This Salty Soup Lowers Blood Pressure

This Salty Soup Lowers Blood Pressure

It might seem counterintuitive to recommend foods high in salt to aid in the reduction of high blood pressure. And it’s true that many high-sodium foods are terrible for you. However, it’s not because of the salt, necessarily, that this is so. It’s all because of the...
Acid Reflux? 6 Things Never to Eat

Acid Reflux? 6 Things Never to Eat

Now that we’re past the worst of the holiday food-binge season, it’s time to re-focus and get serious about solving some of our food-related issues. Many people find that during the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, they abandon many (or all) of the good...
How Heavy Snoring Causes Arterial Damage

How Heavy Snoring Causes Arterial Damage

The ravages of diabetes on blood vessels is well-documented. But now, researchers are finding that people who suffer from sleep apnea and chronic snoring are showing an almost identical severity of damage to arteries as what you’d find in people with diabetes....
This Extract Helps Diabetics Manage Blood Sugar

This Extract Helps Diabetics Manage Blood Sugar

Researchers in Italy recently found promising effects on blood sugar of an extract that is found in an unlikely place. This study showed that the extract might make it possible to manage blood sugar without having to sacrifice carb consumption as strictly. The obvious...
Three Ways Being Overweight Starves You

Three Ways Being Overweight Starves You

No, you didn’t read that wrong. It actually says that being overweight starves you. And it’s true. There are three key ways that being overweight is starving you, driving you to an early death. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In today’s feature article we’re going...
How High Blood Pressure Damages Your Brain

How High Blood Pressure Damages Your Brain

The ravages of uncontrolled hypertension, or high blood pressure that isn’t well-managed, extend far beyond a little arterial damage. In a study published in the Lancet-Neurology, researchers looked at MRI scans of men and women as young as 39 who had high blood...
Type 2 Diabetes Caused By This Sweetener

Type 2 Diabetes Caused By This Sweetener

A study out of Oxford University casts an unfavorable light on a common sweetener used in processed food. More troubling, though, is how hard it is to avoid the additive in the first place. In countries where there is a high consumption of high fructose corn syrup...
What’s the Future of Your Health?

What’s the Future of Your Health?

Some researchers claim that Westerners health is declining so rapidly that upcoming generations will be the first ones ever to have a shorter life-expectancy than the one before it. Recent studies, however, indicate that we’re living longer – but sicker –...