Heart Disease Risk
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Vegetarian option
Vegetarian Resource Group
Understand vegetarian cooking, shopping, restaurants and more. Being a vegetarian can be an easy way for some people to control heart disease risk.
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Dangerous transfats
CBS News
See these two brief news reports and an article from CBS on the dangers of transfats to heart disease risk, and how to cut them from your diet.
Hormone therapy
NIH
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can increase heart disease risk, but it's more complicated than that. Read about it here.
Pay attention to salt
Low Salt Foods
Read this summary of recent findings about sodium and heart disease risk. Watch your salt.
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Calculate your risk
NHLBI
After you know your cholesterol and blood pressure levels, use this easy calculator to determine your heart disease risk and then, practice heart disease prevention.
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Learn how to eat all those veggies and fruits for lowering your heart disease risk.
Natural help
Healthy Heart Guide
Here's a brief article on some natural supplements for lowering your cholesterol, in addition to eating wisely and exercising to decrease heart disease risk.
Healthy heart recipes
Eating Well
Find lots of recipes to decrease your heart disease risk here. You'll see more at the bottom of the page too.
The risks
American Heart Association
See the factors that increase your heart disease risk.
Nitric oxide important
Suite 101
Read about the importance of nitric oxide to heart disease risk.
You can create an individualized recipe book for decreasing your heart disease risk by checking the foods you like on the list.
Prevention diet
Mayo Clinic
These diet tips can help you control your heart disease risk.
A quiz for you!
Cooking Light
Take this challenging Cooking Light quiz here and see what you know about diet and other measures for decreasing your heart disease risk.
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EBT for prevention
Heart Health Center
EBT (electron beam tomography) can help with early intervention to lower your heart disease risk. Read about the test here.
Medical tests
University of Chicago
See this article for the types of tests used for assessing heart disease risk.

