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Is Arsenic in Wine a Cause for Concern?
One of the oldest poisons known to humans is increasingly being found in high levels in wine. A new study of wines produced in the United States is the latest to show elevated levels of arsenic. This...
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2. Dietary Patterns
No single food, meal, or even day of eating makes or breaks our path to better nutrition and health. What matters most is what and how much you eat over time. In other words, your overall “dietary...
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2. Multiple Forms of Hypertension
The burden of high blood pressure in the United States is striking. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), 78,862 deaths in the United States in 2015 were due primarily to high blood...
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8. Treating Hypertension
Usually, a diagnosis of hypertension comes with a prescription for a blood-pressure-lowering, or antihypertensive, medication. Eventually, many people with hypertension require two or more drugs to...
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1. The Heart of the Matter
To fully appreciate the importance of following a heart-healthy lifestyle, it’s helpful to understand the impact that cardiovascular disease (a term that refers to conditions that affect the heart and...
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6. Treatment: Taking the Right Medications
Heart failure lasts a lifetime, but it can be treated for a lifetime by making sensible lifestyle decisions outlined in Chapter 5, with medical procedures described in Chapter 7, and with the...
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9. Diseases and Disorders of the Colon
Any food that remains after its journey through the small intestine ends up in the large intestine, also known as the colon. The six-foot-long colon is where water, some remaining nutrients, and...
View ArticleWhat Is Cholesterol Ratio?
Your total cholesterol and your LDL cholesterol have traditionally been considered the most important predictors of your risk for cardiovascular disease and are therefore most doctors’ primary focus...
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8. Medications to Treat Hypertension
If you’re diagnosed with hypertension, your doctor may recommend that you start on a blood-pressure-lowering, or antihypertensive, medication. The decision about whether to start medical therapy, and...
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2. Dietary Patterns
No single food, meal, or even day of eating makes or breaks our path to better nutrition and health. What matters most is what and how much you eat over time. In other words, your overall “dietary...
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2. Multiple Forms of Hypertension
The burden of high blood pressure in the United States is striking. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), 78,862 deaths in the United States in 2015 were due primarily to high blood...
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8. Treating Hypertension
Usually, a diagnosis of hypertension comes with a prescription for a blood-pressure-lowering, or antihypertensive, medication. Eventually, many people with hypertension require two or more drugs to...
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How Research Results Can Benefit Your Cardiovascular Health
It’s not surprising that researchers are constantly investigating all aspects of cardiovascular health, since cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in both women and men in the...
View ArticleNewsbites: Prenatal Vitamin D Does Not Prevent Childhood Asthma; Poor Diet...
Prenatal Vitamin D Does Not Prevent Childhood Asthma A study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vitamin D supplementation during the prenatal period alone did not...
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Revising the Use of Stents and Surgery for CAD
According to two large and significant studies, invasive procedures such as bypass surgery and stenting, commonly used to treat blocked arteries, are no better at reducing the risk for heart attack...
View ArticleNewbriefs: Shoulder Replacements; Pneumonia Shots; Flu & Acute Cardiovascular...
Most Shoulder Replacements Last More Than 10 Years The vast majority of shoulder replacement implants last more than 10 years, according to a large UK study published in the September issue of The...
View ArticleNewsbriefs: Heart Disease; Ischemic Stroke Risk; Digestive Issues; Glucose...
Eat Fatty Fish to Reduce Risk of Heart Disease Fatty fish intake of at least two servings a week (salmon, mackerel, sardines, anchovies, herring) can lower cardiovascular risk, according to a study...
View ArticleNewsbites: Coffee consumption; impact of smoking; benefits of dietary vitamin...
Habitual Coffee Consumption Associated with Health Benefits A study that followed nearly 400,000 middle-aged individuals in the U.K. for a median of over 10 years found that, compared to individuals...
View ArticleNewsbriefs: Low fitness; stroke recovery; hearing loss and dementia; extreme...
Low Fitness Alert Recent research underlines how sedentary behavior and abdominal fat impact our fitness levels as we age. The study, published in the December 2022 issue of BMJ Open, included 5,308...
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