Pattern of drinking affects the relation of alcohol intake to coronary heart...
A fascinating study published in the BMJ shows that although the French drink more than the Northern Irish each week, as they drink daily, rather than more on less occasions, the French suffered from...
View ArticleA Diet Manifesto: Drop the Apple and Walk Away
Another year ends, and still the war drags on. In the final salvo of 2010, the combatants are lobbing fruit. Not literally, of course, though they might like to: The long war of the weight-loss diets...
View ArticleLongevinex exhibits L-shaped safety curve for first time in resveratrol biology
While protecting animal hearts from a mortal eventLas Vegas, Nevada (Dec. 30, 2010) It was Paracelsus, the Renaissance physician (1493-1541 A.D.) who first said "the dose makes the poison." So, you...
View ArticleIs Sugar Toxic?
...When I set out to interview public health authorities and researchers for this article, they would often initiate the interview with some variation of the comment surely youve spoken to Robert...
View ArticleShort Term Use of Painkillers Could Be Dangerous to Heart Patients
Even short-term use of some painkillers could be dangerous for people who've had a heart attack, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers...
View ArticleToday's teens will die younger of heart disease
High blood sugar, obesity, poor diet, smoking, little exercise make adolescents unhealthiest in US historyCHICAGO --- A new study that takes a complete snapshot of adolescent cardiovascular health in...
View ArticleFructose consumption increases risk factors for heart disease
Study suggests US Dietary Guideline for upper limit of sugar consumption is too highA recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism...
View ArticleNew York trans fat ban has cut consumption, study finds
Since the city banned trans fats in restaurant food in 2008, diners have consumed 2.4 fewer grams of trans fats per lunch, which should mean better health, researchers say. A New York regulation that...
View ArticlePanel recommends against ECG tests for heart disease
Testing electrical activity of the heart using an electrocardiogram is unlikely to help doctors figure out who is at risk of coronary heart disease, according to recommendations from a U.S....
View ArticleStudy: Belly Fat Officially the Worst
Having a normal overall BMI and a beer belly ("abdominal obesity") was found to be more dangerous than having a BMI in the obese range.BrewBooks/FlickrPROBLEM: While the relationship between obesity...
View ArticleAnti-inflammatories tied to cardiac risk
Heart attack survivors using certain painkillers are more likely to die or suffer another event People who have survived a heart attack seem to increase their risk of having another one, or of dying,...
View ArticleCancer overtakes heart disease among US Hispanics
Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the No. 1 killer among Hispanics in the U.S., and the rest of the country may be only a few years behind. The change is not exactly cause for alarm. Death rates...
View ArticleCommon heart treatment fails to help - Beta blockers may offer little against...
Beta blockers may offer little against heart attack, stroke Commonly prescribed drugs called beta blockers fail to protect against heart attacks and strokes even while helping to control heart rate and...
View ArticleBypass Beats Stents for Diabetic Heart Patients: Study
For a subset of heart patients who are both diabetic and have more than one clogged artery, bypass surgery appears to outperform the use of artery-widening stents, a major new trial finds. The study...
View ArticleChelation-therapy heart trial draws fire
Critics not persuaded that metal-snaring treatment works. With millions of Americans regularly using complementary medicines, researchers usually applaud efforts to test and debunk folk treatments such...
View ArticleGut bacteria may affect cardiovascular risk
Antioxidant-producing microbes may keep atherosclerotic plaques in place Though atherosclerosis is an artery problem, microscopic denizens of the intestines may play a surprising role in how the...
View ArticleToday's U.S. Soldiers Fitter Than Decades Ago: Report
However, study found those serving in Afghanistan, Iraq still had beginnings of heart diseaseHealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. service members who died in Iraq and...
View ArticleThe Mediterranean Diet: The New Gold Standard?
Comment Now Follow Comments Earlier today I summarized the important new PREDIMED study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing the cardiovascular benefits of the Mediterranean diet....
View ArticleResearchers Develop Injectable Gel to Repair Damaged Hearts
People who suffer heart attacks are at increased risk of having a second and potentially fatal occurrence because of the damage the heart attack does to cardiac muscle tissue. Now scientists at the...
View ArticleCholesterol limits lose their lustre
Revised guidelines for heart health are set to move away from target-based approach. Soon after Joseph Francis learned that his levels of bad LDL cholesterol sat at twice the norm, he discovered the...
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