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Many people take multivitamins to try to prevent disease. A recent study confirms that these vitamins do not prevent the leading cause of death in America, cardiovascular disease.
The study and its editorial http://bit.ly/RaLhNO showed that multivitamins had no evidence of benefit despite about 40% of American using them. so what should you do to prevent heart disease?
Here are my tips:
Concentrate on proven methods of reducing heart disease: exercise, weight control, smoking…
Many men in America are now prostate cancer survivors. But there remains a risk that the cancer can reappear and spread, causing pain and death.
Aspirin can help prevent recurrences of prostate cancer. In patients with an intermediate to high risk of cancer recurrence, aspirin prevented 50% to 80% of prostate cancer reappearance http://nyti.ms/16qtxFg. Aspirin is more frequently being recognized as a preventive of many forms of cancer.
Here are my tips for…
It is common to use aspirin to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. One baby aspirin a day is taken by millions of Americans to help to reduce or delay the occurrence of heart attacks. About 25% of Americans take daily aspirin (E. Jacobs and coauthors, J. National Cancer Institute August 10, 2012).