Behavioral healthy nutrition and physical activity counseling in cardiovascular disease prevention: where we are now?

The decline in age-adjusted mortality rates attributed tocardiovascular disease(CVD)has been characterized asthe success story of the past four decades,worldwide.Inthe United States,a similar downtick has been recordedsince 1978.The rapid progress in the fields of preventionand management may be responsible for this promisinglandscape in the CVD spectrum(1).