Bypass surgery costs the patient approximately $30,000-$40,000. There are also risks (3%-9% mortality rate during or after surgery).

Over 50% of bypass patients have recurrences within five years.

Balloon angioplasty, another precarious, invasive form of treatment, costs the patient $15,000 - $20,000 and presents high risks of recurrence within 3 to 5 months.

Conventional cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as Lovastatin, may cost an average of $500 - 2,000 per year, per person. These drugs have various short-term and/or long-range side-effects.

A chorus of establishment voices, including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, claims that animal fat is linked not only with heart disease but also with cancers of various types. Yet when researchers from the University of Maryland analyzed the data they used to make such claims, they found that vegetable fat consumption was correlated with cancer and animal fat was not.

Your BMI is an assessment tool to be used in conjunction with your body fat distribution. It is not only important to look at your healthy weight range on the profile, but also to take into account where healthy weight range on the profile, but also to take into account where you carry that weight.

Regional patterns of fat deposit are controlled genetically and differ between, and among, men and women. It is generally accepted that, for most people, carrying extra weight around their middle ("apple shape") increases health risks more than carrying extra weight around their hips or thighs ("pear shape"). Overall obesity, however, is still of greater risk than body fat store locations.

Take this preliminary to see if your cardiovascular system condition could respond to nutritional therapy.