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Can Fiber Help Diabetics?
Fiber forms an important part of our diet. Unfortunately, many of us ignore this either intentionally or unintentionally. Some people will find fiber...
Why Do People Eat Vegetables?
People eat vegetables for different reasons. For instance, George, a 54-year-old man, has his wonderful reasons for eating vegetables. He chose to be vegetarian since he was 28 not because of health or religious issues.
Things You May Not Know About Sugar
We usually view sugar as some white crystalline stuff that usually attracts ants if we do not keep them properly. But in reality, it is more than just that...
Can Diet With Supplements And Exercise Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
Some health professionals and experts do believe that a low-glycemic load diet, coupled with multivitamin, chromium and cinnamon, plus moderate amount of exercise usually can reverse this condition.
Is Having Fast Food Restaurant In Kid’s Hospital A Wise Choice?
Data collected showed that at least 59 of the United States’ 250 children’s hospitals have fast-food restaurants. This may give 2 different messages...
How Needles Help A Stroke Patient To Recover
A stroke left the right side of Steve’s body paralyzed. Even a few sessions before the 40 sessions prescribed for stroke patients, he has already begun to return to normal life.
What Healthy Diet Is All About?
Diet, as part of a healthy lifestyle, plays an important role in maintaining one’s healthy body. It will help reduce chances of getting many health issues, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, etc that may ultimately lead to the risk of heart disease.
Children Diets Can Influence What Their Parents Eat
Most health researchers have usually attributed the correlation between adults’ and children’s diets to parental influence. Interestingly, a report, released in the early Jan 2007 in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, revealed otherwise...
Do You Believe Smoking Is A Way To Stay Slim?
Smoking can help one stays slim. Are you sure? Unfortunately, yes and it is a common belief among teenage girls. Read more to find out why...
Can Diabetes Be Managed By Supplements?
It is important to get enough B vitamins to balance sugar levels but relying solely on B-complex supplement alone will not solve the problem. Medication should be taken but meanwhile one should...
The Danger Of Exercising Hard Without Consultation
Exercise is a good habit that will bring us many health benefits. It plays an important role in the prevention of heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and many other diseases. However, it may also get one into trouble especially when he or she has not exercised for a long time.
Hypertension In The Elderly Patients
It is estimated that more than half of the people aged 65 and above around the world have some form of hypertension, or high blood pressure. Hypertension is a common condition in older people.
What To Do If You Have The Metabolic Syndrome?
Though it is still not very clear what causes the metabolic syndrome, it seems that overweight does play a very important role. The syndrome is clearly more commonly found in those people who are overweight than in those who are not. Even if one has the metabolic syndrome, he or she should not worry too much. Why?
Coronary Heart Disease In The Elderly
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity in the elderly. In western countries, it accounts for 80 – 85 percent of all cardiac deaths in older people.
How Hypertension Is Linked To Diabetes And Kidney Failure?
Are you aware that about 40 percent of Asian diabetic patients with hypertension eventually develop kidney disease, 10 percent of these patients will require dialysis within 10 years of diagnosis?
How To Cut Down On Trans Fat?
Trans fat is now blamed as bad stuff that increases LDL (bad cholesterol) and simultaneously reduces HDL (good cholesterol). Foods with trans fat are everywhere. Besides candy, noodles, cookies, chips, there are hundreds of processed supermarket products contain it in different amounts.
How A Diabetic Manages His Disease
Family history, obesity, lack of exercise, and unhealthy diet can cause one to develop such disease. If it is not managed properly, it may result in complications such as kidney failure, blindness, and neuropathy. Diabetics are also at a higher risk to develop heart disease.
Staying Healthy Need Not Diet But Exercise
Now, some British researchers have advised clinically obese women don’t go on diet but change the way they eat, and they can eat whatever they want in moderation to improve their health.
What Smoking Can Offer You?
It is known that smoking is a risk factor of heart disease. But, do you really know what smoking can offer you? Perhaps the facts stated hereafter will give you some clues...
Drug Coated Stents May Be Harmful To Patients!
Drug-coated stents have hailed as a major advance just 3 years ago are now being blamed to cause blood clots and other complications in certain high-risk cases and patients.
The Importance Of Shaping Good Eating Habits For Children
Obesity in schoolchildren has increased in the last decade. The impact of obesity is that more children are now with Type 2 or lifestyle diabetes as a result of their diets and less exercise. This is a worldwide problem that is not to be overlooked because diabetes and obesity are two of the leading risk factors of heart disease.
Prevention of Diabetes Is Not Difficult At All
Diabetes is a common chronic disease that could possibly lead to heart disease, if it is not appropriately controlled. When one passes the age of 40 and has....
Dieting of Mothers Can Harm Their Kids!
As mother, your dieting habits can have a bad influence on your children, especially when your dieting is based on body image and not health. Some research indicates that youngsters learn attitude about dieting through observation. This means that some youngsters may develop an unhealthy fixation on body image.
Second Hand Smoke Can Be More Dangerous Than What You Think
If I do not smoke, I do not need to worry about it. This statement is only partially right. People may not aware that each time someone smokes, poisons are released into the air.
Blood Test To Predict Risk of Heart Disease For Diabetics
Diabetes has long been regarded as a risk factor of heart disease. The specific relationship between the two was unclear although diabetes is known to double the risk of heart disease.
Exercise Before Meal May Keep You Heart Healthy!
There is no question that exercise is always part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. But when is the best time to exercise? After reading this article, perhaps you may want to exercise before meal.
Is Fruit Fiber Superior to Vegetable Fiber?
