Increase Whole Grains, Decrease Risk of Heart Failure
You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that whole grains are good for you. However, you may not know that increasing your consumption of whole grains can reduce your chances of heart disease quite dramatically. Conversely, slightly increasing your consumption of high fat dairy and eggs can increase your odds at suffering from the common modern ailment.
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Under his leadership, we have an opportunity to ensure that women’s health is an integral part of the efforts to fix our health-care system and to engage the country in a conversation about the importance of prevention and family planning.
While we know there will be efforts in states across the country to undermine a woman’s right to make personal health decisions, we believe that the American people have clearly spoken: They are ready for a new Read the rest of this entry »
Kries draws on her background as a professional dancer who studied at
the American School of Ballet and danced with several top ballet
companies to create the “JENNIFER KRIES: HOT BODY! DANCE” DVD
($19.99). In this program there are three progressive 20-minute
segments for beginners, intermediate and advanced levels that include
a warm-up and invigorating jazz and Latin dance sequences. These are
the actual warm-ups and dance combinations regularly Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2008)
— Research presented at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), found that coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms presented in the context of a stressful life event were identified as psychogenic in origin when presented by women and organic in origin when presented by men. The study could help explain why there Read the rest of this entry »
While consumers in Asia are worried about the health impact of food products containing milk, food safety regulators are scrambling about setting standards for melamine in food. Melamine has once again become the focal point of a global food safety scare. The first reported incident happened in 2007 when pet food produced in China was found to have been contaminated with melamine. The second incident reported happened only a few weeks ago when melamine-contaminated Read the rest of this entry »
Chinese medicine says that as the warm weather becomes cool in autumn, yang decreases and yin increases. Health measures, therefore, must follow the “nourish and close” (養收 yangshou) principle.
During autumn, the air becomes dry and the temperatures gradually decrease. The weather may even change drastically. Chinese medicine says that man should drink more water in order to balance the system and prevent the skin from becoming dry. Read the rest of this entry »
WellPoint's Profit Declines 5.4% on Bad Investments (Update3)
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) –
, the health insurer
for one of every nine Americans, said third-quarter profit fell
5.4 percent, dragged down by bad investments in
,
The company dropped as much as 4.4 percent in New York
trading today after reporting investment losses of $562.6
million, or 71 cents a share. Chief Executive Officer
said more writedowns may be taken in the fourth quarter,
and Read the rest of this entry »
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of American women. One out of every four women will die of it each year, more than 250,000 from heart attacks alone. Yet, stop a woman on the street and she is unlikely to list heart disease as a concern. Likewise, few realize that more women than men die of heart disease or that signs and symptoms in women can be subtle—nearly two-thirds of women who die suddenly of a heart attack had no prior symptoms. Additionally, Read the rest of this entry »
In long overdue news for increasingly sedentary first world citizens (and their marketing-driven appetites) around the globe, French scientists have discovered a drug said to ‘trick’ the body to burn fat away – even on a high fat diet reports
The BBC.
Cell Metabolism.
SRT1720 is a chemical cousin of resveratrol, (the beneficial antioxidant extract found in red wine) and targets a protein called SIRT1 which is understood to Read the rest of this entry »
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