A Shocking Heart Attack and Weight Connection Discovered

A Shocking Heart Attack and Weight Connection Discovered

Those who are overweight and out of shape are at a higher risk of heart attack. Those who are fit and slim have a low heart attack risk. This is a well-documented fact. Or is it? A new study in the journal Scientific Reports puts this fact to the test, and the results...
These Plants Ease Hemorrhoids (Better Than Drugs)

These Plants Ease Hemorrhoids (Better Than Drugs)

Hemorrhoid treatments usually involve elastic band-type procedures or other surgeries. These are painful, and patients are understandably unenthusiastic. So it comes as good news that the journal Immuno has just published a study revealing the amazing effects of a...
Yummy Snack Cuts Cholesterol Better Than Statins

Yummy Snack Cuts Cholesterol Better Than Statins

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

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

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...