You may have seen Gloria Hunniford on the recent flora adverts stating that your heart age is your real age. This is true. Your cardiovascular age is more important than your chronological age as this will determine how long you live.
Two things that Gloria Hunniford gets wrong (and its not her fault as she is just a messenger to the medical world) is that cholesterol is the big factor and by going to the flora site and answering a few questions you will be given your heart age.
Well let's address these two factors:-
1. Is cholesterol the biggets factor in heart disease?
Cholesterol is wrongly thought to be the biggest factor and cause of heart disease.
A study called The Framingham Heart Study followed over 5000 patients in a 16year time period and found that 75% had normal cholesterol. Furthermore a more global study compiled with data from the World Health Organisation shows no direct relationship between cholesterol levels and death from heart disease.
Take a look at this picture:-
As you can see from the diagram above whilst cholesterol may be present it is plaque that does the damage inside your body and this is the problem that needs a solution.
2. Can you tell your heart age or cardiovascular age by answering a few questions as suggested by the flora advert?
The answer is NO. The only way you can tell your cardiovascular age is by having the heart viwed, scanned and measured preferably by a state of the art accurate device.
Thankfully this is possible and I will show you in this blog how and more importantly reveal the solution that is taking the world by storm and saving lives
To Your Health
Anita
