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5 Best Foods For Reducing Cholesterol Levels

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Fight the war on high cholesterol with these natural foods. Knock down your Low-Density Lipoproteins (LDL) cholesterol levels naturally. These powerful foods in conjunction with a healthy diet and consistent exercising can easily help you win the war against bad LDL high cholesterol. High-Density Lipoproteins (HDL) cholesterol at high levels is actually good for you as it aids in bringing down the LDL cholesterol levels.

*Oats

Highly advertised on television as a powerful cholesterol-lowering agent, the oat is probably the most well-known of these foods. The oats have a deep history in Scotland, where it is the main staple of the Scottish diet. When the Scots settled in Vermont, they brought oats with them. Interestingly enough this background has made Vermont the state that eats the most oats.

The key cholesterol-kicking ingredient in oats is its soluble fiber. The soluble fiber keeps much of the bad cholesterol, LDL from being absorbed into your intestines. Ultimately, this means that the soluble fiber keeps the cholesterol out of the blood stream and out of your arteries.  Read more...

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Advices to Better Health and Decrease Triglycerides

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Meaning of triglycerides

Triglycerides are a form of fat that the body creates from excessive calories, alcohol and sugar. Your body naturally utilizes triglycerides for energy.

For optimum health, a few triglycerides are okay. Nonetheless, raised triglycerides may be an indicator of metabolic syndrome and may heighten your risk of heart disease.

A combination of high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, too much fat around the waist, low HDL the good cholesterol, and high triglycerides, metabolic syndrome raises your likelihood for cardiac disease, diabetes, and stroke.

What produces high triglycerides?

Elevated triglycerides are for the most part caused by certain conditions, for example:

* Overweight.

* Poorly managed type 2 diabetes.

* An under active thyroid (hypothyroidism).

* Kidney disease.

* Overeating and not enough physical activity.

* Increased consumption of alcohol.

Several medicines that cause triglycerides to rise are:

* Beta-blockers.

* Birth control.

* Steroids.

* Tamoxifen.

* Estrogen.

* Diuretics.

In a number of cases, elevated triglycerides are hereditary.

Counteracting triglyceride levels:

It does not have to be difficult to decrease your level of triglycerides. Just pursue these five simple steps for improved health to bring down your triglycerides.  Read more...

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Risk Factors For Heart Disease You Should Be Aware Of

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

There are a number of risk factors for heart disease, but there are several in particular that everyone ought to pay attention to. These are the most common risk factors, accounting for the great majority of heart disease.

Diabetes: Diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease. For some time now, the medical community has known that high blood sugar can have a detrimental effect on the heart. In fact, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found evidence that lowering your blood sugar significantly can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke by nearly half! Unfortunately, a lot of people who have diabetes don’t even realize it until it’s too late and the damage has already been done.

Smoking: Smokers are also at a much higher risk of heart attack than non-smokers. The longer a person smokes, the more that risk increases. People who smoke just one pack of cigarettes per day have more than two times the risk of heart attack than non-smokers.

Physical Inactivity: Regular physical activity, especially aerobic exercise, can help prevent cardiovascular disease, heart disease, and stroke. Lack of physical activity is strongly linked to cardiovascular mortality. Physical activity can also control blood cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure, and it can help prevent and correct obesity.  Read more...

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The Top 9 Benefits Of Fish Oil Validated By Studies

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

A huge amount of studies indicate that, not only are fish oil benefits numerous, some of them are really quite amazing! It seems sometimes like new studies are being published all the time, as scientists and doctors learn more and more about how and why it is so good for health. The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil are “good fats” that are vital to health. They are crucial for our health but the body can’t produce them – you must get them through diet. Here are some proven fish oil health benefits that should persuade you to eat more oily, wild fish and/or start taking a high quality fish oil supplement if you’re not already!

Promotes Cardiovascular Wellness & Prevents Heart Attack and Stroke

Fish oil continues to grow in scientific reputation as a key component to heart health. According to statements from the American Heart Association, fish oil is effective in minimizing the occurrence of heart disease and aids in reducing risk factors such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Research studies of heart attack survivors have found that daily fish oil capsules drastically reduce the risk of death, subsequent heart attacks and stroke. Omega-3s also decrease blood triglycerides, help correct irregular heart rhythms, and can help avoid and treat atherosclerosis by preventing the formation of plaque and blood clots, which tend to clog arteries.  Read more...

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Bad Cholesterol – Facts

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

People have such bad opinion about Cholesterol that it becomes very surprising that the human body actually requires it. Two different types of cholesterol are available in the human body which is known as HDL cholesterol or good cholesterol and LDL cholesterol or bad cholesterol. The human body requires cholesterol to generate the necessary vitamin D, bile salts and hormones.

On the contrary bad cholesterol causes a lot of health problems. LDL Cholesterol dumps the cholesterol in the artery walls which in turn creates plaque. The arteries get blocked and narrowed by plaque and as a result of this the blood flow gets blocked which is very bad for their heart.

The cause of cholesterol

As we go about searching for remedies to control bad cholesterol, we are perplexed by the various terms that we have to face; one such is the dietary cholesterol. A common knowledge is dietary cholesterol are bad. But on the contrary dietary cholesterol has the ability to control the blood cholesterol and does not allow it to arise. The dreadful ones are the saturated fats and the trans fatty acid.  Read more...

