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Then, about half the participants also underwent angioplasty, usually with stents.

Over the next five years, 19% of those in both groups died or had a heart attack. Similar numbers of people in both groups -- about 12% -- were hospitalized for heart problems.

However, there were some benefits to angioplasty. People who had the procedure were 40% less likely to need another procedure to open up blocked heart arteries. And, particularly in the first two years, they reported better quality of life and less frequent episodes of chest pain.

But over time, some of the differences started to dissipate. By five years later, 74% of people who had angioplasty were angina-free vs. 72% of those who got drugs alone, a difference so small it could be due to chance.

Results Stun Medical Community

Boden notes that COURAGE is "the first properly-sized study to answer the question of whether angioplasty and stents reduce the risk of death and heart attacks in people with stable coronary artery disease."

The results came as a shock to many in the cardiology community -- even to the researchers themselves.

"The study was designed with the hypothesis that the combination of angioplasty and optimal medical therapy would be superior," Boden says. "But the results do not support its benefit in reducing heart attacks and death when used as an initial management strategy."

So why would so many doctors recommend a costly procedure without strong evidence it works?

The average cost of having an angioplasty was $38,000 in 2003, according to the American Heart Association.

Nissen thinks it’s because “it seems so intuitively obvious: If you open up a block artery, you’ll fix the problem.”

American Heart Association President Raymond J. Gibbons, MD, chief of cardiology at the Mayo Clinic, adds that there’s a financial incentive for doctors. "People get paid for how many procedures they do," he tells WebMD.

But this study "clearly shows there is no advantage to PCI [percutaneous coronary intervention, or angioplasty] as an initial strategy. It’s unnecessary," Gibbons says. "Angioplasty should be reserved for patients [who can’t be helped] by medical therapy."

Adds Nissen, "This study will change a lot of thinking. The benefits of angioplasty in people with stable chest pain is very modest, at most. It should be reserved for patients for intolerable symptoms."
Results Questioned

But many doctors who perform angioplasties say the procedure’s proven benefits in relieving angina, or chest pain, is getting lost in the shuffle.

Donald Baim, MD, chief medical officer of Boston Scientific, a manufacturer of drug-eluting stents, says, "COURAGE is not a catastrophic failure. [It shows that angioplasty plus stents] improves symptoms."

Marty Leon, MD, of Columbia University Medical Center, says, "There are so many deep flaws in the way this study was executed and planned. It was rigged to fail," and it did. "This study should not affect treatment patterns."

Boden says the criticism is unfounded, pointing out that the researchers purposely studied people at medium to high risk of having a heart attack or dying -- "the very people you would expect to benefit most from the procedure."

 By Charlene Laino

WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

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 By Charlene Laino
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

March 26, 2007 (New Orleans) -- Hundreds of thousands of Americans may
undergo unnecessary angioplasty and stent procedures to open clogged heart
arteries each year, a landmark study suggests.

The long-awaited results show that people with stable coronary artery disease
who got common medications to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels
were no more likely to die or to have a heart attack over the next five years
than those who also underwent angioplasty with stents.

Of the more than 1.2 million angioplasty procedures performed each year, at
least 50% of them are done on an elective basis in people with stable
coronary artery disease, says Stephen Nissen, MD, president of the American
College of Cardiology (ACC) and head of cardiovascular medicine at The
Cleveland Clinic.

In people with coronary artery disease, plaque builds up in the arteries,
making it harder for blood to get through, thereby depriving the heart muscle
of oxygen. This can lead to chronic chest pain that worsens during exercise
and to heart attacks.

During angioplasty, a balloon at the end of a long tube is threaded through
an artery in the groin. The doctor shimmies the probe up through the
patient's leg and into the arteries of the heart, inflating the tiny balloon
at the spot where the vessel has narrowed.

To keep the vessel open, doctors usually add a stent to the end of the
balloon catheter. These metal, mesh-like tubes prop open clogged arteries to
restore blood flow.

Angioplasty Still Best for Some

The study's results do not apply to people who get stents because they are in
the midst of a heart attack or whose chest pain suddenly gets worse, doctors
stress. For them, angioplasty is a proven lifesaver.

Additionally, angioplasty is better at relieving the chest pain associated
with angina, says researcher William Boden, MD, of Buffalo General
Hospital/Kaleida Health in Buffalo, N.Y.

"For an individual patient, angioplasty may still be the best option," he
tells WebMD. "But there has been an implication that if you give patients
drug therapy rather than angioplasty, you’re giving them less than optimal
treatment.

"Now we know that if you opt for medicine, you are not putting patients at
risk," Boden says.

The study, known as COURAGE, was released at the annual meeting of the
American College of Cardiology and simultaneously published online by The New
England Journal of Medicine.

Stent Patients as Likely to Die, Have Heart Attack

The researchers studied 2,287 people with stable coronary artery disease who
experienced chest pain for about two years, with an average of 10 episodes
per week. All had at least a 70% blockage in one or more heart arteries.

