Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.

Today's podcast is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

I'm Kara Carper, a licensed nutritionist and board certified nutrition specialist.

I'm pleased to be here today with Melanie Beasley, a registered and licensed dietitian.

February is American Heart Month, which is a time to raise awareness of heart disease and also give tips for prevention.

You know, heart disease is the number one cause of death for both women and men in the United States. Yeah, the

statistics are alarming really when it comes to heart disease. But we're here today to give you and your

loved ones nutritional and lifestyle solutions. And our topic today is specifically geared towards

men and heart disease. Hopefully we've had some of our regular male listeners

tuning in. So please take a moment, share this podcast if you have a male in your life

who would benefit from hearing this information, which really is everyone. It really is, yeah.

So we'd encourage you to pass this on when you're done listening.

The Centers for Disease Control reported that 50% of our population is actually at risk of heart disease.

And there are multiple risk factors.

We'll go over all of those.

It's hard to wrap my head around this number.

But the CDC also says one person dies every 34

seconds from cardiovascular disease. Essentially, two people die every minute from heart disease. And I

find that just astounding. Two people every minute. So in our show today, we want to be discussing the most common type of heart disease, Cara.

I want to talk about the average age that men experience cardiac incidents versus women,

because we do hear a lot about women.

So I love that we're focusing on our male population today. I do as well. And we're going to go

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