If you’re bigger around the hips and butt than you’d like to be, there’s some good news for you.
It seems that fat that settles around your thighs and buttocks may be better for you than a spare tire around the middle according to experts from Oxford University. A new review of the data on body [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
No doubt you’ve heard all the “heart healthy” claims made by many foods and diet plans, yet a review conducted by Andrew Mente, Ph.D. of the Population Health Research Institute and colleagues shows only some of these plans back up those claims with strong evidence of actually lowering your heart disease risk.
Until this work, there [...]
Thursday, December 31, 2009
A woman who is lacking vitamin D before she enters menopause may have a higher risk of developing high blood pressure in her later years according to new research presented at the American Heart Association’s 63rd High Blood Pressure Research Conference in Chicago. Only recently have researchers come to recognize that deficiencies of this vital [...]
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Most people, when they think cholesterol, picture fatty foods, plaque coated artery walls and heart disease. But there are more than a few things about this waxy substance that might surprise you.
1. Sky high cholesterol may be partly due to genetics – for some families it’s inevitable that LDL (bad) cholesterol will be in the [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
No doubt about it, your heart is one of the most important organs in your body. Keeping it healthy, or improving the condition of a diseased heart are always top priorities in medicine.
At the annual meeting of the American Heart Association, research confirmed the benefits to the heart of a lifetime of exercise, while another [...]
We all know that healthy cholesterol levels offer protection to our hearts… now two new studies published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention suggest another benefit – reduce cholesterol and reduce your risk of developing certain cancers.
The pair of studies conducted by a team of cancer researchers suggests low cholesterol doesn’t deserve its [...]
If you’re over 40 and you can sit on the floor, reach for your toes and get your fingers past them, some new research suggests this is a sign that yourartery and veins are flexible.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
If you drink lots of coffee and your diet’s not as healthy as it should be you’re more likely to have the symptom of a heart problem, abnormal heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation), according to some recent Italian research presented this week at the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting in Barcelona.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
A new and surprising cause of high blood pressure has been discovered.
People who live within earshot of traffic noise – loud engines running, constant honking horns and the scream of screeching brakes – have an increased risk of high blood pressure according to work that appears in the September 9, 2009 issue of the open access journal Environmental Health.
An Imperial College London team has potentially found new ways to prevent heart disease, by using a chemical that’s in green vegetables (the ones Mom always insisted you finish) works to boost a natural defense mechanism our bodies use to protect arteries from disease.
The details of the work suggesting that green vegetables provide protection against [...]
