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Raising a Heart Healthy Child with Congenital Heart Disease – Interview

Many may see the title, raising a heart healthy child with congenital heart disease, as an oxymoron in that you may believe that if the heart is healthy it will be free from defect or disease. Well, in the...

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Adults Living with Congenital Heart Defects

Currently, there are approximately one million adults in the United States living with congenital heart defects (CHD). Due to increased survival, this number increases by about 5% every year. These numbers...

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CHD - The Most Common Birth Defect

Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the most common birth defects. CHD affects 8 out of every 1,000 newborns. Each year, more than 35,000 babies in the United States are born with congenital heart defects....

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Defeating Heart Disease - The 15 Risk Factors

Defeating Heart Disease – The 15 Risk Factors (See Optimal Health Revolution by Dr Duke Johnson, MD. Dr Johnson not only has years of experience to draw from, but sites over 900 references in...

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NUTRITION'S INTERFACE WITH HEALTH AND DISEASE

OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS Nutritional science was characterized by two major phases in the 20th century. During the first phase, nutritional scientists discovered, characterized, and synthesized the various...

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Atherosclerosis and its risk factors

1. Atherosclerosis is a disease of the arteries that causes it to ‘harden' and affects both medium and large arteries. 2. It is the principal cause of heart attacks and strokes and is responsible for over...

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Congenital Heart Defect: And a Tiny Baby

First off i thought I should share who I am and why i am writing this. I am a mother of 3 children, only child number 2 came into this world with a bang, and he scared us to death. I am writting about all this...

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My Life Gifted Life

THESE DAYS, many people work in a nontraditional way. Just when most office workers are braving the Edsa traffic on weekday mornings, these people are at home brewing coffee, dressing up and getting ready...

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