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 [...]
Oh, now this is priceless, and I speak on behalf of people everywhere who have larger-then-they’d-like thighs. A Danish study published in the September 4th issue of BMJ has found that thin thighs might be an indication of signs of heart trouble, disease and early death in both men and women.
Hard to [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A new study in the August 25, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, tells of the importance of reducing high bloodpressure and links high blood pressure to loss of cognitive function in those over 45 years old.
Every 10-point increase in diastolic (bottom number) blood pressure [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Do natural remedies for high cholesterol really work, and do they have any credible studies to back them up?
Besides watching what you eat, and getting regular exercise, there are a host of dietary supplements that claim to help out. You may have heard about garlic, ginseng or red yeast rice, but just because they work [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
What began as a friendly debate over lunch about the benefits of low-carb eating vs. the risks to heart health these diets might bring grew into a study of whether high protein, low carb diets might actually clog up your arteries, the results of which appear in the online version of the Proceedings of the [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
While added sugar isn’t the only thing to blame for our ballooning waistlines and less healthy status, a recent estimate has Americans taking in a whopping 22 teaspoons of sugar each day, most of this from regular soda and sweets. So, how much sugar per day is recommended?
Imagine eating an extra full size candy bar [...]
We all know that stress is bad for us, and now new research finds that when you add chronic stress to the lives of female monkeys who eat the typical American diet they put on weight in a most dangerous place – Stress raises fat around the middle of the body, affectionately known as belly fat.
Fat in this [...]
