Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Unfortunately, the message conveyed to the world wasn't really focused on improving heart health but on taking the right drugs. It was by mere coincidence that just one week before President Clinton was admitted to the hospital, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet sounded a wakeup call with a different meaning. A major new study on heart disease risk published by The Lancet had this message for those concerned about their hearts: "Wake up and get heart healthy. You don't need medicine for that. |
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See book keywords and concepts | | Example: Benecol, a soft-spread substitute for margarine or butter, is advertised as promoting heart health by lowering cholesterol. It does this—but it also contains "less than" 0.5 g of trans fats per tablespoon.
This means that if you used one tablespoon four times a day, which is the amount recommended to lower cholesterol, you could consume nearly 14 g of trans fats in a week, just from Benecol spread alone.
Many companies are replacing trans fats with saturated fats, fust because something has zero trans fats doesn't mean people can eat as much as they want. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
See book keywords and concepts |  Paula was under a doctor's care to monitor her own heart health. She had previously suffered two small strokes, although she had fully recovered. Exacerbating her family medical history was Paula's use of tobacco and her environmental exposure to pesticides and fertilizers because she worked intermittently in commercial farming in rural Australia. She was on a regular regime of pharmaceuticals, including medications to thin her blood and help control high blood pressure and an elevated cholesterol level.
In 2002, Paula failed a stress test. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts | | Add chocolate to your healthy diet, and your heart health will improve. At least, this is what they are now trying to make you believe.
Apparently, there is a new study that suggests eating chocolate can improve your blood vessel functions. This clearly shows how much the food industry, similar to the pharmaceutical industry, wants you to buy more of their products, with utter disregard to your health. | | Antibiotics and other synthetic drugs
It is becoming increasingly evident that medical drugs with a suppressive effect on any symptoms of disease diminish heart health. Every time your body tries to clear out accumulated toxins and waste through a cold, a viral infection, or any other disease process that includes inflammation, your heart is burdened with the difficult task of pushing the harmful waste material released from the tissues back where it came from. With each new attempt to subdue pain, infection, cholesterol, etc., less and less of this waste finds its way out of the body. | | If you ask a man on the street whether he is satisfied with his job and generally happy with his life, his answer will give you a fairly accurate prognosis about his heart health. It would be too simplistic to assume that heart disease is only caused by stress, cigarette smoking, overeating, alcohol abuse, etc. These risk factors are not the ultimate causes of a dysfunctional heart, but rather the effects or symptoms of plain dissatisfaction in life. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |  Since flax and flax oil as a source of omega-3 oil is often promoted for heart health, it poses a conflict for health-conscious males, particularly vegetarian males.
A confusing part of this debate is that most of the arguments center around markers of prostate cancer such as PSA count, or even tumor size, but not survival, which in the end is the final arbiter. Furthermore, studies do confirm that low levels of fat, regardless of type, help to prevent prostate cancer. [Anticancer Research 16: 815-20, 1996]
Enter Charles E. Myers Jr., MD, who at age 55 faced prostate cancer himself. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  Eggs are a good source of choline, which is important for brain function, gene regulation, and heart health. Eggs also contain lutein and zeaxanthin, two phytochemicals that may reduce the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration.
Home Remedies
Eggs have been used in a variety of ways for medicinal purposes. One popular remedy for colic consists of beating four to five egg whites and putting them on a piece of leather, sprinkling the mixture with pepper and ginger, and then placing the mixture over the child's belly button. | | Oranges are a great source of potassium, a mineral that's important for heart health, and an excellent source of vitamin C, providing one hundred thirty percent of the recommended daily value (RDA) per orange. Oranges are also a good source of the B vitamin folate, which helps protect against heart disease and birth disorders. Phytochemically speaking, oranges are a rich source of flavanones, a specialty group of the flavonoid family of antioxidants which offer cell protection against a host of diseases. A four-ounce glass of orange juice is equivalent to one fruit serving. | | The omega-3 fats found in salmon have also shown benefit in improving heart health and fighting depression, asthma, and cancer.
Tips on Using Salmon
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Salmon comes fresh, frozen, canned, and smoked.
• Fresh wild-caught are only available for a few months out of the year. Farm-raised are available year-round.
• Fresh salmon should either be eaten or frozen within two days after purchase.
