Yawn* Mediterranean diet helps existing heart disease, too | Reuters
The Mediterranean diet is the healthiest diet on Earth. This is just more data showing what we already know. But check this out: Patients with diet’s that were the closest to the Mediterranean style of eating were at 31% lower risk of suffering another heart attack or experiencing chest...
The Bad Boys of the Meat Counter
It’s not meat, per se, that makes meat bad for you … it’s the crap they put in them to extend the shelf life. Beef … fine. Pork … fine. Lamb … fine. But you might want to think about cutting down on your Slim Jim fetish. “Processed meats...
Even The Air We Breathe
Does EVERYTHING cause heart disease, stroke and cancer? This article links heart disease and stroke to the pollution in the air. Okay, that’s not surprising. It’s just disheartening to feel like we’re walking about in a soup of nastiness that is contributing to our deaths. It’s like fouling your...
Really Expensive Pee
Does vitamin supplementation work for you, or do they just give you really expensive pee? If you know someone who is convinced by Supplementation Advertisements, you’ve got to forward this to them (see video below). Here is the story from Reuters. For more information: Click here to visit Will...
The “Heart” Affects The Heart
Two new studies show that problems with the mind can play a significant role in problems of the heart. Anxiety and depression can increase the incidence of angina, the chest pain that sends many people to the doctor, said Dr. Mark Sullivan, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at...
Salt By Stealth
Eat less salt, lower your risk of heart failure. We know this, but are often not coached very well on how to achieve it. For example, in this research report, researchers found that patients THINK they are lowering their salt by having a few less shakes on their food...
Tomatoes
The healthiest foods on the planet are the ones we “know by heart”, like … the tomato. In fact, the Mediterranean diet is rich in tomatoes, tomato products, and other carotenoids and has been associated with a lower incidence of a slew of nasty chronic diseases. Here’s a summary...
Traffic Jam Heart Jam?
Does a traffic jam lead to a heart attack? This research report indicates that getting stuck in traffic prompts a serious and immediate consequence — a much higher risk of suffering a heart attack. Here’s what they found:After a four-year analysis of nearly 1,500 heart attack cases, the authors...
Chips Ahoy
A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition gives us one more reason to argue against the consumption of snack foods such as potato chips. Why? It’s not about your fat grams or even your tendency to overeat when you nosh on salty foods from a sack....
Mediterranean Diet Puts Out the Flames
Inflammation. This is the newest marker for heart disease. This article summary indicates that the Mediterranean diet decreases the markers for inflammation more than the standard Western diet. Chronic inflammation has been linked to range of conditions linked to heart disease, osteoporosis, cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s, type-2 diabetes, and...
Trans fat substitutes to offer diet therapy
Trans fats will soon be replaced by edible oils that can be used for “diet therapy” to help halt the progress of illness or disease, a research analyst claims. Trans fats and their affect on human health is the biggest issue facing the edible oils and fats industry today,...
Salmon and Sunshine Saves The Heart
That may be a stretch … but not by much. In this study, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, analyzed medical records and blood samples from 454 men, aged 40 to 75, who had a nonfatal heart attack or fatal heart...