Yummy Snack Cuts Cholesterol Better Than Statins

Yummy Snack Cuts Cholesterol Better Than Statins

by | Mar 13, 2022

A crazy number of people are taking statins for high cholesterol these days, but a study in the Journal of Nutrition shows that this is completely unnecessary. It found that a snack packed with delicious cholesterol-busting foods can do an equally good job—without any...
How Acid Reflux Causes Fatal Heart Attack

How Acid Reflux Causes Fatal Heart Attack

by | Mar 4, 2022

Heart attacks are too often ‘misdiagnosed’ as acid reflux. After all, they both cause chest pain, and acid reflux is so common that doctors are likely to think of it first. But that’s a mistake, right? Wrong. A new study published in the Afro-Egyptian Journal of...
This Plant Heals Hemorrhoids

This Plant Heals Hemorrhoids

by | Feb 27, 2022

Hemorrhoids are often difficult to remove, and the existing treatments tend to involve knives, elastic bands, lasers, and other scary torture devices. That is why a study published in the new Phytomedicine Plus journal is promising, as it demonstrates that a simple...
Eating This Halves Cardiovascular Deaths

Eating This Halves Cardiovascular Deaths

by | Feb 25, 2022

We know that eating healthy is important. But just how important is it? Well, what if it cuts your risk of dying from stroke or heart attack by half? And that’s just from making a few small diet changes. In a study recently released in the European Journal of...