PREPARATION AND SERVING SUGGESTIONS:
• The skin should be removed, along with the bones.
• Be careful not to overcook salmon! | | Corn contains the phytochemicals beta-cryptoxanthin, lutein, saponins, alkaloids, sitosterol, stigmasterol, malic acid, palmitic acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid, and maizenic acid, which have heart health and cancer-fighting properties.
Home Remedies
The entire corn plant has long been used in Native American cultures for medicinal purposes. Cornsilk is a well-studied tea that has diuretic properties, and, accordingly, has been used for difficult, painful, or frequent urination. Cornmeal boiled with milk has been applied to burns, inflammations, and swellings. | | DIABETES AND HEART HEALTH: Several studies performed on diabetic rats found that feeding them chard controlled blood glucose and either reversed, stabilized, or prevented the negative effects of diabetes such as nerve damage and heart disease.
Tips on Using Chard
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Select chard leaves that are a bright green color with a crisp stalk. Avoid buying chard that is browning or yellowing or has small holes.
• Unwashed chard can be kept in plastic in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator for up to three days. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | These results are consistent with earlier studies showing that vitamin E does not improve heart health in men.
Conclusion: There is no evidence that vitamin E supplements protect against cardiovascular disease.
Editor's note: Additional studies are under way to confirm whether vitamin E supplements help prevent other ailments, such as Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration and certain types of cancer, such as prostate malignancies. BEST ASPIRIN THERAPY
•For men. Study after study has shown that men who take aspirin regularly have a lower risk of heart attack. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Stop smoking: If heart health and the circulatory system are compromised, give up smoking. If the prospect of giving up seems difficult, consider using complementary therapies, such as homeopathy, acupuncture, herbalism, or hypnotherapy, to support your efforts.
Manage your stress: If you know high stress levels are contributing to high blood pressure readings, make a point of taking some time each day to relax. This does not mean slumping in front of the TV, but instead use some tried and tested formal relaxation techniques. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Maybe they've got a little hole in their slice of heart health, and a few little holes in their slice of brain health, and a medium-sized hole in their slice of chromosome health. Nothing major lets you see through the stack.
As aging takes effect, however, those holes can get a little bigger, or the cheese can get a little thinner. When big holes from one slice perfectly align with big holes from another slice, then, in effect, you've got big problems. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Beets are also loaded with potassium, a vitally important mineral for heart health. In the "old days," our caveman ancestors consumed a diet high in potassium and low in sodium. A high potassium-to-sodium ratio is ideal for human health, but these days the ratio is reversed. The potassium in beets can help correct this imbalance. Potassium is found in fruits (like bananas) and vegetables; beets, weighing in at a whopping 528 mg of potassium for two beets, are an excellent source. They've also got magnesium and a tiny bit of vitamin C. | | Green tea: Rich in antioxidants, promotes heart health, aids digestion, and regulates blood sugar and body temperature. It raises the metabolic rate and speeds up fat oxidation, thus helping people lose weight. Also has a powerful effect against rheumatoid arthritis and tumors.
9. Whole grains/brown rice: They offer a wide array of health benefits. Not only do whole grains contain fiber and traditional nutrients such as B vitamins, vitamin E, magnesium, and iron, but they also contain numerous disease-fighting phytochemicals and antioxidants not found in fruits.
10. | | As an extra bonus, cocoa also contains magnesium, one of the most important minerals for heart health.
Flavanols in cocoa also do something else that's very important. They modulate a compound in the body called nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is critical for healthy blood flow and healthy blood pressure and is a very important compound in the area of cardiovascular health. In one Italian study, dark chocolate was shown to lower blood pressure, and the reason may well be that flavanol-rich cocoa actually supports the body's ability to synthesize nitric oxide. | | Fish: Good source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids for brain and heart health.
2. Eggs: Contains the highest-quality protein of any food. Good source of choline needed for healthy brain and liver function. Avoid scrambled eggs. Scrambling oxidizes the cholesterol, and oxidized cholesterol increases the risk of atherosclerosis.
