It is the time of progress. The time of supercomputers, space shuttles, and many other wonders of technology. We have walked on the moon. We do our shopping at home via Internet navigation. We can not only talk with, but we can see the person we are talking to thousands of miles away. It is mankind"s greatest hour. Yet sadly, it is also our time of dying. Strange that no matter how advanced our society has become, our nation"s health hasn"t caught up. After all, heart disease, also known as cardiovascular disease, is our nation"s number one killer Preventive Magazine...
I can keep heart disease"s deadly touch at bay.

Like all areas of medicine, prevention methods change as new data accumulates and old ideas fall by the wayside. The enhancement of health and prevention of disease comes from looking beyond the numbers and statistics to evaluate the whole picture. Clinical experience, judgement, and even personal experience is as important to achieving a healthy lifestyle as are hard facts. Still, until we have all the scientific answers, judgements must sometimes suffice, and each of us must use methods of disease prevention before the last word or last judgement is in.