New research finds that the more overweight you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke.
Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the team followed 13,549 middle aged (45-65 years) Americans for nearly 20 years, looking to see if ischemic stroke risk was associated with several measures of obesity; body mass [...]
If you’re concerned about your blood pressure numbers, and are looking for a way to loose weight, a low-carb diet is your best bet according to some new research appearing in the January 25, 2010 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
In the study, overweight or obese subjects who followed a low-carb diet lost [...]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
A recent American Heart Association survey of American adults found that 4 in 10 (39%) believe they have ideal heart health, yet 54% of these same people (a whopping 70% of all respondents) had also been told by a health professional that they had a risk factor for heart disease and/or needed to make a [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Yet another reason to have more sex – A study in the January 15, 2010 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology finds men who said they had sex once a month (or less) had a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than men who had sex two times a week (or more).
While there has been [...]
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 [...]
