Healthy Heart is a must read for anybody who wants to live a richer, healthier life.
Thousands of copies of this remarkable book have been sold, and yet it is still the defacto healthy heart guide.
Ask your doctor for a complete lipid evaluation. In order to get reliable numbers, you must fast 10-12 hours before blood is drawn (you can drink water). Unless you are under age 50, total cholesterol (TC) and LDL are not reliable predictors of heart disease and are not delineated here.
1825 French lawyer and gourmand Brillant-Savarin publishes The Physiology of Taste, in which he says he has identif
Q: Do we have more heart disease today because we’re living longer?
A: No. Adult life expectancy in 1910 was the same as today. Average life expectancy in 1910 was just 45 years, but when you factor out infant mortality and young women who died giving birth, you were just as likely to reach age 75 as you are today.
