Heart Disease

Conventional wisdom says: Following popular nutritional advice - including making certain that your diet is low in saturated fats and cholesterol, and rich in calcium - is the best way to prevent heart disease.

Now The Calcium Lie reveals:
Excess calcium in the body and an imbalance of other essential minerals leads to calcification and a hardening of the arteries (calcific plaque), increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and hypertension. This condition often leads doctors to prescribe statins and other drugs which very often have dangerous side effects.

Here's some additional information you'll learn about heart disease by reading The Calcium Lie by Dr. Robert Thompson and Kathleen Barnes.

- Calcium excess causes the presence of calcification, concretions, or gravel-like calcium deposits in arteries (calcific plaque) often leading to heart attacks and other dangerous consequences.

- Excess calcium in the body leads to mineral deficiency, which in turn leads to the need to take more medications (including statins like Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor) to control heart disease, and many of these medications have very dangerous side effects. Many doctors prescribe these drugs in the belief that cholesterol is the problem.

- More than 25 million prescriptions have been written for statin drugs, prescribed by doctors in the erroneous belief that these medications will prevent another heart attack. In fact, despite the massive quantity of these expensive prescription drugs dispensed around the world, the rate of heart attacks has remained unchanged over the last 20 years while the companies manufacturing these drugs bring in $20 billion a year selling these medications.

- Accepting the conventional wisdom that our bodies need more calcium can have dangerous consequences with respect to heart disease. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal found that calcium supplements may boost the risk of heart attacks in older women.

To learn more about heart disease, read The Calcium Lie.