[caption id="attachment_262" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Reduce your risk of heart failure with dark chocolate"][/caption] Forget diamonds, new research suggests that despite being loaded with calories, chocolate may be good for your health. Researchers in Boston and Stockholm examined data from a nine-year study of 31,823 women in Sweden to determine the effect of eating chocolate on heart disease and found that eating chocolate may reduce the risk of heart failure---when eaten in moderation Read More...
Peripheral Artery Diseases – Treatment and Control
April 4th, 2009 by admin
Peripheral artery disease (PAD), otherwise known as peripheral vascular disease, is a common circulatory problem, which narrows the arteries and reduces the blood flow to your limbs. Most of us do not find any signs and symptoms of it, but some may find a number of them. A few of these symptoms, that even you may have experienced, are: • numbness or pain in the leg muscles • painful cramps in your hips, thighs, or calf muscles • change in the color of your legs • sores on your feet or legs that won’t heal These heart diseases are caused by various reasons, the most common being atherosclerosis Read More...
Nutrients – Your Heart Needs Them!
March 30th, 2009 by Alex
Heart diseases are becoming more common these days in humans, that too, at an early stage in life. An alarming number of deaths occur due to these heart diseases. In fact, heart diseases are the leading single cause of death globally. In the United States alone 1 in 2 women die of heart disease. The sad fact is that this number is on the rise Read More...
Cardiac Health in Women
March 3rd, 2009 by Meredith
When I went to visit a friend, who is recovering from a heart surgery in the hospital, I was shocked to see the number of female patients in the ward. Most women fear breast cancer, as it is the most life-threatening disease among them. But recent health surveys reveal that more women die of heart attacks each year than men in the United States Read More...
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