The sad thing is that dying from heart disease is as preventable as dying from drug or alcohol abuse. Controlling factors such as diet, exercise, stress, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, smoking, and excessive alcohol consumption is essential if we are going to protect ourselves against this killer.
Heart disease can kill without warning.
Signs such as shortness of breath and chest pain may not even occur before a severe heart attack or stroke. Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, takes place without any pain. Many say that heart disease is an inherited disease. Logical thinking dispels this belief. Think of the Japanese, who suffer from a fraction of the heart disease that North Americans do and yet, when they come to live in North America and adopt a typical North American diet, their rate of heart disease increases to our level.