How Arthritis Affects Your Heart Health

How Arthritis Affects Your Heart Health

by | Dec 28, 2013 | 2 comments

Most of us wouldn’t put an equal sign between arthritis and cardiovascular health. After all, one bothers the joints where the other is all about the arteries. No connection right? Or is it possible that having arthritis leads almost unavoidably to heart attack?...
This Common Supplement Increases Stroke Risk 16%

This Common Supplement Increases Stroke Risk 16%

by | Dec 27, 2013 | 2 comments

Here on Blue Heron Health News, we’ve written hundreds of articles on the benefits of various supplements for myriad health conditions like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and arthritis. But a recent study from Britain’s University of Dundee and University...
Type 2 Diabetes – Is It All In Your Head?

Type 2 Diabetes – Is It All In Your Head?

by | Dec 26, 2013 | 3 comments

Alarming predictions from the Centers for Disease Control assert that by the year 2050, roughly half the US population will have developed type 2 diabetes. The epidemic that seems to be increasing out of control has scientists scrambling to look at all the factors...
Be Realistic About High Blood Pressure

Be Realistic About High Blood Pressure

by | Dec 25, 2013 | 0 comments

For many people who were formerly without health insurance now being covered, a new trend has emerged that has health experts worrying that better healthcare coverage isn’t going to translate into better health. It seems counterintuitive to some that adding preventive...
Human Connection and Why We Get Sick

Human Connection and Why We Get Sick

by | Dec 24, 2013 | 4 comments

It’s Christmas Day today. A time of love and connection, compassion and giving. It’s the day (or days, before, depending on tradition) families all over the world sit down together, eat good food and exchange gifts as a sign of their love and affection for each other....