A look at omega fatty acids
DEBATE ABOUT omega fatty acids has increased over the last decade. While separating fact from myth can be frustrating, let’s attempt to do just that. What are omega fatty acids? Contrary to popular belief,...
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Monitoring blood pressure for diabetes
How often should I have my blood pressure checked? Your blood pressure will be checked at least once a year at your annual review. If you have high blood pressure, you will probably have...
A link between the brain and the heart
Have you noticed an older friend or relative feeling a little down lately? A link between the brain and the heart may shed some light on why the elderly suffer depression. Eighty-five-year-old Margaret Hawkins...
Healthy eating for diabetes
Myth “People with diabetes can’t eat sugar” Truth It’s impossible to avoid sugar altogether but sugar and sugar foods are converted into glucose faster than other foods so they can cause a sudden rise...
Connections between nutrition, genetics and disease
Do you think that nutrition needs to get more personalized? It certainly needs to get more personalized for specific diseases like heart disease and like osteoporosis. Specific diseases that we know have a nutritional...
Long-term Complications of Diabetes
I’ve just been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. What sort of health problems might I develop in the long term? You are at increased risk of two main sets of complications: those affecting your...
Type 2 diabetes and heart disease
What is the link between Type 2 diabetes and heart disease? Type 2 diabetes is more than simply a raised blood glucose level. You are also likely to develop various problems related to your...
High Blood Pressure Prevention Q & A
What three things could a person start doing today that would help prevent the development of high blood pressure? Probably the most important thing is to get salt out of the diet. I wondered...
Fruits and Veggies Lower Blood Pressure
Doctors may soon be writing patients prescriptions for five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, if British researchers have their way. In the first long-term study of its kind, researchers found people who...
Q and A on Common Pregnancy Complication
What is preeclampsia? Preeclampsia is when a woman develops high blood pressure and starts having swelling and spotting in the urine. A lot of women are more familiar with the term toxemia, an older...
Metabolic syndrome risk factors that increase your risk for heart disease and diabetes
Metabolic syndrome is really a clustering of risk factors that makes up the syndrome, like a high waist circumference. When you carry the weight around your waist, it puts you at higher risk of...
Understanding Diabetes
What is Type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes and used to be called “maturity onset” or “non-insulin-dependent” diabetes. When you have diabetes your body cannot use glucose...
High blood pressure (hypertension)
High blood pressure causes strokes, heart attacks, aneurisms, kidney failure and may other diseases. In most cases the cause is unknown. While drug treatment is frequently required, doctors stress the benefits of a healthy...
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an umbrella term used to describe any abnormal condition characterized by dysfunction of the heart and blood vessels (including arteries and veins). The most common cardiovascular diseases in the United...
Medicinal Properties of Cinnamon
Cinnamon has a lot to offer: it is a potent antifungal and antibacterial agent; it helps reduce blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes; it lowers cholesterol. And this is only a partial...
Overweight and Obesity
According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLB), BMI is the common measurement used to determine weight status. Overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity are defined suing BMI as follows: • Overweight –...
Nattokinase and Blood Pressure
Natto has been used as a traditional folk medicine in Japan to treat high blood pressure, and recent studies confirm this benefit. In 1995, researchers studied the effects of nattokinase on high blood pressure...
Hypertension
, is often called a silent killer, because the condition usually has no symptoms. If left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to heart disease and stroke. That’s worrisome, considering that one in three...
The Benefits of Boosting Calcium: All the Way to Weight Loss
An estimated 44 percent to 87 percent of Americans don’t get enough calcium, including children, who are falling severely short on this mineral critical for proper growth and development. Unfortunately, there are not usually...
Blood Sugar and Metabolic Syndrome
High blood pressure. High blood sugar. Unhealthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Excess abdominal (belly) fat. If you were to look into a crowd of Americans, say, at a football game or large concert, and...
Vitamin C and Common cold
Many claims have been made about the role of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in regard to the prevention and treatment of the common cold. Since 1970, there have been over twenty double-blind studies designed...