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Snack Facts: Impotence is Often an Early Indicator of Heart Disease

Here are some tiny tidbits on health that will hopefully make you hunger to find more information...

The size of the aorta is comparable to a garden hose.  The size of the blood vessels branching out our arms is comparable to drinking straws.  The size of the blood vessels servicing the penis is comparable to coffee stirrers.

 

Which do you think will clog first?

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Before experiencing arm pain or chest pain you may experience a different kind of “heart ache”.  If the temperature is rising everywhere but the bedroom during this heat wave, consider having your blood pressure and cholesterol checked!  It could save your life or save you a lot of money on health care.

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Save money on prescriptions as well.  Instead of reaching for a little blue pill, try reaching for a big serving of green veggies.  Instead of going nuts feeling, well, impotent over your situation, reach for a handful of walnuts.  At this stage of the game, if clogging is the issue, both the main problem and the peripheral symptom can be cured and the heart disease can be reversed through better eating.

 

If erectile dis-function is affecting a man you love rather than yourself, teaming up on a diet makeover may go a longer way toward restoring romance than a bedroom makeover.

 

One last thing, another organ, which is fueled and oxygenated by some very small blood vessels, is the brain.  Think on that…

 

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