A 243% Increase in Heart Disease Deaths?!
I’ll never understand why doctors think the answer to the heart disease epidemic is at the bottom of a pill bottle.
Has no one noticed that no matter how many prescriptions we write for high blood pressure or high cholesterol, heart disease STILL kills more people in the U.S. than any other disease?
I have a BETTER idea.
Let’s address the KEY risk factor that’s responsible for a 243-percent increase in heart disease deaths over the past 20 years.
You don’t have to be overweight to have heart disease. But it does dramatically increase your risk.
Estimates are that 80 percent of people with heart disease are also obese.
That’s because obesity increases your risk of high blood pressure and abnormal lipid levels.
But instead of addressing the root cause, doctors try to tackle its effects.
This approach isn’t just increasing people’s risk of heart disease… it’s killing them.
A recent study analyzed heart disease deaths over the past 21 years. Over that period, heart disease deaths rose five percent yearly.
However, obesity-related heart disease deaths rose 243 percent in men and 131 percent in women in that same period.
Researchers said they were shocked at the magnitude of the increase.
Really? Have they looked around lately?
With the dramatic increases in obesity, why wouldn’t there be an increase in conditions caused by obesity?
The bottom line is that if you want to slash heart disease deaths, you can’t do it with ACE inhibitors or statins.
You have to get to the root issues.
And obesity is a big one.
P.S. Simple lifestyle change slashes heart disease mortality by 39 percent!
SOURCE:
Obesity-related heart disease deaths increased in the U.S. over the past two decades, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2024, Abstract MDP1230, November 11, 2024
