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You Have Control
The book is divided into two parts, the
first explaining why holistic heart health
is important. Kahn describes tools
and tests, such as calcium scoring and
measuring the thickness of the carotid
artery, that are used to assess an indi-
vidual's holistic heart health status. He
is emphatic about his belief that natural
remedies for heart health, such as diet,
fitness and stress relief are often just as
effective as many medications and inva-
sive procedures.
"I wrote this book because I want you
to know something both important and
liberating: You do not need to get sick,"
he writes. "You also don't need to have
your chest cracked open so a surgeon can
sew veins onto your diseased coronary
arteries. You don't need to suffer from
side effects of your medications, and you
defmitely don't need to be disabled or die
from heart disease decades before your
time:'
According to Kahn, you have more
control over this killer disease than you
think, but your first step lies is taking
this killer seriously. Most people don't.
Kahn suggests several natural
approaches to use to improve heart
health in Part 2, "Holistic Heart
Prescriptions:'
Organized by importance, the
chapters here focus on good nutri-
tion, healthy ways to prepare food, the
importance of fitness, emotional health,

a clean environment and supplements
— the latter a topic that continues to
divide medical health professionals.
Kahn provides a comprehensive list
of supplements to consider taking and a
brief explanation of their benefits.
He also recommends keeping a jour-
nal, calling it your "Lasting Heart Log"
to track all the things you do (or don't
do) to maintain a healthy heart.
A list of resources fills the final pages
of the book.
Kahn is convinced that no matter
the current status of a person's heart,
the recommendations he describes will
enhance heart health. For example, if
you have a family history of heart dis-
ease, he recommends what you need to
find out so you can give your best effort
to avoid heart disease.
If you've already been diagnosed with
high cholesterol, high blood sugar or
high blood pressure, he believes there's
still time to put his suggestions to work.
If you suffer from angina or have under-
gone stenting or bypass surgery, incorpo-
rating these recommendations can halt
the progression of your heart disease and
possibly reverse it. No matter where you
are on the heart disease continuum, it's
not too early — and it's not too late.

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For more, go to www.holisticheart.com . Be
sure to discuss your heart health issues with
your doctor before you make any changes in
your current treatment.

Rambam Study Shows Poor
Sleep Can Speed Cancer

I

n a study published in the Journal of
Cancer Research, Dr. Fahed Hakim
of Rambam Health Care Campus
in Haifa, concluded that poor-quality
sleep marked by frequent awakenings
can speed cancer growth, and increase
tumor aggressiveness, malignancy and
invasiveness. This is the first time a con-
nection has been made between poor
sleep and cancer.
For the project, Hakim, a pedi-
atric pulmonary and sleep expert
at Rambam, spent two years at the
University of Chicago and led a joint
team, composed of researchers from
that institution and the University of
Louisville.
While studies have long connected
fragmented sleep with fatigue and irri-
tability, this research project indicated
far more dramatic effects.
According to Hakim, over the long
term, disrupted sleep dampens the
immune system's ability to eradicate
tumor cells and contributes to the
spread of the disease.
Hakim and his fellow researchers
observed two sets of mice. One group
was allowed to sleep normally, while
the other had its sleep interrupted. The
mice were injected with two differ-

ent types of cancer cells —all the mice
began to develop malignant tumors.
After a month, the researchers found
that tumors of mice with fragmented
sleep were twice as large as those from
mice that had slept normally.
In a subsequent experiment, research-
ers found that the cancerous tumors in
sleep-disrupted mice were not only larg-
er, but more malignant and aggressive
than those in mice that slept normally.
The tumors of the sleep-disrupted group
were not static, but invaded surround-
ing muscle and bone tissues.

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