3. Spinach: Excellent source of lutein, which helps prevent age-related macular degeneration.
4. Nuts, preferably raw: Good sources of protein, essential fatty acids, fiber, and magnesium. Eating nuts lowers serum cholesterol and may reduce the risk of heart disease. |
J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  Green tea has been promoted for its beneficial effects on heart health as well as for other reasons. In the Ohsaki National Health Insurance Cohort Study, an eleven-year study of 40,530 Japanese adults ages forty to seventy-nine, green-tea consumption was associated with a reduced risk of death and death related to cardiovascular disease.56 I am not ready to accept the results of this study, because people who drink green tea may be more health conscious in general, and this may have led to biased results. A double-blind randomized trial of green tea is needed. | | For example, there are fats in foods like olive oil and fish that actually promote heart health. As an example, the generic low-fat diet of the WHI reduced LDL cholesterol by only ten points, whereas a diet high in fruits and vegetables, soy, and nuts, and low in animal fat dropped cholesterol by 30%, a figure that equaled the effects of a statin (33%).
A low-carb diet does not prevent heart disease. Look at the doctor who developed it: He died of a heart attack. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |  As an adjunct to his focus of improving men's energy, health, and sexuality by returning testosterone levels to their more youthful levels, he discovered a remarkable but not widely recognized relationship between testosterone and heart health and recovery. In his book The Testosterone Syndrome, Shippen cites that an increasing majority of medical studies report a relationship between high testosterone and low cardiovascular disease in men, and that men are healthier and live longer when their testosterone levels are normal. | | Studies with animals have shown possible benefits for maintaining normal healthy states for kidney function, heart health, general cell growth, blood sugar levels, and the immune system.
Raw juice from the aloe vera leaf has been found to contain over 200 nutrients and biologically active ingredients, among them vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, enzymes, and eighteen amino acids. It is a good alkalizer.
When purchasing aloe vera juice, one should be aware of the different qualities sold in stores. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |  In the public's mind, the words "dietary fat" have become synonymous with obesity and heart disease, whereas the words "low-fat" and "fat-free" have been synonymous with heart health.
We can only wonder how in the world such crazy ideas ever found their way into the "public's mind." Surely not from anyone associated with the Harvard School of Public Health, I would hope. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  And is it a coincidence that it not only works brilliantly for bloat and water retention but is also one of the most important nutrients for heart health, healthy blood pressure, and the prevention of arrhythmias?
Taurine is what's called a nonprotein amino acid. The body makes it from cysteine or methionine (other amino acids), with the help of vitamin B6. The highest concentration is found in the brain, retina, and heart muscle. Taurine represents about 50 percent of the free amino acids in heart cells and the second most abundant amino acid in the muscles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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"Study: Vitamins No Magic Bullet for Heart Health" http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=3474385&page=1
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Reuters
"Common vitamins no help for women's hearts: study" http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1336012020070814
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta Blog on CNN. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Coenzyme Q10 is also present at 25mg per serving, and LivingFuel Rx Super Greens even delivers grape seed, skin and stem extracts containing resveratrol (which are outstanding for heart health).
The extra enzymes and probiotics enhance the digestibility and bioavailability of the nutrients found in LivingFuel Rx Super Greens.
LivingFuel Rx Super Greens is suitable for vegetarians or people with gluten sensitivities. It contains no animal products and no wheat. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  He also added 1,000 mg daily of L-carnitine to reduce blood glucose levels further and for heart health. He admitted that following the antiglycation eating program was "a bit difficult, especially since I really love fried foods," but that his wife was "holding me to it. Poached fish, soups, and oatmeal are now a big part of my diet."
Nine months after he was first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, Frank weighs in at 205 pounds, his Hb A is 6.2 percent, and his fasting glucose level averages 115 mg/dL. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Foods for heart health. Heart disease is the other major concern in the postmenopausal years. The prevention of heart disease is largely determined by diet and lifestyle. Women who make the
Dietary Recommendations
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Reduce saturated fats (cheese, butter, beef, pork).
Avoid trans fats (deep fried foods, margarine, partially hydrogenated oils).
Reduce refined grains and flours, sugar, and salt.
Use only a modest amount of low-fat dairy products. | | Anemia, the gastrointestinal and genital tracts, bone and heart health, and mental function are all affected by folic acid deficiencies. For this reason, folate is an important nutrient to supplement for women taking the pill. Oral contraception users have also been reported to have reduced levels of vitamin B12.9 This may be related to malabsorption, increased renal excretion, and enhanced tissue acidity. |
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