HEART HEALTH SPEAKERS
The demand for heart-health speakers has never been stronger with health professionals and the public. That’s because heart disease remains the nation’s #1 killer or men and women. Each year Americans experience about 1.5 million heart attacks and 600,000 to 800,000 deaths – equal to the fatalities in ten Vietnam Wars!

Consider this. If you are an American, your relative chances of dying from the following are: AIDS 1: 1,000,000 Murder 1: 10,000 Auto accidents 1: 5,000 Heart disease 1: 2

Today it is well established that lifestyle habits (such as diet, exercise, smoking, stress and attitude) outrank genetics in estimating cardiac risk. For every one person with heart disease because of bad genes, 499 have it because of lifestyle habits. Consequently, both health professionals and the general public want to learn how to live a healthier lifestyle to prevent stabilize and even reverse heart disease. This is a particularly popular topic with women’s groups as it has only been in the past few years that this disease has been seen as common in women.

Says Joe Piscatella, a noted author-speaker on lifestyle and cardiac health featured on the www.barberusa.com website, “The challenge is to help people design and live a heart-healthy lifestyle in the real world. That means eating better, exercising regularly, not smoking, managing stress and having a positive attitude. Many audiences know much of what to do, but think they lack the ability to do it. That’s why I always share my personal experience of having coronary bypass surgery at age 32 and in 2009 celebrating my 32nd anniversary of that surgery. In addition to information and take-home tools, my story of living healthy in the real world provides motivation and inspiration.”