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Natural Remedies for Heart Health and Information for a Healthy Heart.

Alcohol’s Effect on Heart Disease Risk
Frequency of Light-to-Moderate Drinking Reduces Heart Disease Risk in Men. A 12-year study of 38,077 male health professionals found that men who drank alcohol three or more days per week had a reduced risk of heart attack compared with men who drank less frequently. Men who drank less than one drink a day had similar risk reduction to those who drank three...Read full article


High Homocysteine Levels and Heart Disease
High levels of homocysteine are strongly associated with heart disease. Cholesterol isn't the only blood component associated with the risk of heart disease and stroke. Researchers believe that when body cells dump too much homocysteine into the blood, artery linings become irritated, encouraging the formation of plaque—fatty deposits that cling to artery walls. One cause of this dumping is a low intake of...Read full article


Homocysteine Levels: What Lowers Homocysteine Levels Effectively and Safely?
In people who have dramatically elevated levels of homocysteine, different food supplements have been shown to bring down homocysteine levels and to reduce the risk of heart disease and strokes. A link between high levels of homocysteine, a sulfur-containing amino acid, and heart disease was first suggested in the 1960s, when it became clear that patients with inborn errors of homocysteine metabolism were prone to develop severe cardiovascular disease in their teens and twenties...Read full article


Heart Health and Healthy Eating Habits
The health consequences of eating one large meal a day compared with eating three meals a day has not been established. Now two recently published journal articles are among the first to report the effects of meal skipping on key health outcomes, based on a study involving a group of normal-weight, middle-aged adults...Read full article


Foods That Lower Cholesterol, Triglycerides and Prevent Cancer - Muscadine Grapes
Muscadine grapes are a natural food source for lowering both total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels, blood pressure, triglycerides and also protects against coronary heart disease, gastrointestinal diseases, and colon cancer. Research conducted by ARS horticulturist James B. Magee and Mississippi State nutritionist Betty J. Ector predicts that the muscadine will not only be an alternative crop for growers in the Southeast, but a new health food as well...Read full article


Natural & Healthy Anti-Aging Foods
They tested red wine because it has a high Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) value-higher than white wine-and has been associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Ten ounces of fresh spinach produced the biggest rise in the women's blood antioxidant scores—even greater than was caused by 1,250 milligrams of vitamin C. An 8-ounce serving of strawberries was less effective than vitamin C but a little more effective than 9.6 ounces of red wine...Read full article


Lowering Triglycerides: DHA Lowers Triglycerides
High blood levels of fats known as triglycerides may increase risk of heart disease. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service's Western Human Nutrition Research Center have seen triglyceride levels go down in volunteers who ate meals supplemented with a moderately high level of DHA, a polyunsaturated fatty acid. DHA is short for docosahexaenoic acid...Read full article


Cardiovascular Health/Heart Disease News
Findings on Women and Menstrual Cycling, Weight Gain Prevention Intervention in African American Girls, Impact of Breastfeeding on Adult HDL Cholesterol Levels, Bystanders using automated external defibrillators greatly increase survival, Physical activity helps maintain weight, Cardiovascular effects of hormone therapy linked to type of menopause and age...Read full article


Vitamin E and Heart Disease
This news release was issued in July 2005. I am posting it together with some of my own comments to possibly help clarify the Vitamin E issue.Women’s Health Study Finds Vitamin E does not Protect Women from Heart Attack, Stroke, or Cancer: Vitamin E supplements do not protect healthy women against heart attacks and stroke, according to new results from the Women’s Health Study, a long-term clinical trial of the effect of vitamin E and aspirin on both the prevention of cardiovascular disease and of cancer...Read full article


Heart Disease - Red Wine Reduces Risk
Red wine contains a rich source of a large number of antioxidants, namely the phenolic acids and polyphenols, which provide it with its protective oxidation reduction potential thereby reducing heart disease risk. Epidemiological (population) studies have shown that despite the high intake of saturated fatty acids within the diets of some populations, a reduced mortality rate from cardiovascular (heart) disease is attributed to the high consumption of red wine, independent of its alcohol content, the 'French Paradox'...Read full article


Heart Health: Saturated Fat Should Not Be Restricted.
By Kevin Flatt
Assistant Professor Jeff S. Volek and his colleague Cassandra E Forsythe at the University of Connecticut, reporting in the August 2005 issue of the journal Nutrition & Metabolism, dispel common myths and provide a convincing argument that the restriction of saturated fat is not warranted on a low-carbohydrate diet because of their work showing favorable responses in clinical risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease in low-carbohydrate diets that were rich in saturated fat...Read full article


Milk counteracts the health benefits of tea
A surprising study by German scientists has revealed that adding milk to tea stops its ability to dilate blood vessels and give antioxidant benefits, two protective factors for a healthy heart and cardiovascular system, Catharine Paddock reported for Medical News Today on 9 Jan 2007...Read full article


Taurine restores active and passive smokers blood vessels to normal
By Kevin Flatt
While the use of taurine, an amino acid in fish, will not help a person quit smoking, it can help reverse the damage done by continued smoking. Please note I do not advocate or support smoking. However, as many people find it very difficult to quit, any information that may help prevent damage caused by smoking should be presented. Also one has to think about passive smoking...Read full article


The Dangers of Elevated Homocysteine Levels
Population studies have shown that people with cardiovascular disease have higher blood concentrations of homocysteine. Most researchers believe that elevated blood plasma homocysteine levels may contribute to an increased risk of developing certain forms of heart disease, blood clots and stroke. A study conducted by researchers at Harvard University followed 15,000 people for five years and found that people with the highest homocysteine levels were more than three times as likely to have a heart attack as people with lower homocysteine...Read full article