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Are heart disease and cancer risk inversely proportional to calories eaten from unrefined plants?
Unrefined Plant Food Consumption vs. The Killer Diseases
I insist that our low consumption of unrefined plant foods is largely responsible for our dismal mortality statistics. Most of us perish ...
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Does chelation therapy for artherosclerosis, clogging of our arteries, work?
I have seen (not read) the book Bypassing Bypass Surgery by Elmer Cranton, which claims that infusions of Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) can apparently clean out the arteries for cholesterol ...
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Can excessive intake of butter cause heart attacks at age 21?
Clearly fats increase the amount of cholesterol in our blood, which is a risk factor in heart attacks. On the other hand, cholesterol builds up over relatively long amounts of time.
Is it possible to ...
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Jump from building: die from shock induced heart failure before hitting the ground?
In my childhood days there was this proposition/myth that claimed there is a big chance that you'd die from a shock induced heart failure (hart attack/cardiac arrest) before hitting the ground, when ...
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Can a person die of heart attack caused by extreme happiness?
i have heard that some people die of a heart attack cause by extreme happiness like a person wins a lottery and is extremely happy and dies of heart attack due to extreme happiiness. Is it possible?
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Is cholesterol a significant factor in Heart Attacks?
When you watch most commercials for cholesterol drugs, they always have the disclaimer "Not proven to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke".
If the drugs which reduce cholesterol do not reduce ...
