Will County Health Department Encourages Heart Healthy Lifestyle
During February, which is heart health month, the Will County Health Department wants us all to reduce our heart disease risk.
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of US deaths and disability. The Will County Health Department believes the month of February is a good time to consider our heart health.
"Fortunately, virtually everyone can dramatically reduce their personal heart disease risk through a healthy lifestyle and excellent control of important cardiovascular risk factors," Vic Riato, Media Services Manager said in a written release.
The path to heart disease often begins early. Obesity and high blood pressure have become epidemic among children and young adults. By exercising regularly, watching your diet and avoiding tobacco, children can develop heart-healthy habits that can protect them from heart attacks and stroke.
In addition to addressing the problem at an early age, the Will County Health Department said women are at a large risk of dying from heart disease.
"One in three American women die of heart disease and national studies suggest that many females know next to nothing about heart health," Riato states in a written release.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women, yet, a recent national study endorsed by the US Department of Health and Human Services found that only 57 percent of surveyed females knew that. Additionally, the study indicated most women don't recognize the connection between chronic risk factors (like high blood pressure), and the potential for developing debilitating heart disease.
Heart health is immediately improved by regular exercise, a healther diet
and smoking cessation can help you improve your heart health. The Will County Health Department offers Freedom from Smoking.
"We have about a 75 percent success rate," Riato said.
The class at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center began in January. The next class takes place in Braidwood. Class times are listed below. To register for a class, call the Will County Health Department at 815-727-8769 or register online at www.willcountyhealth.org.
Fossil Ridge Public Library, Auditorium, 386 W. Kennedy Rd., Braidwood, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
- Session 1: Tuesday, March 12
- Session 2: Tuesday, March 19
- Session 3: Tuesday, March 26
- Session 4: Tuesday, April 2 (Quit Day)
- Session 5: Thursday, April 4 (Follow-up)
- Session 6: Tuesday, April 9
- Session 7: Tuesday, April 16
- Session 8: Tuesday, April 23
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john davidson
7:39 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
NRT Failure Rate Soars to 98.4%
New revelations confirm that Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) has a documented long term failure rate of 98.4%.
PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 03, 2009 -
New revelations confirm that Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) has a documented long term failure rate of 98.4%.
NRT is the Government’s recommended treatment for its smoking cessation programmes and is heavily funded by the tax-payer.
Pro-choice group Freedom2choose are alarmed at these revelations and the obvious waste of tax-payers’ funds. Colin Grainger, vice chairman of the group states, “NRT products are obviously unfit for the purpose for which they are sold. This is fraud, wrong and immoral.”
Freedom2choose have previously highlighted alternative ways to successfully quit smoking, including the Allen Carr method, with a documented success rate of 58% for those choosing to give up. The Allen Carr method even promises a money back guarantee to those that don’t successfully quit.
john davidson
7:39 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
“More worryingly,” continues Colin Grainger “is the shock that the scientists who put the study together even work for the manufacturers of NRT. This clearly shows how the Big Pharmaceutical companies influence the outcome of studies.”
The revelations were originally made public by long-term anti-smoking campaigner Professor Michael Siegel who states “With a long-term smoking cessation percentage of only 1.6%, one can hardly call NRT treatment an "effective" intervention. In fact, the logical conclusion from this paper is that NRT was a dismal intervention.”
Reference: NRT Failure Rate 98.4% - http://www.tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/
http://www.prlog.org/10211087-nrt-failure-rate-soars-to-984.html
Friday, July 27, 2012
Pharmaceutical Nicotine and Chantix: 93% Failure Rate Reconfirmed
john davidson
7:40 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
A study published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine indicates that pharmaceutical nicotine and Chantix (varenicline) had 93% failure rates at two inner city academic health center clinics with predominantly Medicaid patients (abstract here).
http://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2012/07/pharmaceutical-nicotine-and-chantix-93.html
john davidson
7:41 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
Knowing that studies prove NRT quit rates are a failure the below claim must be bunk!
"We have about a 75 percent success rate," Riato said.