Heart Disease Prevention

Scientists have finally discovered what might be causing the epidemic of heart disease and diabetes in this country. Is your baby safe from BPA in bottles? If you live in America and eat any packaged foods at all, you are probably also consuming the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA . Previous studies showed that BPA causes precancerous conditions, kidney and developmental problems in animals. But new research , published in the September 17th edition of the Journal of the American Medical... Read Full Story

Establish healthy habits at an early age With the new school year approaching and so many things to manage in order to get children ready, it can become easy to overlook one of the most fundamental aspects of a child’s life: nutrition. During vacation many routines may be neglected , and healthy meals shared with the family may be overlooked. With that in mind, the new school year can be seen as a fresh start and a way of getting the entire family back on a healthy track. Did you... Read Full Story

Mathematicians would like you to believe there is a hierarchy in the sciences, with them at the top. They would also like you to believe that two parallel lines eventually meet in a point at infinity, the justification for which is very clever indeed as they are very clever people and clever enough to put themselves at the top of a hierarchy of their own design . Second on the list is physics as you can’t have physics without math, followed by chemistry, which you cannot have without the... Read Full Story

Mathematicians would like you to believe there is a hierarchy in the sciences, with them at the top. They would also like you to believe that two parallel lines eventually meet in a point at infinity, the justification for which is very clever indeed as they are very clever people and clever enough to put themselves at the top of a hierarchy of their own design . Second on the list is physics as you can’t have physics without math, followed by chemistry, which you cannot have without the... Read Full Story

Homemade Chicken Soup is not only considered penicillin for a cold but now it has been found that chicken soup also has collagen proteins , that lower blood pressure. ACE inhibitors. Japanese researchers have found that collagen proteins found in chicken may actually lower blood your pressure. What these collagens appear to do, is act like the blood pressure medications called ACE inhibitors . Here are some medical wrongs, that ace inhibitors can cure or reduce: * Prevention of cardiovascular... Read Full Story

Yet more evidence today of wine providing benefits to health with the announcement from a new study suggesting a glass of vino with fish increases omega-3 in the blood helping to prevent heart disease. Wine drank in moderation has strong links with preventing heart disease and this latest study found that people who drink a glass a wine with fish will have higher levels of the essential fatty acid omega-3. Researchers at the Giuseppe of Catholic University in Campobasso, Italy discovered... Read Full Story

How Do You Know You Are Having A Heart Attack. A lot of people asked me what it felt like when I had the heart attack and to be honest my toothache was worse. Iam not being funny but I am now going to take you step by step through the hour of my life were I could have died. The first hour does determine whether you maybe live or die so do read on, it might just save your life or that of a family member. I awoke at 8am Sunday January the 20th 2008 and as soon as my feet touched the floor I... Read Full Story

The risks and dangers of obesity are obvious, but the latest study into being overweight has suggested that carrying just a few extra pounds will increase your chances of heart failure. Being seven pounds over your ideal weight carries with it the risk of congestive heart failure, a life-threatening condition that affects the heart’s ability to pump blood around the body. The study, carried out over twenty years, followed the weight of over 20,000 male doctors and found that being... Read Full Story

Heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases are the No. 1 killer of American women, claiming the lives of more than 450,000 American women each year. Over the last 25 years, the death rate for heart disease in men has declined steadily (by more than 17%), while the death rate for women has declined by only 2.5%, resulting in a disparity in heart disease mortality in women compared to men. This statistic is a sobering one and indicates there is much more to be done for... Read Full Story

Holiday Heart Attack Problems. I had my holiday in Spain booked last year well before my heart attack in January and was in a way dreading going away as all sort of visions went through my head like dying of a heart attack on holiday, a Holiday Heart Attack !! First thing I made sure of was that I had all my medication with me and then had a word with both the holiday rep and the hotel rep. To my surprise I was told that all I had to do if I had any problems was lift my mobile phone and dial... Read Full Story