Not all fiber is created equal, and not all may offer equal protection for heart disease. Only dietary fiber from cereals and fruits, but not vegetables, appeared to reduce the risk of heart disease.
2 Heart-Healthy Snacks Using Colored Fruits
Two recipes show how you can make use of purple-colored and orange-colored fruits to bake two heart-healthy snacks: Blueberry and Strawberry Muffins, and Peach Melba.
Arteries Can Be Damaged In Obese Children!
Millions of children could end up with diabetes, heart disease, and other problems linked to being overweight and their parents are not even aware of it.
How To Achieve Target Blood Pressure?
If people with high blood pressure can achieve their target level at all time, chances that they will develop any kind of heart disease will be greatly reduced.
Is There Any Heart Healty Alternative To Your Favorite Spread?
Mayonnaise, cream cheese, and any other tasty spread that are favored by people in the past are quickly replaced by nut butters that share the stellar nutritional profile of peanut butter.
Healthy Foods In Orange Can Prevent Heart Disease Too!
Fruit and vegetables in bright orange can in fact help to boost our immune system as they contain beta carotene and bioflavonoids, which are essential in reducing the risk of cancer and heart disease. They also help maintain good eyesight and glowing skin.
Can Stress Be Measured?
Can stress be measured? Yes, of course. The correlation between stress and health of your heart can always be measured by taking a stress test.
Can Heart Attacks Be Prevented?
Prevention of most premature heart attacks should be possible. Previous conventional wisdom had however suggested that only half of the risks of premature heart attack could be forecasted.
How To Prevent Heart Disease For Women After Menopause? Part I
Risk of coronary heart disease is much lower for women than for men of comparable age. Women’s risk, however, increases significantly after menopause.
No Magic Method For Weight Loss
Lifestyle is difficult to change. Specialists do realize this fact but they still prefer patients to lose weight in this manner rather than taking weight-loss medicines.
Meditation Can Also Make Your Heart Happy
Drugs cannot effectively reduce stress levels and should not be considered as the primary approach. A happy, spiritual or emotional heart is basically good medicine. Meditation is good for your heart.
9 Yummy Foods That Can Harm Your Heart
Yummy foods are loved by people of all ages who are probably aware that these foods may pose some threats to their health. Here are 9 so called ‘junk foods' that are high in calories but low in nutritional content; they do contain fats, especially trans fats.
Eat Mediterranean To Save The Heart
There was a total cholesterol drop of 7.5 percent among the participants who were on the Mediterranean diet, while the total cholesterol had experienced a fall of 4.5 percent for those on low-fat diet. Based on this reduction, the overall cardiovascular risk fell 15 percent with the Mediterranean diet and 9 percent with the low-fat diet.
A Meal Without Salt Is Not A Meal
A meal without salt is not a meal. Do you agree with this proverb?
10 Tips To Drive Away Stress
If you do have a healthy diet with moderate exercise, but you are constantly under stress, there is still a possibility that you will become a candidate of heart disease. But one may tell you this: in the present competitive world, how can you live without stress?
A New Look Of Egg
We are frequently advised by our doctors that if you have high cholesterol level, you should avoid taking any egg especially the egg yolk. So, most of us will equate taking egg yolk to having heart disease because a high cholesterol level will possibly raise the risk of heart disease. Such fear has been instilled in our mind for the last thirty years.
Chocolate Bar Can Make You And Your Heart Happy
Is this some kind of joke? No, this is true because a small study conducted in 2005 by University of L'Aquila in Italy had found that dark chocolate (not milk chocolate) may help reduce blood pressure and boost body's ability to metabolize sugar from food.
Traditional Therapies Can Prevent Heart Disease Too
It seems that these so called medicines (mainly from the West) could not either treat the diseases effectively or have side effects that have brought patients into another level of frustration.
A Balance Diet Can Make Your Heart Happy
A healthy diet can not only reduce the risk of developing heart disease but also increase the chances of survival after a heart attack.
A Simple Way To Understand Fats
"Don't take too much fats!" This is a piece of advice we used to get from people around us. Are all fats bad for us? Of course no! Nevertheless, before we can decide which fats we should take and which fats we should not take, it is better to understand the nature of fats and where they can be found in the foods we consumed.
Coffee - To Drink Or Not To Drink?
Is coffee really bad for our heart? This is a question that coffee lovers keep asking their doctors hoping to get an answer that can allow them to drink as much coffee as possible. It is also an issue that is continuously subject to debate over many years. Unfortunately, there is still no conclusive evidence on the connection between coffee (caffeine) and heart disease. From time to time, contradicting reports were released.
Can Needles Really Manage Your Weight?
Recently, a new way of weight loss solution has become popular using needles. What is this? Another sales gimmick? Not really! It is a technique used by TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practitioners known as "Acupuncture".
8 Questions You Should Ask Your Doctor About Your Heart
You must have many questions to ask your doctors on how to maintain a healthy heart. This article highlights eight most commonly asked questions and typical answers from one of the many cardiologists.
Eat For a Healthy Heart - Fill Up On Fibre!
Food that is bad for our body is usually tasty and vice versa. But if you wish to have a healthy heart, you probably have no choice but to follow some suggestions made by doctors and dietitians.
8 Tips to Lower Risks of Heart Disease Starting From Young
Unhealthy foods and lifestyle have brought overweight or obesity to many children around the world. This will increase their chance of getting heart disease later on. However, research showed that coronary heart disease can be prevented from an early age...
Two 3-5-7 principles that can bring you a heart-healthy lifestyle
A heart-healthy lifestyle can be achieved by proper diet and moderate exercise. Two simple principles show how this can be done.

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