You Are Here: Home » Posts tagged with "cholesterol levels"
How High Cholesterol Levels Increase Cardiac Arrhythmias
Cholesterol can affect the flow of the electrical currents that generate the heart beat, according to a study from two UBC cardiovascular researchers funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon. The research team has just published the...
Statins Prevent Excitotoxic Damage Seen in Alzheimer’s
High cholesterol levels are considered to be a risk factor not only for cardiovascular disease including stroke, but also for the development of Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to the cholesterol reducing effect of medications known as statins,...
Low-carb Eco-Atkins Diet May Beat Low-fat Diet for Heart Health
JAMA / Archives – Overweight individuals who ate a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate diet high in plant-based proteins for four weeks lost weight and experienced improvements in blood cholesterol levels and other heart disease risk factors, according...
Saturated Fat: What to Do?
One of the biggest areas of dietary confusion today is whether saturated fat is bad for us or not. For the most part, conventional medical thought remains firmly in the “saturated fat is bad for you” corner, while a growing number of people...
New Guidelines for Aspirin Use to Prevent Stroke Or Heart Attack
AHRQ.gov – Patients and clinicians should consider risk factors – including age, sex, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking and risk of gastrointestinal bleeding – before deciding whether to use aspirin to prevent heart...
What You Need to Know About Thyroid Disease
You can’t see it, you can’t feel it and most people have no idea what it does. In fact, most people don’t know about their thyroid unless they’ve been affected by the often-elusive symptoms of thyroid disease.
Coconuts — Health Food Or Foe?
Remember the old song “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts?” (It still lives on You Tube, if you don’t remember.) Coconut and coconut oil are becoming such increasingly popular foods, I think this silly song from the 1940s...