MGM Supplement: An Asprin a Day??

Another popular myth has been busted!

Many doctors advise their patients to take a baby aspirin every day to reduce their risk of heart attack. And this recommendation has been repeated so often in the media and in self-help books and web sites that even more people are taking an aspirin every day without even waiting for their doctor to recommend it.

Is this good advice? Probably not, accordingly to a new study done by Dr.Gerry Fowlkes of the Wolfson Unit for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Edinburgh Scotland. In a study that he presented at the most recent meetingof the European Society for Cardiology in Barcelona Spain he and his colleagues followed 3,000 men at very high risk for developing heart disease for an averageof eight years. Half of the group was randomly assigned to take an aspirin every day and the other half was given aplacebo. At the end of eight years there was no difference in the rate of heart attacks or stroke - or risk of death from any cause - between the two groups. In other words, an aspirin a day did not decrease the risk of heart attack and stroke and had no discernable health benefits in this study. Even worse, there were 34 major bleeds in people taking the aspirin compared to only 20 in people taking theplacebo.And if you looked at internal bleeding that was soserious that it required hospitalization, the risk was almost double for the aspirin users compared to the placebo users. The conclusion of this study was that for otherwise healthy people the risks of taking aspirin outweigh the benefits. The scientists cautioned that for people who have already had a heart attack the benefits of taking anaspirin a day might outweigh the risks.

I would encourage you to investigate natural alternates rather than relying on a drug to reduce your risk of heart disease. For example several recent clinical studies have shown that as little as 500 mg/day of omega-3 fatty acids, whether from fish or from supplements, can reduce the risk of a second heart attack in someone who hasalready had one heart attack by 30-40%.And, of course, the Landmark study showed that people who have used the Shaklee supplements for 20 years or more have 1/3 the incidence of angina, heart attack, stroke or congestive heart failure as people do from using other company’s multivitamins or no supplements at all.

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MGM Supplement: Hypertension

High Blood pressure runs in my family. So I'm very aware that I too, will probably have to fight this battle. About a year ago this started to become very apparent. I went to the doctor for anual check-up. My blood pressure was 130/98. Now I know that this isn't high compared to allot of people on medication, but for me it had never reached this level. The doctor told me that I was prehypertensive. It was really hard for me to grasp what I had done to cause this. I'm a very health consiouse person. I finally came to the conclusion that it is genetic and there just isn't much I can do about it.

April of this year I started taking Shaklee's Vivix, an anti-aging supplement. At first I was a little hesitant, about buying it. I ended up buying it, and WOW!! What a difference!! This stuff tasts great, my energy level is through the roof, and guess what..... My blood pressure has dropped significantly. In a check up this month my blood pressure was 116/65. No kidding.... I couldn't hardly believe it. I was trying to think if I had done anything else different. The only things I had done different from the last time was working in a more stressfull position at work, exercising less, and taking Shaklee Vivix.

Vivix is really great stuff. I encourage everyone who gets that list of things from their doctor to improve their health, add in Vivix.

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MGM Supplement: Are You Prehypertensive?

Hypertension is the third leading cause of death in the world, with 1 billion individuals worldwide affected and approximately 50 million individual affected in the in the United States. High BP increases the risk of MI, heart failure, stroke, and kidney disease. Kitteke et al. Identified high BP as a symptom of the "lifestyle syndrome," a cluster of conditions and diseases that result from consuming too many calories and too muck saturated fat, sodium, and alcohol: not balancing intake with physical activity; and using tobacco. Current knowledge about the prevention and treatment of hypertension with lifestyle changes and other effective early interventions has not been adequately translated to the public and to high-risk individuals. For example, Greenlund etal. Found that more than one third of persons with established stroke did not receive advice from a health care professional on dietary or exercise changes.

The seventh report of the joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure established the optimal BP as a systolic BP of 115mm Hg and a diastolic of 75mm Hg with the need to begin treatment when the patient has a systolic of 120 to 139mm Hg or a diastolic BP of 80 to 90mm Hg. The prehypertensive state initially requires health-promoting lifestyle modifications, not medications, to preven CVD.

For children, especially those with a higher risk of hypertension because of obesity, prevention is an ideal intervention approach. In the Bogalusa Heart Study, hypertension and obesity in parents and relatives increased prevalence of increased BP in elementary school children found that high systolic BP was 4.5 times more likely and high diastolic pressure 2.4 times more likely among obese children. Figeroa-Colon et al. found 20% to 30% of obese children ages 5 to 11 years from a high-risk population had hypertension. The response to dietary sodium may vary with the degree of adiposity in children and adolescents. Obese adolescents who changed from a high to a low-salt diet had a significantly larger decrease in BP compared with an insignificant change among non-obese adolescents.

Recommendations for dietary minerals that positively influence hypertension include limiting the daily sodium intake to less than 2400 mg (6 grams salt) and increasing the food sources of calcium, magnesium, and potassium. The preponderance of the evidence for a benefit from increasing minerals is for potassium. Healthy food choices to provide the preferred mineral balance include and intake of five or more servings fruits and vegetables, consumption of six or more servings of grains, and daily low fat dairy product intake of two to four servings. The effect of dietary modifications varies among individuals because of genetic factors, age, medications varies among individuals because of genetic factors, age, medications, and other host factor. Two recent systematic reviews of the effects of reductions in dietary sodium or salt found minimal effects for normal and hypertensive patients, particularly whites, but greater effects were seen for Asians and blacks and for maintenance to lower BP after anti hypertensives were discontinued.

In summary the best way to deal with prehypertension and hypertension is regular exercise and a proper diet. The recommended amount of exercise for adult is at least 30 minutes of exercise during most days of the week. Keep in mind that just exercising 30 minutes a day is the minimum amount so don't expect to see huge changed in weight or body fat when only performing the minimum amount of exercise.

As for the nutrition part: With our busy lifestyles now-a-day it is impossible to get the proper nutrition our bodies need without a daily multivitamin.

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