By age 11, 65% of kids eating a western diet already have early signs of atherosclerosis ("fatty streaks") in their arteries. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in men and women in the Western world (17.5 million in 2012 alone according to the WHO). It kills more people than all forms of cancer combined and 6x more women than breast cancer. This is despite the hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars spent annually on cholesterol-lowering medications, stents, and coronary artery bypass operations.
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Watch Forks Over Knives on Netflix and Sanjay Gupta's program from CNN called "The Last Heart Attack" to learn more (available on YouTube).