In my last blog, I wrote about the issue of being overweight and the rise of diabetes. I have also blogged about exercise and not watching television, unless you are exercising while you are viewing. Now let’s talk about the kids.
The CDC recently published data from the NHANES survey of 1999 to 2006. As you [...]
Healthy People 2010 was launched in 2000. The aim of this project was to reduce the number of cardiovascular deaths by 20%. This is certainly a worthy project. The results were published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization in February.
I’m sure you can guess but we didn’t make it. 400,000 deaths in the U.S. [...]
We need to focus primarily on reducing consumption of refined carbohydrates - not saturated fat and cholesterol - to reduce coronary heart disease, according to Harvard's Frank Hu, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidmiology, has a...
By Associate Editor – Ann-Marie Waters
Do you know what blood group you are ?
When we think about looking after our heart health – eating healthily and exercising (and maybe taking medication) to lower our blood pressure and reduce our cholesterol levels, we usually don’t spare a thought about our blood group.
In fact, if we’re honest [...]
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It’s no secret that the mediterranean diet brings heart health benefits such as lower blood pressure and reduced cholesterol. So just what exactly IS the mediterranean diet ?
The Mediterranean diet refers to the traditional cuisine and healthy lifestyle (such as fresh air, and exercise), enjoyed for thousands of years by people from countries that border [...]Even light and intermittent smoking carries substantial health risk, according to a recent review of the evidence in Circulation. Daily smoking of one or more packs of cigarettes clearly increases the risk of developing heart disease, lung and other cancers,...
As I discussed in my last blog, a substance known as resveratrol has gained much notoriety in the last few years. It was originally brought to the attention of the general public during a 60 Minutes broadcast and subsequently has gone “viral” in the amount of attention that it gets, particularly on the Internet. The science [...]
In my last blog, I wrote about the benefit of chocolate in reducing mortality from vascular disease. Now recurrent news that light to moderate drinking reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular causes as opposed to total abstinence or heavy drinking has been published.
I say recurrent because this information has been seen before and is [...]High consumption of carbohydrates doubled the risk of developing coronary heart disease in women, according to research published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Carb intake didn't seem to affect heart disease risk in men, however. High-glycemic-index foods...
In my constant search for useful information to share on my blog, I have come across the most important piece yet. Chocolate is good for you. As published in the Eur Heart J 2010: DOI: 10.1093, Yes this was really published. If you consume 7.5 g per day of chocolate, you lower your risk of [...]