by Christian Goodman | Apr 14, 2012 |
Recently, study findings from the Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center showed that pre-hypertensive participants who ate raisins three times a day were able to reduce their blood pressure during the 12-week study. Compared to participants eating...
by ShellyManning | Apr 10, 2012 |
Coriander, also known as cilantro, is a garden herb used abundantly in Spanish and Tex-Mex cuisine. It also is a powerful herb to halt the damaging inflammation process that causes arthritis. Researchers at AIIMS found that coriander stops the release of chemicals...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 9, 2012 |
Researchers at Columbia University in New York found that people who consumed more soy protein than non-soy eating counterparts had much lower blood pressure. The data suggest that the isoflavones in soy work to boost the body’s natural production of nitric oxide,...
by Jodi Knapp | Apr 8, 2012 |
Insulin resistance has been traced back to a key protein, cites breakthrough research from scientists at the Gladstone Institute. Investigating researchers were able to identify a key protein that is very active in the regulation of glucose in the body. Using mice...
by Julissa Clay | Apr 7, 2012 |
Is there a single reason why these levels creep into the danger zone with age? Most doctors will tell you no… that there are simply too many other variables that accompany aging that will affect blood pressure, cholesterol, sexual performance, metabolism, etc. But are...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 6, 2012 |
High fat diets have been targeted as unhealthy and a serious cause of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes for over 30 years now. Lately however, there has been great dispute over if this is actually true or not. A new study from the...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 5, 2012 |
Men with the inflammatory skin condition eczema are significantly more likely to suffer from ED than men with healthy skin, according to a new study conducted by researchers in Taiwan. In this study, scientists investigated the medical records of more than 23,000 men...
by Julissa Clay | Apr 4, 2012 |
Those struggling with Irritable Bowel Syndrome should include more natural sources of probiotics, such as yogurt and kefir, into their daily a diet, reports a new review study out of University College Cork. This review paper looked at 42 clinical studies that...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 3, 2012 |
One minute he was walking ahead of me on a 10 miles hike, cursing me (jokingly) for being lazy and dragging behind, the next, he was lying down holding his chest in agony. That’s how I experienced my favorite uncle’s heart attack when I was 10 years old. And that’s...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 2, 2012 |
Some of the 80 million adults in the United States with high blood pressure may want to put down their drugs and pick up a rubber ball. According to a study from the Journal of Hypertension, 10-minutes per day, 3-days per week of hand grip training is enough to...