All participants were put on optimal drug therapy, which includes
nitroglycerin to control chest pain, beta-blockers to control heart rate, ACE
inhibitors for lowering blood pressure, and statins to lower cholesterol.

Everyone was also urged to exercise more and lose weight and quit smoking, if
needed.

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Stretch Your Food Budget Farther!

    Organization, Gadgets and Other Tips

        Keep milk and other highly perishable items on the middle shelf in your fridge, NOT in the door where temperatures fluctuate.
        Avoid mixing produce and meats in the same drawer, as cross contamination can lead to food waste.
        Avoid over-stocking your fridge, as a crowded fridge will keep air from circulating properly leading to warm spots that can cause spoilage.
        Avoid chopping up your fruits, veggies and meats before storage, as this will make them spoil faster.
        Glass mason jars make a great food-storage option, and you can seal them with an automatic vacuum sealer like Food Saver for even more freshness.
        Remove spoiled food from your fridge promptly to keep mold from transferring to fresh food.
        Get an ethylene gas absorber for your fridge; they’re available online and can keep your produce fresh up to three times longer than normal. There are many types of bags that can do this. They are typically called “green bags.” One example would be Debbie Meyer Green Bags.
        A gadget called the Herb Savor, which has a well for water and a plastic cover to keep herbs fresh, claims to make herbs last for up to three weeks.

Vacuum Packing: One of My Favorite Food-Storage Tips

    One of my all-time favorite tricks, which works for most produce, is to create a "vacuum pack" to help protect it from oxygen and airborne microbes that will accelerate its decay. Leave the produce in the bag it came in from the grocery store, place it against your chest and use your arm to squeeze the excess air out of the bag.

    Once the air is removed you can seal it with a twist tie and thus minimize exposure to oxygen. This simple technique can easily double or triple the normal shelf life of your vegetables by keeping air away from them. Alternatively, you can use an automatic vacuum sealer, like the FoodSaver available on Amazon, to do this automatically and create an even tighter, airtight seal.

    However, I nearly always store my food in quart or pint glass Ball jars. The FoodSaver brand also has a wide-mouth jar sealer attachment, which is ideal for sealing your leftovers, fermented veggies, sauces and other liquids stored in a wide-mouth jar, and can keep your food fresh up to five times longer. I regularly use it for extending the life of my vegetable juice and making my juicing more efficient so I don’t have to juice every day.

Food Loss and Waste is a Global Problem

    Curbing food loss and waste is something that should be a priority on both global food system and individual (consumption and behavioral) levels. As the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations reported:3

        "In developing countries the problem is chiefly one of inadequate harvest techniques, poor post-harvest management and logistics, lack of suitable infrastructure, processing and packaging, and lack of marketing information which would allow production to better match demand. The advice is therefore to strengthen the food supply chain by assisting small farmers to link directly to buyers. The private and public sectors should also invest more in infrastructure, transportation and in processing and packaging.

        In middle- and high-income countries food losses and waste stem largely from consumer behavior but also from lack of communication between different actors in the supply chain.

        At retail level, large quantities of food are also wasted due to quality standards that over-emphasize appearance. Surveys show that consumers are willing to buy produce not meeting appearance standards as long as it is safe and tastes good. Customers thus have the power to influence quality standards and should do so, the report said.

        Selling farm produce closer to consumers, without having to conform to supermarkets' quality standards, is another suggestion. This could be achieved through farmers' markets and farm shops. Good use for food that would otherwise be thrown away should be found. Commercial and charity organizations could work with retailers to collect, and then sell or use products that have been disposed of but are still good in terms of safety, taste and nutritional value."

Planning Your Meals Can Cut Down on Food Waste in Your Home

    The FAO report found that people in rich countries generally buy more food than they need, then end up throwing away the excess. They noted that "generally speaking, consumers fail to plan their food purchases properly … that means they often throw food away when 'best-before' dates expired." I've long stated that planning your meals is important for a number of reasons, one of which is reducing the amount of food that will go to waste, since you'll only buy what you need each time you visit the store, and you’ll have a plan in place to use it all up once you get home.

    I also recommend buying your food locally, preferably from a small organic farming operation you can visit and inspect for yourself. This guarantees that you get the freshest foods right from the start, giving you a few extra days of leeway before they spoil.

    Finally, for the packaged foods you do buy, they are often good beyond their expiration date. Unbeknownst to many, “best by” dates on many food packages are typically a measure of peak quality, not an indication of food safety. Typically, it is still safe to eat a food after the “best by” or “best before” date (the exception is infant formula, which has safety-based “use by” dates).

Thank You Dr. Mercola

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    If you’re like the average American, you waste more than 20 pounds of
food every month. This is because 40 percent of the food in the US goes
uneaten1 – that’s almost half.

    While some of this food is lost during production and processing (such as
produce that goes bad before it’s harvested), a significant amount is wasted
in people’s homes simply because it goes bad before it’s eaten.

Wasted Food Costs US Families Thousands of Dollars a Year…

    Not only does this amount to more than $2,000 in annual losses for the
average US household of four, but all of that wasted food uses up precious
stores of freshwater – about 25 percent of freshwater use is wasted on food
that’s not even eaten!

