How to Estimate Your Personal Heart Attack Risk

by Scott Davis | Jan 21, 2014 | 3 comments

Back in 1948, the group called National Heart Institute began a study to assess the risk factors that lead to heart attack and stroke. They followed 5,000 participants throughout their lives. Today, we look at the list of top risk factors that the study was able to...

Heart Attack Risk Drastically Cut Using This After Meal Approach

by Scott Davis | Jan 10, 2014 | 3 comments

Having a high-fat meal once in a while…even fairly frequently…isn’t as bad as you might think, as long as you follow the meal up with this one simple approach. Researchers in Japan found that people who are sedentary after having a high-fat meal will have triglyceride...

How Tackling Diabetes Prevents Stroke and Heart Attack

by Jodi Knapp | Jan 5, 2014 | 0 comments

Roughly 23 million people in United States alone suffer from type 2 diabetes. It’s the fastest-growing disease in almost all Western countries. Leading complications following type 2 diabetes are heart attacks, strokes and amputations. According to new study findings...

How Arthritis Affects Your Heart Health

by ShellyManning | 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%

by Scott Davis | 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...

Riskiest Times for Heart Attack

by Scott Davis | Dec 22, 2013 | 0 comments

Heart attack is the number 1 cause of death in almost every country of the Western world. We all know someone who has suffered one, and in the back of our heads we all worry about someday having a heart attack ourselves. You’re probably aware of many things you can do...