by Jodi Knapp | Jul 26, 2012 |
Eating antioxidant foods or taking antioxidant supplements all help to eliminate heart disease and diabetes. But recently scientists discovered a characteristic specific berries hold to turn on your body’s capability to boost its own antioxidant- making abilities. The...
by Scott Davis | Jul 12, 2012 |
Researchers have discovered new, previously little known side effects of Statin drugs. The scary part is that these side effects could actually prevent you from lowering your cholesterol level. The stronger the Statin drug, the worse your side effects could be: This...
by Scott Davis | Jul 7, 2012 |
For the last 30-40 years, we’ve been hearing the same message everywhere we go: Cut down salt, cut down salt, cut down salt … and again, cut down salt. The problem is, there is not a single, reliable scientific study to back this song up. On the contrary; there are...
by Scott Davis | Jun 30, 2012 |
You’re concerned about high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, cancer risks, being overweight and other health problems. And you should be. After all, these are many of the main death risk factors. Most of us don’t want to die so we take measures to...
by Scott Davis | Jun 27, 2012 |
Another urgent reason to get cholesterol under control has been gaining attention in Alzheimer’s circles lately as scientists are finally discovering what the connection is. Scientists and researchers have long suspected that people with high cholesterol levels are at...
by Scott Davis | Jun 11, 2012 |
A recent study making use of far-reaching and intensive data on genetics casts doubt on the belief that “good” cholesterol, or HDL, has any impact on heart health. Findings published in The Lancet recently revealed that raising the HDL or good cholesterol in the blood...