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Smokers are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as nonsmokers and heart disease is the No. 1 killer of smokers. Every year about 200,000 Americans by of smoking related heart disease and many more are disabled.
Oxidation of fats in the bloodstream can cause platelets to become overactive, aggregating or clotting too easily. The platelets form clumps which stick to the inside of artery walls. This process can lead to clogging of the arteries which eventually results in heart attack or stroke.
Vitamin E and Heart Disease
- In May 1993 to studies by researchers at Harvard University Medical School reported near identical results. The first followed the food and vitamin supplement intake of more than 87,000 healthy female nurses, from 1980 to 1992. The results showed that nurses taking a daily supplement of at least 100 IU of Vitamin E were 34 % less likely to have a heart attack.
- The second study followed nearly the 40,000 male dentists, pharmacists and other health professionals and similar results were found. Man taking a daily settlement of at least 100 IU of Vitamin E were 37% less likely to suffer a heart attack.
Both studies revealed that Vitamin E from food gave no measurable protection, probably because few of those followed were getting more than 8 IU (eight) of Vitamin E from their diets.
- In 1987 a group of Swiss researchers lead by Fred Gey published the results of a survey of studies from several countries which looked at vitamin blood levels and the risk of heart disease. His team found that people living in countries such as Italy, Switzerland and Northern Ireland where blood levels of Vitamin E were high, had a low to medium rate of heart disease. By contrast, in Finland and Scotland where blood levels of Vitamin E were found to be lower, the rate of heart disease was high.
- Anthony Verlanglerl, a researcher at the University of Mississippi
examined the link between Vitamin E and clogging of the arteries. His
team fed a group of monkeys a high cholesterol diet designed to produce
clogging of the arteries. The monkeys were divided into two groups, half
were given a Vitamin E supplement and half a dummy pill.
Results showed that the animals receiving the Vitamin E supplement had reduced artery blockage compared to the non-supplemented animals. Even more interesting was the discovery that when they changed the non-supplemented group over to Vitamin E some of the artery blockage could actually be reversed.
Vitamin C and Protection from Heart Disease
Swiss researcher Fred Gey analyzed blood samples from groups of about 100 healthy middle aged men in Italy, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Finland. He measured the level of vitamin C in these blood samples and compared them with the death rate from heart disease in each country.
The results strongly suggest that the death rate from heart disease is lower in countries where blood levels of vitamin C are higher. The report ends by stating that normal healthy nonsmoking adults need at least 100 mg a day of Vitamin C for maximum health protection.
Hans-Anton Lehr and his research team at the University of Munich in Germany recently reported their findings on Vitamin C and cigarette smoke.
In a series of experiments on hamsters Dr Lehr showed that cigarette smoke causes leukocytes and platelets to aggregate and stick to the walls of arteries and veins. This process is believed to lead to both heart disease and the lung diseases emphysema and bronchitis.
In their most recent experiment these researchers showed that giving the hamsters vitamin C almost completely prevented leukocyte and platelet aggregation and adhesion.
References
Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress, a Report of the Surgeon General, 1989. US Department of Health and Human Services.
Stampfer MJ et al. Vitamin E Consumptionand the risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women. New England Journal of Medice 328:1444-14449, 1993.
Rim EB et al. Vitamin E comsumption and the risk of coronary heart disease in men. New England Journal of Medicine 328: 1450-1456, 1993.
Gey KF et al. Plasma levels of antioxidant vitamins in relation to ischemic heart disease and cancer. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 45:13681377, 1987.
Verlangieri AJ et al. Effects of d-alpha-tocopherol supplementation on experimentally induced primate atherosclerosis. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 11:2, 131-138, 1992.
Lehr H-A et al. Vitamin C pretense cigarettes smoked induced glucose site aggregation and adhesion to endothelium in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol 91, pp7688-7692, 1994. Medical Sciences.
Below are some links of some of the health ailments commonly associated with
smoking along with some correlated nutritional research:
Heart Disease
Lung Disease
Mouth and Throat Cancer
Cataract
Periodontal Disease
Breast Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Stomach Cancer
Sperm Count- Fertility
Immune System
Toxic Metals
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