FACT: Inflammation increases your risk of suffering a brain or heart attack by twice as much as having high cholesterol.
(Atherosclerosis: the build-up of plaque in the arteries along with its complications, begins with chronic inflammation somewhere in the body *1.)
Source: The American Heart Association *2,3,4.
According to the American Heart Association’s 2003 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update, almost 62,000,000 Americans suffer from stroke, which has remained as the #1 killer in the U.S. *5 for more than 90 …