Stories tagged "heartdisease"

September is National Cholesterol Education Month. Everyone has cholesterol in their blood, but have are your figures too high?

Ginger tea preparations are among the most popular ways to take ginger.

There have been numerous clinical studies that show that alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) intake reduces the incidence of coronary heart disease.

Depression and heart disease are the two leading disorders with the strongest contributions to the global burden of disease. Depression and heart disease are also intertwined. In recent years, much attention has been given to depression following heart at

A heart - healthy diet we will love, foods you'd eat even if they weren't good for you.

A new study looked at US adults 20 years and older and found that 23.5%, approximately 16.3 million adults who had a “normal” weight were unhealthy.

Great news for all you garlic lovers out there! Recent research at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, has shown a direct link between munching on the smelly stuff and reducing high blood pressure. Untreated high blood pressure is a very real killer

Is a person’s weight really a reliable indicator of overall health? Increasingly, medical research is showing that it isn’t. There is growing evidence that our obsession about weight as a primary measure of health may be misguided.

Over the years, researchers, consumers, and the general public have had a love-hate relationship with caffeine’s health hazards and benefits.

Spinach is an Asian herb of the goosefoot family cultivated for its edible leaves. In Malaysia people called it bayam. Spinach is native to central and southwestern Asia. It is a flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae.