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Category Archives: Heart Disease

Health Benefits Of Dark Chocolate Growing

Monday, May 7, 2012

Good news on the health benefits of dark chocolate. More research has found that dark chocolate, eaten in moderation, has some pretty healthful benefits. In fact, at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, a symposium (Cocoa: Science and Technology) was given that was devoted entirely to cocoa and discoveries about our favorite indulgence. [...]

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Healthy Oils And Fats

Thursday, May 3, 2012

It used to be that we all believed saturated fats were bad for you, and your heart. Now some new work finds that while they still aren’t any picnic, these fats may not be so hard on your heart after all. What’s more, replacing these fats with other unhealthy options – highly refined carbs – [...]

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Sugary Beverages Can Harm Your Heart

Monday, April 30, 2012

Turns out by limiting your sugary beverages you might just be helping your heart. A new study published in the journal Circulation finds that men who drank just one sugar sweetened drink a day had a 20% higher risk of heart disease than those who didn’t drink these beverages according to Harvard School of Public [...]

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Low Carb Or Low Fat Diet Best For Losing Belly Fat?

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Important news on weight loss and heart health. When it comes to losing dangerous belly fat and improving the function of your blood vessels, it seems that for those who are overweight either a low carb or low fat diet will work just as effectively.
Doctors know that being too heavy, especially if the fat sits [...]

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Stroke Risk Factors Lowered By Citrus Fruits

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Enjoying oranges, grapefruits and other varieties of citrus fruits might just help bring down stroke risk factors according to some new research. While a healthy diet, full of fruits and veggies has been associated with lower stroke risk in other research; no one was sure why this happened.
For this latest work, the team looked only [...]

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Diabetes – One Of The Risk Factors For A Stroke

Sunday, April 8, 2012

More concern for those with diabetes. A new study finds that the longer you have this disease, the higher your risk factors for a stroke.
Doctors already know that the risk of stroke is two to four times higher for diabetics compared to those without the disease. The question addressed by this study was if the [...]

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Benefits Of The Mediterranean Diet Plan

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

You’ve heard nothing but good things about the Mediterranean diet plan- how it has been shown to bring a lower risk of metabolic syndrome, stroke, heart disease, even dementia. Now here’s another one. Eating this way may well reduce small blood vessel damage in the brain.
There’s some new research from the Northern Manhattan Study appearing [...]

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Benefits Of Exercise On The Heart

Thursday, March 22, 2012

We all know regular exercise is good for the body… now new research appearing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology finds benefits of exercise on the heart could help hold off heart disease even if you’re carrying more weight than you should be.
Fitness level may, in fact, be more important than the [...]

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Links Between Sunshine And Health

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

There are lots of statistics on stroke, but here’s one that will get your attention – every 40 seconds someone in the U.S. has a stroke. A pair of studies on sunshine and health presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2012 offer some fascinating insights into the risk of stroke. More than [...]

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Salt Consumption Reaching Worrying Levels

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

If you’re like most people, you’re probably taking in too much sodium each day. Americans salt consumption continues to be higher than it should, much of it coming from some pretty unlikely sources – staples like bread, chicken, cheese and even pasta according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that appears in [...]

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