Despite 40 years of aggressive pharmaceutical and surgical interventions, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the number one killer of women and men in Western civilization. Clearly, a new paradigm is needed. As with most things, when it comes to CAD, prevention is easier than cure, and if CAD does present itself, a combination of conventional and alternative methodologies can truly make a difference in people's lives. "For decades, we—doctors and patients alike—collectively believed that cholesterol was the most important marker for cardiovascular risk, and billions of dollars have been spent bolstering that notion and developing and promoting treatments based on it. Our collective, single-minded focus on lowering cholesterol has several consequences, none of them good. It has caused us to pay relatively less attention to likely promoters of heart disease such as sugar, oxidative damage, inflammation, and emotional stress." Read more in Nutritional and Integrative Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine edited by Stephen Sinatra and Mark Houston. View the Table of Contents Nutritional interventions with both appropriate noninflammatory diets and targeted nutraceutical supports are simple and basic strategies to prevent as well as help manage CAD and congestive heart failure (CHF). This evidence-based book describes how to integrate nutrition, supplements, lifestyle changes, and medications for improved outcomes in hypertension, lipids, diabetes, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, and much more. It gives you a glimpse into what will become recommended practice for the prevention and treatment of CAD in the very near future. Sign up to receive future CRC Nutrition News Briefs.