Recommended Sodium Intake & Hidden Dangers of Refined Salt
2/29/2012Reducing sodium in your diet is important, but knowing what type of sodium to reduce in your diet is more...
Read MoreSodium Intake Stratospheric
2/18/2012According to a study of over 7000 individuals just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just...
Read MoreBeans Aren’t So Bad in the Gas Department
12/29/2011Beans just might be the Rodney Dangerfield of the food world. To paraphrase the comedian, they just get no respect. ...
Read MoreNiacin and Cholesterol
11/28/2011A recent study proving that niacin doesn't help prevent heart attacks and strokes actually rips the facade off one of the...
Read MoreWhite Produce and Stroke Risk
11/19/2011A recent study has found that those who regularly eat greater quantities of white fruits and vegetables are 52 percent less likely...
Read MoreLow Carb Diet and Coronary Heart Disease
11/10/2011A study released in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that diets lower in carbohydrate and higher in protein...
Read MoreTick Parasite in Blood Transfusions
10/22/2011New research has found that there is a tick parasite that has been transmitted through blood transfusions appearing in the...
Read MoreSlightly High Blood Pressure and Stroke
10/15/2011New research has found that even just "a little elevation" in blood pressure -- what previously was considered safe --...
Read MoreLaughing as Effective as Statins
9/13/2011Whatever you do, laugh. One recent study has found that laughing literally opens the blood vessels. A second study found...
Read MoreIs Salt Addictive? An Appetite for Salt and Drugs
8/16/2011Scientists from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina and the University of Melbourne in Australia teamed up and...
Read MoreStrokes on the Rise in Pregnant Women
8/13/2011A new study led by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found that stroke rates for women...
Read MoreHeart Health and Running Speed
8/6/2011Researchers have found that the average mile-running times of people in their 40s or 50s correlates strongly to whether they have...
Read MoreThe Latest on Cooking Oil
6/30/2011A new study shows that people who use lots of olive oil, even in cooking, have a considerably lower stroke...
Read MoreHeart Disease in Children
6/23/2011We all fret about the obesity epidemic among children as well as adults today. But few of us worry about...
Read MoreForeign Accent Syndrome
5/17/2011Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) affects less than 100 people worldwide, but even so, it's disturbing enough to those who have...
Read MoreSpontaneous Foreign Accent
5/13/2011“FAS is a speech disorder that causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker is perceived to...
Read MoreStrokes on the Rise in the Young
5/12/2011A new study conducted at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found that the rate of strokes in children...
Read MoreCoffee’s Stroke Protection
4/30/2011Recent research that took place at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, found that women who have more than one...
Read MoreBabies and Obesity
4/23/2011A recent study that took place at Children's Hospital Boston found that formula-fed babies who are started on solid food...
Read MoreAspirin for Cancer? Maybe Not.
4/18/2011Think Aspirin is good for your heart? Maybe not so much. Think the only danger from Aspirin is stomach upset?...
Read MoreNew Aspirin Study
4/15/2011The latest research indicates that the use of as little as one aspirin tablet a month may provide a significant...
Read MoreThe PFC-Menopause Link
4/9/2011The latest study on perfluorocarbons (PFCs) has found that greater exposure to them may cause women to begin menopause years...
Read MoreSex, Exercise, and Heart Attacks
4/5/2011A recent study out of Tufts University just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the...
Read MoreEgg Improvements
3/15/2011The USDA regularly has nutrition checks performed on common foods, and the egg has made changes for the better. Since...
Read MoreFats and Oils Made Simple
3/7/2011The world's establishment health experts still don't get it when it comes to fats and oils. They oversimplify and misrepresent...
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