Overall strategy is to: • Reduce Damage/inflammation and Increase Protection. • Determine adequacy of intervention via monitoring progress with heart scans and CIMT. • Step up therapy until the desired results are achieved: we want to reduce the rate of increase in the coronary artery calcium score to less than 15% increase/year (also known as heart scan). Steps to reduce heart disease: • Eat real food, think about your great, great, grandmother would have eaten. One of the most important steps to take is to reduce linoleic acid/omega 6 polyunsaturated oil intake by avoiding seed oils (i.e. safflower, sunflower, corn). Also avoid sugar, flour, and other simple carbohydrates, processed foods, and most restaurants (high seed oil use). • ...