About 81 million American adults have cardiovascular disease. Every year 1.5 million of those Americans have heart attacks and 500,000 of them die. We’ve come to believe that heart disease is unavoidable, that it’s genetic or that it arrives as a condition of age.
Heart disease is not only rampant in the United States. Any country that has adopted the Western diet and lifestyle has high rates of heart disease. But yet, there are countries in other parts of the world where heart disease is rare. Why is this? I will write about it more in my subsequent blogs. There is so much to share.
