In the recent decade a push for dietary health has seen a big increase in importance as the obesity rate has increased tremendously over the entire world. Whether it is because our fast pace world promotes fast eating, our society has expanded its waste line tremendously. Therefore a big heath kick was started and promoted [...]

There are foods that you need to avoid that are high in cholesterol. Go to your local supermarket you can find all kinds of yummy looking snacks such as chips and greasy or heavy bucket of ice cream. Eating of them will certainly hard to lower cholesterol naturally and add a few pounds.
Other types [...]

It is regrettably true that as yet we do not know everything about vitamins, but we do know quite a lot.
The trouble is that knowing “quite a lot” is often a dangerous place. Why? Well imagine if you were about to undergo a routine surgery. You are very confident that the outcome will be a [...]

This article is intended to be an introduction to dietary health supplements and is not in any way intended to be, nor should it be taken as, medical advice. If you have a health issue, you should always seek the advice of a health care practitioner.

To ensure that we start off correctly, I think that [...]

First of all it should be stated that Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases with the general characteristic of high blood sugar levels. You should as well know that diabetes happens when the pancreas cannot produce sufficient insulin or in the case that the insulin that is produced in the pancreas cannot work [...]

One of the most important aspects of anybody’s general health is your cardiovascular health. You need to be sure your cardiovascular system is functioning properly and that you are taking all of the needed precautions to keep your heart in good working order.
You need to make sure that you are visiting your doctor when it [...]

Heart rate monitors used to be exclusively operated by physicians and nurses alone but that was soon rectified with today’s multi-tasking generation. Every person seemed to want to know about everything that was related to them and that of course included monitoring their own heartbeats.
What is a Heart Monitor
Also known as a cardiac monitor, a [...]

An age-related decline in heart function is a risk factor for heart disease in the elderly. While a number of factors contribute to a progressive age-related decline in heart function, alterations in the types of fuels the heart uses to produce energy also play important roles. Jason Dyck and his research team [...]

(NewsTarget) The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association have released new guidelines for physical activity that recommend that healthy adults ages 18 to 65 exercise a minimum of five days per week in order to promote health and prevent disease. The new guidelines were published in Med Sci Sports Exerc 2007; [...]

Copper can fix enlarged hearts, new research involving mice suggests. The study comes from the University of Louisville in Kentucky, and found that adding copper to the diet reversed hypertrophy (enlargement of the heart).
• USDA surveys have shown that most Americans already get more than the recommended daily intake of 0.9 milligrams of copper per [...]

By Michelle Mahoney, DTR
College students may have to give up happy hour for a healthy heart.
A recent article on www.time.com sites research from the American Heart Association (AHA) that drinking excessive amounts of alcohol in your college years can double levels of C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is an inflammation that can lead to a [...]

It sounds a little — pardon the pun — nutty, but there’s growing recognition that eating nuts as part of a healthy diet is good for your heart. Nuts, which contain unsaturated fatty acids and other nutrients, are a great snack food, too. They’re cheap and easy to store.
The type of nut [...]