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Preventing and treating chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke with diet and lifestyle changes is not just safer but may be dramatically more effective. New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Chronic disease, then—the leading cause of death and disability—may be a choice. See for example, Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cavities-and-coronaries-our-choice/). What do you choose? Why reduce a preventable disease just 90%? How about 99.9%? See One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/one-in-a-thousand-ending-the-heart-disease-epidemic/). More from the field of lifestyle medicine: • Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease/) • Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/convincing-doctors-to-embrace-lifestyle-medicine/) • Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fully-consensual-heart-disease-treatment/) • What Diet Should Physician’s Recommend? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-should-physicians-recommend/) • Barriers to Heart Disease Prevention (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/barriers-to-heart-disease-prevention) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eliminating-90-of-heart-disease-risk/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: KWMoore via Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

The current generation of American kids may be one of the first generations to be less healthy and have shorter lifespans than their parents. New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Here are the links to the videos I referenced: • Heart Disease Starts in Childhood (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-disease-starts-in-childhood/) • How Many Meet the Simple Seven? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-many-meet-the-simple-seven/) If you think atherosclerosis by age ten is bad, check out my video Heart Disease May Start in the Womb (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-disease-may-start-in-the-womb). Adverse effects with cholesterol-lowering drugs? See Statin Muscle Toxicity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/statin-muscle-toxicity/). I don’t think most people—doctors and patients alike—realize how relatively ineffective these drugs are. Watch, for example, The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-actual-benefit-of-diet-vs-drugs). Cholesterol can do more than just build up and block off our arteries. In fact, Cholesterol Crystals May Tear Through Our Artery Lining (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-crystals-may-tear-though-our-artery-lining/). What’s the Optimal Cholesterol Level? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/optimal-cholesterol-level) Does Cholesterol Size Matter? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Does-Cholesterol-Size-Matter) Watch my videos to find out. Let’s take a step back, though. What about all the “cholesterol skeptics”? How Do We Know That Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-do-we-know-that-cholesterol-causes-heart-disease) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-should-all-children-have-their-cholesterol-checked and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-should-all-children-have-their-cholesterol-checked. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages; you can find yours in the video settings. View important information about our translated resources: https://nutritionfacts.org/translations-info/ Image credit: Kristina DeMuth (cover image) and Nicole Qualtier. Images have been modified. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: By age 10, nearly all kids have fatty streaks in their arteries This is the first sign of atherosclerosis, the leading cause of death in the United States. So the question for most of us is not whether we should eat healthy to prevent heart disease, but whether we want to reverse the heart disease we may already have. Given the importance of this message, I encourage folks to please share this video with those in your circles. I know it's scary, but hope it's empowering at the same time. The bottom line is that we have tremendous control over our medical destinies. How do we go about reversing our heart disease? I address that exact question in my new live annual review presentation More Than an Apple a Day (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/more-than-an-apple-a-day-preventing-our-most-common-diseases/). Or, for shorter snippets: • Resuscitating Medicare (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/resuscitating-medicare/) • Eliminating the #1 Cause of Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eliminating-the-1-cause-of-death/) • China Study on Sudden Cardiac Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/china-study-on-sudden-cardiac-death/) • Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/our-number-one-killer-can-be-stopped/) • Heart Attacks and Cholesterol: Purely a Question of Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-attacks-and-cholesterol-purely-a-question-of-diet/) • Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol: Tolerable Upper Intake of Zero (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans-fat-saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-tolerable-upper-intake-of-zero/) Heart disease is a choice. Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-disease-starts-in-childhood/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Rrrrred and Kevin Burkett via Flickr, and Nephron via Wikimedia. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: Atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries may be more aptly described as pimples, initiated by the infiltration of cholesterol into the lining of our arteries. The ending, should blood flow to our heart muscle be cut off by a clot formed by the rupture of one of these inflamed pockets of pus in our arterial lining, is a heart attack. Cholesterol-induced zits in the lining of our coronary arteries can also occur in other blood vessels. In our head they can cause a stroke, in our back they can cause degenerative disk disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-and-lower-back-pain/), in our abdomen they can cause an aneurysm (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/abdominal-aortic-aneurysms-ticking-time-balloons/), and in our pelvis they can cause sexual dysfunction in both men (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/atkins-diet-trouble-keeping-it-up/) and women (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-and-female-sexual-dysfunction/). Thankfully, Avoiding Cholesterol Is A No Brainer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-cholesterol-is-a-no-brainer/). It's Purely a Question Of Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-attacks-and-cholesterol-purely-a-question-of-diet/). Trans fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol should be kept to a minimum. There are more than 80 videos on heart disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/heart-disease/) and also hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects at http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/. Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/arterial-acne/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: the Center for Disease Control/Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: By preventing the buildup of cholesterol in our blood stream, we can prevent atherosclerosis in our coronary arteries, the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women. This involves increasing our intake of fiber-containing plant foods and decreasing our intake of trans fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol found in junk food and animal products. More details on lowering cholesterol through diet can be found in Dried Apples Versus Cholesterol (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dried-apples-versus-cholesterol/), Amla Versus Diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-diabetes/), New Cholesterol Fighters (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/new-cholesterol-fighters/), and Eliminating the #1 Cause of Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eliminating-the-1-cause-of-death/). For more on the benefits of fiber, see Food Mass Transit (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-mass-transit/) and for more on what foods to avoid, see Egg Cholesterol in the Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/egg-cholesterol-in-the-diet/) and Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol: Tolerable Upper Intake of Zero (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans-fat-saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-tolerable-upper-intake-of-zero/). For more on the dangers of animal fat, see Largest Study Ever (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/largest-study-ever/). On the contrary, high-fat plant foods may not have the same effect. See, for example, Plant-Based Atkins Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-atkins-diet/). In the next video I will cover how to block the second step of heart disease in Making Our Arteries Less Sticky. Aside from heart health, there are hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects at http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/. Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/blocking-the-first-step-of-heart-disease/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Evan Amos via Wikimedia Commons. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center Grand Rounds “Nutrition and Cardiovascular Mortality” Kim Allan Williams, Sr., MD, MACC, FAHA, MASNC, FESC Immediate Past President, American College of Cardiology James B. Herrick Professor Chief, Division of Cardiology Rush University Medical Center January 5, 2017