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The Other Side of Cholesterol: Rx for a Healthy Heart

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Prescriptions for a Healthy Heart

The body of evidence regarding the role our emotional and spiritual health plays in supporting our heart’s function, preventing and healing heart disease. In addition to recommending exercise, a healthy diet, nutritional supplements, and employing relaxation methods, here’s a few more helpful tips:

1. Live in the moment. The past is over, and can only affect you now, by the way you think and feel about it. You are truly in the driver’s seat. Its critical to let go of a victim perspective and cultivate one of acknowledging what you’ve survived. Life is indeed a precious gift that was bestowed upon us to enjoy.

2. Forgive yourself and others. The critical part of living in the moment and letting go of the past, may well be forgiving. Holding on to hurtful experiences does not harm the person who hurt us, but ourselves. It’s very much like walking around with a bag of old, stinky garbage. Its time to let it go.  Read more...

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Effective Ways to Reduce Cholesterol Naturally

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Atherosclerosis is known commonly as hardening of the arteries and is one of the leading signs of high cholesterol. It also is a danger signal for an increased risk of stroke or heart attack. Making sure your cholesterol levels are in balance is of utmost importance. It is possible to reduce cholesterol naturally through simple diet adjustments and cholesterol lowering dietary supplements.

As far as diet adjustments go, there are several different approaches that have proven to be effective. A low fat diet is often recommended to lower cholesterol although research does not necessarily support this method.

Physicians like Dr. Dean Ornish have helped many people recover from, and even reverse, heart disease by combining a low fat, vegetarian diet with stress reduction and exercise. Another diet strategy that has been successful for some people is the so-called “low carb diet”. There are many variations of the low carb diet including Atkins and the Zone diet developed by Dr. Barry Sears.

Dr. Sears advocates a strict regulation of carbohydrate, fat and protein ratios in meals which can help regulate metabolism. This approach often results in healthy weight loss as well as improving cholesterol balance. There have been reports of health improvements in many different areas as a result of following Dr. Sears’ diet plan.  Read more...

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Beyond Cholesterol: How Spirituality Affects Your Heart

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The most provocative and substantive studies have been those that explored the once taboo topic of the effect prayer has on disease. I have often referred to spirituality as the “S word” in medicine. For too many years, modern medicine has focused on the body as a machine, minimized the impact of the body-mind link and aggressively negated and ignored the impact of the spirit. Fortunately, a few daring physicians and scientists have researched this fascinating arena.

The first study, conducted by Dr. Randy Byrd, M.D., at the University of California at San Francisco during the 1980s, involved 393 patients in a cardiac intensive-care unit, divided into experimental and control groups. All of the patients were seriously ill with a variety of heart ailments and were carefully matched for age and severity and type of disease. Dr. Byrd asked people of various faiths (Jews, Protestants, and Catholics) to pray for the sick individuals several times a day. Each person had at least seven persons praying for a rapid recovery, prevention of complications, and holding the belief that the prayer would be beneficial to the patient. This double-blind study (meaning neither the patients or doctors knew the group assignment) had astonishing results: Despite the similarities, the experimental (prayed for) group experienced a statistically significant decrease of serious complications, including pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs), congestive heart failure, cardiac arrests, and pneumonia. Even more remarkable, no one in the experimental group died.  Read more...

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The Hidden Link-Heart Disease, Hostility and Other Emotions Part 2

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

A remarkable finding, that more heart attacks happen on Monday morning between 8:00 a.m. and 12 noon, than any other time of the week. Also, this finding is unique to humans, and is not found in any other animal. Scientists theorized that the occurrence of these heart attacks is not linked to bioryhythms, but is due to the psychological meaning of Monday morning, that happens to many people, after having 2 days off. Monday morning, unfortunately, means returning the a job of at best, minimal, if any satisfaction. And this recognition leads to the clustering of heart attacks. And made me wonder if fewer heart attacks might occur on Friday evening or during the weekend.

Many years ago, when I first went into practice, I encountered the granddaughter of a patient. She had several chronic conditions, heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. I asked her how was her grandmother doing, since I hadn’t seen her in a few months. “Grandmother’s fine. She only gets sick when she’s upset.” I’d never heard anyone express that areness of the link between our emotions and our health so clearly.  Read more...

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Foods To Lower Cholesterol — What You Should Be Eating

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

If you have high cholesterol levels and are wanting to eat certain foods to lower cholesterol, what you have to remember is that although food can play a part in cholesterol levels the main factor in how much is in your bloodstream is down to how much your liver produces. However, every little helps and if there are certain foods to lower cholesterol available, why not use them?

A food group that can really help with cholesterol levels is oily fish along the lines of salmon, tuna or mackerel. The reason why it has to be specifically oily fish is because of the omega threes that they contain; the essential fats in these omega3’s cannot be found anywhere else. The Omega threes from oily fish help the body to reduce the LDL (bad) cholesterol and raise the HDL (good) cholesterol. In addition to that, this type of omega3 also helps to reduce triglyceride levels and when you take into consideration high triglycerides plus high LDL levels lead to heart disease then this is quite significant.  Read more...

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