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| As the leading cause of death among Americans | | | | high, your heart must work harder to pump the |
| â in both men and women â heart | | | | blood through your body. When this happens, it not |
| disease is not the kind of condition with which you | | | | only strains the blood vessels, but the heart itself. If |
| can afford to take any chances. Those who have | | | | forced to endure this pressure for too long, the |
| diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure are | | | | heart can actually become enlarged, forcing it to |
| especially at risk. How ever, as Phoenix-based | | | | pump even harder and further increasing the risk of a |
| Southwest Integrative Medicine has discovered, heart | | | | heart attack. To help prevent and treat heart disease |
| health can be effectively managed using a | | | | associated with diabetes, high cholesterol or high |
| combination of both conventional and alternative | | | | blood pressure, you first have to know what your |
| medicine techniques, from neutraceuticals to clinical | | | | risk is. There are advanced cardiovascular screen |
| nutrition. Diabetes affects 23 million people in the | | | | tools that go beyond cholesterol and blood pressure |
| United States. Unable to adequately convert food | | | | which show your true risk. Once you know this risk, |
| into energy, their bodies cannot properly regulate | | | | any number of conventional and alternative ap |
| blood sugar levels. It's when these blood sugar levels | | | | proaches may be used. Obviously diet and exercise |
| are too high that heart disease becomes a threat, as | | | | are critical, as eating healthy low-fat meals and |
| high blood sugar can damage the blood vessels that | | | | normalizing weight are critical. If you have diabetes, |
| carry blood to and from the heart. Cholesterol can be | | | | high cholesterol, high blood pressure or any reason |
| as equally dangerous as diabetes to the heart, but | | | | for concern about your heart health, Southwest |
| only the "bad" kind of cholesterol that we get from | | | | Integrative Medicine can help, a team of naturopathic |
| greasy, fatty foods. It clogs the arteries and, in turn, | | | | doctors who understand and respect the benefits of |
| can lead to heart disease. What's worse is that there | | | | both conventional and alternative techniques. If you |
| are no symptoms associated with high cholesterol. So | | | | live in the Phoenix area and would like to explore |
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| have it, which is why it's come to be known as the | | | | to schedule an appointment with Southwest |
| "silent killer." High blood pressure can be a silent killer | | | | Integrative Medicine today. |
| too, as there are often no symptoms of it either. | | | | |