Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness. We have a very

important topic to discuss with you this morning, so we're delighted that you're listening to Dishing

Up Nutrition. Now, we know February is Heart Healthy Month, so this morning our show is about some of

the nutritional factors related to heart disease in women.

Now, it may surprise you that one in four women in the United States die of heart disease

every year. Heart disease is the most common cause of death in American women, according to the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services.

Now, we've got your attention, don't we?

Now, in the past, we only had to worry about men getting heart disease, but now we know that one in 16 women will have coronary heart disease.

The most common cause of heart disease for women is actually the narrowing or the blockage of

those coronary arteries that supply the blood vessels to the heart.

Now, as a nutritionist, the fundamental question I believe we need to ask is, what is causing

this dramatic increase in heart disease in women?

So, listeners, you may be asking, well, what causes the narrowing of the arteries?

Or what can we do to prevent disease?

Now, as a nutritionist, I know that food is very powerful.

So we want to share some of the new research about the causes of heart disease in women

and what we can do to prevent heart disease.

I'm Shelby Olson.

I'm a licensed nutritionist with a master's degree in nutrition.

And I am in the studio this morning with two fun people.

Now, first and foremost, I get to introduce Mel.

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