Articles, tagged with "disease risk factors", page 2

Fish Oil For Cardiovascular Health: Fishing For A Way to Prevent Coronary Disease

With the abundance of food and the ease of living that modern conveniences afford us, it has become the main reason why many of us are much less active than our forefathers. Unfortunately, such widespread mellowness has a detrimental effect on the health ... Read >
Author: Francis Murphy

Diabetes diet: the low glycemic index diet is much more than just a fad diet

A diabetes diet is crucial when a person suffers from diabetes. The low glycemic index diet is not a special food package but is just a little more than a diet plan for healthy living for people in general. A low gi diet is not a special food that is pac... Read >
Author: Jose M. Talavera

Heart Diseases Prevention, Ways to Prevent Heart Disease

Our heart pumps blood and it's the lifeline of our body. We can't ignore them. In order to keep them safe we should prevent the rise of Triglycerides level in our body. These are fats, which are produced in our body. Excess of Triglycerides in our body ca... Read >
Author: John Adison

Depression May Have Connection To Cardiac Death In Women Without Previous Heart Disease

Medical News Today reports that new data published in the March 17, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggest that relatively healthy women without previous heart conditions suffering severe depression are at increased risk o... Read >
Author: Apexcardiology

Eating For A Healthy Heart

Here's a conundrum: While experts agree that high cholesterol and blood pressure are crucial heart disease risk factors, many people who suffer chest pain or even heart attacks have levels that are perfectly normal. This puzzle has prompted researchers to... Read >
Author: Jeanie Smith

Health Effects of Being Overweight: The Dangerous Truths

Weight and health are strongly related to each other. The risk of disease goes up as weight gain pushes you out of the healthy weight range and into the overweight, obese range. Till date, obesity has been linked with more than thirty medical conditions. ... Read >
Author: Rajeevk

Atorvastatin is an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor

Atorvastatin is an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, also known as a "statin. Atorvastatin should be used with extreme caution in CHILDREN younger than 10 years old and in those who have not reached puberty; safety and effectiveness in these children have not... Read >
Author: dianadj

Tai Chi for Your Head and Your Heart

We've written before about the benefits of Tai Chi for your brain fitness and your immune system. In fact, we go into some detail on this topic in a couple sections of our new book, BrainFit for Life. Now a new study shows some striking effects of... Read >
Author: Simon Evans

Information on prostate cancer and it’s causes

Introduction : Prostate cancer is cancer of the small walnut-shaped gland in males that produces seminal fluid, the fluid that nourishes and transports sperm. Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in men, affecting about one in six ... Read >
Author: peterhutch

The Benefits of Dietary Fiber

The old adage, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," couldn't ring more true today, as Americans are finally beginning to realize the staggering health benefits of dietary fiber. Boosting the fiber content of your diet does not mean you'll be gnawing... Read >
Author: lazysubmit

Studies Show Yoga has Multiple Benefits

With thousands of Yoga Studios and Millions of Yoga and Pilates Students participating in the Yoga Month 09.2008 national awareness campaign and the 10 City Yoga Health Festivals you might ask yourself, what exactly are the health benefits of yoga? Is the... Read >
Author: Johannes R. Fisslinger

Metabolic Syndrome

Researchers have found certain variables play an important role in a person's chances of developing heart disease. These variables are called risk factors. In recent years, researchers have found that some of these heart disease risk factors cluster toget... Read >
Author: Li Ming Wong

Heart Disease Risk Factors: How to Avoid Increasing YOUR Risks

A heart disease risk factor is basically a lifestyle choice or habit followed by an individual that makes them more susceptible to this killer disease. Almost 60 million Americans have some kind of heart disease, which is the most prolific killer of adult... Read >
Author: Paul Schaverien

Depression | How Depression Hurts Your Heart

By Stacey Colino As if feeling bad weren't enough, negative emotions could be harming your heart. Over time, persistent blues, anxiety or anger can increase the risk of heart diseaseâ€"or make an existing condition worse. "Psychosocial factors are inc... Read >
Author: REMEDY Magazine

Digestive system what causes peptic ulcers

Peptic ulcer is a common disease affecting millions of people every year, appears on the duoden lining and at the area of the stomach, the duoden lining is eroded by the stomach acid and develops stomach and duodenal ulcers also known as peptic ulcer. It... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola

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