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger's videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: The medical profession oversells the benefits of drugs for chronic disease since so few patients would apparently take them if doctors divulged the truth. Yes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but a pound isn’t that heavy—why change our diet and lifestyle when we can just wait and let modern medicine fix us up? Turns out we overestimate the efficacy of treatment as well, the subject of my next video, People also Why Prevention is Worth a Ton of Cure. Sometimes preventive medicine procedures can even be harmful. See Cancer Risk From CT Scan Radiation (nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-risk-fr­om-ct-scan-radiation) and Do Dental X-Rays Cause Brain Tumors? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-de...) I’ve previously noted how an honest physician-patient interaction might go in Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fully...). What should we be saying? See: What Diet Should Physician’s Recommend? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/w...) So why don’t more doctors do it? See Barriers to Heart Disease Prevention (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/barri...). More on Dr. Esselstyn’s heart disease reversal study in: Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/evide...) Of course then there’s just the brute force method: Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Kempn...). Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-a... and he'll try to answer it! http://www.NutritionFacts.org • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NutritionFact... • Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Podcast: http://www.bit.ly/NFpodcast • Subscribe: http://www.bit.ly/nutritionupdates • Donate: http://www.NutritionFacts.org/donate Rick

Since many tumors take decades to grow it’s remarkable that cancer risk can so dramatically be reduced– even late in life. New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ How amazing the human body is if we just treat it right! This reminds me of videos like Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease/) or How Many Meet the Simple Seven (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-many-meet-the-simple-seven/)? where simple changes can lead to tremendous differences in health outcomes. So please don’t allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good. Any movement we can make towards improving our diet can help. Though the earlier the better: See Heart Disease Starts in Childhood (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-disease-starts-in-childhood/) and Back in Circulation: Sciatica and Cholesterol (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Back-in-Circulation-Sciatica-and-Cholesterol). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-never-too-late-to-start-eating-healthier and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-never-too-late-to-start-eating-healthier. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages; you can find yours in the video settings. View important information about our translated resources: https://nutritionfacts.org/translations-info/ https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org