Air Pollution Increases Fatal Heart Attacks

Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Byron J. Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist
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Researchers have demonstrated that as small particulate air pollution rises in the summer months, so do deaths from heart attacks1. Rising pollution was clearly a problem, even when it was within EPA Eicosapentanoic acid. Type of long chain essential fatty acid - Omega 3 oil. Works in concert with DHA. Must gotten through food sources such as deep cold water fish or some limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. limits. The finding is relevant since 1 in 3 Americans lives in such pollution every summer. 

The risk from pollution did not exist in the winter – which is well known for other risk factors. Doing exercise you are not conditioned to do, such as shoveling snow, can induce a heart attack in someone who is at risk for one. The lack of vitamin D that occurs as the winter months progress, is also associated with a higher risk for a heart attack.

To protect yourself in the summer, it is best to use liver support nutrition like silymarin and/or circulation protection like grape seed extract or resveratrol Natural phenol or type of antioxidant found in red grapes, red wine. Research has shown beneficial effects as anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory agents along with supporting healthy blood sugar and cardiovasculature function.. To protect yourself in the winter, maintain a regular fitness program. Then, if you need to shovel snow it isn’t such a shock to your body. In addition, take at least 2000 IU of vitamin D every day all winter long.

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Referenced Studies:
  1. ^ Pollution and Heart Attacks  American Journal of Epidemiology,  R. A. Silverman, K. Ito, J. Freese, B. J. Kaufman, D. De Claro, J. Braun, D. J. Prezant.

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