Are you afraid to die? The truth is that heart disease is an equal opportunity illness and it has become the number one killer of American women. Ironically, because of the media’s attention to breast cancer, women are more afraid of dying from it than heart failure. The greatest danger for women doesn’t lurk in the breast at all; it beats just beneath it. For every woman killed by breast cancer, cardiovascular disease claims eight. That’s because, it prevents and/or treats many illnesses that shorten our life span, such as cardiovascular disease, strokes an