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One Doctor's Prescription for a Healthy Heart

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That day, Ades was left with two profound thoughts. One was that he had not told his dad he loved him since he was about four years old. The other was that he was “programmed” to die at age 50. ­Recall that this was 40 years ago. Back then, most people ­believed that a family history of heart disease was a death sentence.

Fast-forward to today. As a cardiologist and director of a cardiac rehabilitation clinic in South Burlington, Vermont—which Gary J. Balady, M.D., director of Preventive Cardiology at Boston Medical Center, calls “one of the best in the country”—Ades no longer believes that “programming” business. Modern research has shown that a healthy diet and active lifestyle can go a long way toward preventing cardiovascular disease—and conditions, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, that predispose one to developing it. Even people who’ve already had one heart attack are not doomed to die of cardiovascular disease, says Ades. “I can look patients in the eye and say that they are going to live and live well—if they follow this advice.” (Start with Step #1, Know your numbers.)

Heart disease affects about 9 million American adults, killing one every 37 seconds. Traditionally considered a “man’s disease,” heart disease is also the number-one cause of death in U.S. women. In fact, a 40-year-old woman is eight times more likely to die of heart disease than of breast cancer in her lifetime.

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