Most people will agree that heart disease is a bad thing that should be avoided. And many people put that idea to work by doing things like eating what they consider “healthy” foods, or exercising. However, researchers at the University College London have found another important thing to do. The good news is that it takes only minutes a day. In fact, you might already do it!
Archive for May, 2010
A Novel Way to Prevent Heart Disease?
On May - 28 - 2010Comments Off on A Novel Way to Prevent Heart Disease?
High Blood Pressure? Drop the Sugar
On May - 26 - 20102 COMMENTS
It might seem logical that caffeine might raise your blood pressure. After all, it is a stimulant. New research shows that when it comes to soda caffeine may be the least of your problems!
News on Booze
On May - 24 - 2010Comments Off on News on Booze
There’s been a lot of coverage recently about how alcohol plays into unhealthy living and increases risks of some types of cancers. We’ve even covered those papers in this blog. The last week has seen far better news for lovers of wine and spirits, though. In order to pull yourself out of the alarming pool of alcohol, you can refer to links such as https://inpatientrehabilitation.co.uk/.
French researchers have taken a long hard look at the “French Paradox” and found that even boiling away all the confounding bits, it still holds for men and women. Women get some more good news about alcohol and Alzheimer’s. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s in the Can
On May - 21 - 2010Comments Off on It’s in the Can
A new report on how much BPA is in canned foods is now available from the National Workgroup for Safe Markets. As you may recall, Bisphenol A, or BPA for short, is a chemical used to make clear plastics and line metal pipes or cans. Research has shown that it can disrupt our hormones. As a result, it has been implicated in a variety of maladies from some cancers to heart disease to obesity.
Dishing on Meat
On May - 19 - 2010Comments Off on Dishing on Meat
For anybody who loves a good steak — or who just isn’t ready for Meatless Mondays let alone a vegetarian lifestyle — we have two great studies and just a little bit of bad news.
Conventional wisdom for some years has been that red meat is bad for you because it is loaded with saturated fat. The problem is that the actual studies on which that idea is based are at best conflicted: some show no correlation, while others show a clear pattern. This latest study tried to isolate just a few of the many factors that might be at work in this problem.