Watermelon Keeps Cholesterol in Check

by Scott Davis | Dec 11, 2011 | 22 comments

The summertime favorite fruit may be out of season, but that hasn’t stopped a research team from the University of Kentucky from releasing promising results that have linked watermelon juice with healthy cholesterol levels. The USDA-funded research investigated the...

High Cholesterol Sufferers Should “Go Nuts” For Nuts

by Scott Davis | Nov 30, 2011 | 12 comments

Adults with a condition known as metabolic syndrome –characterized among others by low HDL cholesterol, high LDL cholesterol and obesity—can keep heart disease at bay simply by eating more nuts, a University of Barcelona team found. In this research study, a group of...

Caveman Diet lowers Everyone’s Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Nov 27, 2011 | 19 comments

Despite the popularity of the DASH diet, scientists remain on the hunt for new diets that turn down the dial on blood pressure. According to new research out of the University of California San Francisco, the search for a tasty and effective blood-pressure lowering...

Probiotics Help Drop Cholesterol Levels

by Scott Davis | Nov 7, 2011 | 1 comment

Probiotics –foods that contain high levels of “good” bacteria—may reduce blood cholesterol levels, according to a study published in the medical journal “PLos One.” In this study, Duke University scientists investigated the gut flora of 50 volunteers with...

Lowering Cholesterol May Not Be The Answer

by Scott Davis | Nov 4, 2011 | 2 comments

Doctors and patients should pay more attention to so-called “good” HDL cholesterol and less to total cholesterol figures, a large-scale study published in this week’s American College of Cardiology found. In this study of more than 30,000 adults, it was discovered...

A Daily Beer May Help Lower Cholesterol

by Scott Davis | Oct 6, 2011 | 1 comment

Although binge drinking and full-blown alcoholism are tied to high cholesterol and heart attack risk, a new study published in the medical journal “Atherosclerosis” found this week that a glass or two per night may actually drop cholesterol levels. In a study of mice,...