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Tips for Total Cardiovascular Health … and More Energy!

• Take EDTA oral chelation to keep your arteries free from heavy metals.
  
  
• Eat a whole foods, high-fiber diet including lots of colorful fruits and veggies, which contain heart-healthy flavonoids. These micronutrients—found only in plants—act as blood thinners and antioxidants that protect blood cells from disease. Flavonoids also help prevent blood clots, says John D. Folts, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison.
  
  
• Get plenty of omega-3 essential fatty acids. Eat two servings per week of cold water fish such as salmon, sardines or bluefish. Vegetarians should take flax seed oil or ground flax seed.
  
  
• Reduce your intake of carbohydrates! Carbohydrates, especially sugars and starchy food, convert to glucose rapidly, triggering increases in insulin levels. Not only will it make you fat but insulin is a culprit in atherosclerosis.
  
  
• Get out and exercise! Walk five or six days a week. It’ll help keep your metabolism higher—good for weight control—than if you walk less frequently. If the weather is bad, go to a mall. Or take the stairs instead of the elevator. Park several blocks away from your destination. Bike, play tennis, dance, hike—anything that keeps your heart pumping!
  
  
• Supercharge your diet with a good multivitamin/mineral complex.
  
  
• Stop smoking!
  
  
• Practice a stress reduction technique such as yoga or meditation; get a massage.
  
  
• Cut down on alcohol or eliminate it completely from your life.

10 Ways to Protect Yourself from Environmental Toxicity

1. Take EDTA oral chelation to clear your arteries of heavy metals.
   
   
2. Avoid eating shark, tilefish, king mackerel and swordfish. The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a warning that pregnant or nursing women, and those who may become pregnant, should not eat these fish because they may contain mercury levels high enough to damage the developing brain of a fetus. Although tuna—also reported to have high mercury levels—was not put on the FDA’s list, some states, including Connecticut, have urged pregnant women to limit canned tuna in their diet to no more than seven ounces a week.
   
   
3. Eat organic foods. According to Helen Caldicott, MD, an internationally known environmental advocate, "There are 80,000 chemicals in current use, and very few of those have been adequately tested." There are about 30 pesticides alone used for growing broccoli, she said in the keynote address for a national conference on Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Children. (May 2001, Boulder, Colorado.)
   
   
4. Drink plenty of pure, filtered water. In 1989, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that more than one million elementary schools, high schools and colleges were still using lead-lined water storage tanks or lead-containing components in their drinking fountains. The EPA estimates that drinking water accounts for approximately 20% of young children’s lead exposure. If you attended one of these schools, that lead is probably still in your body.
   
   
5. Wash fruits and veggies under cold, running water for at least one minute and scrub with a vegetable brush to wash away pesticides, additives, etc.
   
   
6. Don’t scrape the paint in an old home. Exposure to lead-contaminated paint during pregnancy and childhood permanently impairs children’s intellectual development. (Environmental Health Perspectives, 1996, vol. 104)
   
   
7. Work up a sweat! According to Michael Wisner, co-author of Living Healthy in a Toxic World (Perigee), studies of human perspiration have found the body uses its sweating mechanism to excrete heavy metals, medical and street drugs, and pesticides.
   
   
8. Use environmentally safe cleaning products.
   
   
9. Avoid using lawn and garden pesticides.
   
   
10. Take off your shoes to avoid tracking lead, dust and other contaminants into your home.

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