    Plus, this “throw-away” food takes up land space to grow it (which is
then doused with chemicals) and generates increased methane gas emissions in
landfills when it sits and starts rotting… it’s a massive unnecessary waste
on all fronts.

    Of course, you probably don’t set out to waste food. But if you purchase
fresh produce in larger quantities -- a must if you like to eat healthily but
don’t have time to run to the market every day -- it can be difficult to use
it up before it goes bad.

    Not surprisingly, these types of healthy fresh foods are the foods most
likely to be wasted. For instance, more fruits and vegetables are wasted in
the U.S. food system than are actually consumed (52% are wasted versus 48%
consumed).2

    The good news is that there are many tricks you can use to extend the
“shelf-life” of your fresh foods; you don’t need to resign yourself to frozen
or canned alternatives!

How to Make Your Groceries Last Longer: 27 Tips

    When you invest the time and money into a trip to the grocery store, you
    want to be sure the foods you purchase last as long as possible. The featured
     article has compiled more than two-dozen tricks to keep up your sleeve to do
     just that:

    Vegetables

        Store onions in old pantyhose to keep them fresh for up to eight
        months (tie a knot in between each one to keep them separate).
        Chop dry green onions and store them in an empty plastic water
        bottle. Put the bottle in the freezer and sprinkle out what you need when
        you’re cooking.
        When storing potatoes, keep them away from onions (this will make
        them spoil faster). Storing them with apples will help keep the potatoes from
        sprouting.
        Asparagus should be stored in your fridge upright in a glass of water
        (like cut flowers, cut the asparagus bottoms off first), and covered with a
        plastic bag.
        Store salad greens in a bowl covered with plastic wrap, and add a
        paper towel to help absorb moisture. A salad spinner will also help remove
        excess moisture -- a key culprit in wilting leaves -- from your greens.
         Mushrooms should be stored in a paper bag in a cool dry place, or in
        the fridge. Avoid storing mushrooms in plastic, as any trapped moisture will
       cause them to spoil.

    Fruits

        Swirl berries in a mixture of one part vinegar (white or apple cider)
        to 10 parts water. You won’t taste the vinegar but the solution will help
        keep your berries from getting moldy and soft.
        When storing chopped avocado or guacamole, leave the pit in, spritz
        it with some lemon juice or olive oil, cover with plastic wrap, and put it in
        the fridge. This will help keep it from turning brown.
        If you spot a rotten apple, remove it right away, as one rotten apple
        really can spoil the whole bunch.
        Put plastic wrap around the crown of a bunch of bananas to keep them
       fresh for days longer (and be sure to store them away from other fruits, as
       they emit a lot of ethylene gas which accelerates ripening).
       Store tomatoes at room temperature away from sunlight, in a single
       layer with the stem side up (don’t put them in plastic bags, which will cause
       them to spoil faster).

    Herbs

 

        Store delicate herbs like parsley, basil, cilantro and chives upright
        in a glass of water (like you would arrange cut flowers) in your fridge. Put
        a plastic bag over the top and secure it around the glass with a rubber band
        for optimal freshness.
        Bunch oily herbs like thyme loosely together, secure them with a
        string around the base and hang them in your kitchen for storage.
        Fill an ice cube tray with olive oil, then add chopped herbs
        (rosemary, sage, thyme or oregano) to each cube. Pop one out when you’re
        cooking for instant herb-infused oil.
        Store fresh ginger root in the freezer. You can grate it frozen (peel
        and all) when cooking.

    Dairy and Nuts

        Rub the cut side of a block of cheese with butter to keep it from
        drying out.
        Cheese should be wrapped in cheese paper or wax paper, not plastic
        wrap, then put in a plastic baggie.
        Store cheese in the warmest part of your fridge, such as the
        vegetable or cheese drawer.
        Nuts can be stored in the freezer to keep them fresh longer. Ideally
        put them in Mason jars that have the air vacuumed out with a Food Saver and
        attachment.

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In fact, this is a good place for me to say that Bill Henderson is not a
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Your “go-to” list of clinics and doctors who haven’t closed their minds to these alternatives!

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    A clinic specializing in immune boosting therapy. They use natural
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    Another immune recovery clinic incorporates nutritional and Chinese
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    Then there’s the clinic started by two leading cancer doctors over 35
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treatments. The clinic has helped more than 100,000 cancer patients. (page
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Let me be clear: many of the clinics you’ll discover in Cancer-Free use
conventional medicine as well as alternatives. That means you don’t have to
forgo conventional treatment, unless that’s your choice. You can enjoy the
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This secret multiplies the power of chemo 10,000 times —
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Bill Henderson reveals, you hang a bull’s eye on each and every cancer cell
so the chemotherapy agent goes straight to it and kills it.

You do need a doctor for this new therapy. It’s even FDA approved. Yet few
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    Are there scams in alternative health? Of course. Here’s how to spot them
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I almost forgot to mention the most surprising thing…
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