Health professionals have recognized the nutritive and the health benefits of wine for years even centuries. Hippocrates recommended specific wines to purge fever, disinfect wounds, as diuretics, or nutritional supplements, around 450 B.C. Many books have been written about the curative properties of wine as early as 1410 A.D. Many studies worldwide have concluded that [...]
Cholesterol is also found in some of the foods you eat. Cholesterol is a lipid found in the cell membranes of all animal tissues, and it is transported in the blood plasma of all animals. Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance made in the liver and found in certain foods, such as food from animals, [...]
Elevated Cholesterol has been conclusively proven to be an independent risk factor for heart disease and strokes. The importance of screening, evaluating and treating elevated cholesterol levels cannot be stressed enough. Research has clearly shown that reducing elevated cholesterol levels can reduce the risk of heart disease. 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 [...]
You are taking quite a few prescription medications to help with the symptoms of cardiomyopathy, and you are feeling okay, but the improvements in your heart aren’t happening very quickly or maybe not at all. You are feeling better, but you still have heart failure and you might be wondering if you will need to [...]
The HDL LDL ratio is an indicator of your risk for heart disease. The better the ratio, the less likely you are to have a heart attack or other cardiovascular problems. I will show you how to increase HDL and the foods to raise HDL.
About the Ratio
High Density Lipoprotein is a substance that carries cholesterol [...]
Symptoms of heart attack vary greatly.
The symptoms you experience may be different from the one experienced by a relative or a friend. For instance, you may have only minor chest pain while your relative or friend has violent pain……
A heart attack is, what can I say, a traumatic and frightening event. You probably don’t want [...]
Recent studies have uncovered possibly worrisome links between snoring and heart disease.
In 2004, the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine published a study performed by medical professionals from Alfred Hospital at Melbourne, Australia. The study was headed by Prof. Matthew Naughton, the person in charge of the Sleep Disorders Center of the said hospital. [...]
While there are many illnesses that fall under the umbrella of heart disease, one that receives little attention is Cardiomyopathy. This disease is caused by long term alcohol abuse and leads to heart failure in the victim.
The symptoms of this debilitating disease usually start to occur after the disease has advanced. The symptoms are swelling [...]
The best time to consider a bypass is before you have any symptoms of heart disease.Though weighing only about ten ounces, a healthy heart is capable of pumping 1,000 gallons of life sustaining blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels by beating an incredible 100,000 times a day for as much as 100 years or [...]
Know Thine Own Heart!
Do you know your own heart? Many men and women will say ‘Yes’. So, we say chest pain, irregular heart beat, cold sweat, pain in the arm, and so on. It’s true, those are typical symptoms. But, do you know that those are the symptoms of a man’s heart attack!
Women often have [...]
