Research Paper on:
Heart Disease Prevention and Exercise

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in the United States. Included are the preventative methods recommended by researchers which include exercise...] Heart disease in the United States is responsible for the death of five times as  many women than is breast cancer yet many women are not aware of this fact. In addition, over four million Americans have congestive heart failure that costs the health care  system over $10 billion annually. Regardless of the high risks of heart disease and failure which are reported, researchers have found that exercise and other preventative methods can reduce the  risk of heart disease by 50 percent and exercise applied to those who have experienced congestive heart failure also helps in improving the overall functionality of the patient. Overall, researchers  have found that exercise combined with quitting smoking, reducing cholesterol levels, loss of weight in those who are overweight and for women, the addition of hormone replacement therapy during and  after menopause, are all the best preventative measures at lowering the risk of heart disease. [Research relating to national polls about the education needed in the general population in  regards to the prevalence of heart disease compared to breast cancer as an example. Other examples could be used for comparisons...] While the  information about breast cancer in women has increased and women generally seem worried about the risk and chance of breast cancer, few women actually realize that for every woman that  dies of breast cancer, five die of heart disease. In a series of recent polls conduction on behalf of Prevention Magazine, only 37% of those polled were aware that the  risk of dying from heart disease is greater than that of dying from breast cancer (Prevention, 1997). Largely, the American population believes that heart disease is mostly affiliated with men