We have done articles before about LDLs and HDLs. By and large, HDLs are protective and function as your body’s garbage trucks. They scour your arteries for left-over cholesterol and take it back to your liver for reprocessing. You want a high HDL...
Nuts - you’ve just gotta love ’em. They’re the friendly food that brings you many more benefits than you expected. Be a good buddy to nuts, invite them to breakfast, lunch, or dinner and discover the tasty, healthful surprises they’ll deliver.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the developed world. Although this disease employs more doctors than any other branch of medicine, recent discoveries show some fundamental flaws in our understanding of it - particularly the basic...
American heart disease guru Dr Dean Ornish recently wrote: "Say no to the egg" (New York Times, Sept 15, 1997). ...
IT'S THE DIET, STUPID: It's just as good as drugs for reducing cholest
It’s a myth that cholesterol causes clogged arteries and heart disease. The truth is, no one knows exactly what the connection is between fat, cholesterol and heart disease, but there’s ample evidence that the public is misinformed.
Heart patients with normal cholesterol levels are not helped by cholesterol lowering drugs, a research team has concluded. They discovered that the drugs had "no measurable benefit" on coronary ar ...
Scientists have emphasized what most vegetarians have known for ages soy products will give you lower cholesterol levels than will animal protein. ...
In WDDTY vol 13 no 4 (Alternatives), Harald Gaier tells us that lowering cholesterol helps to avoid heart attacks. I think a lack of vitamin C is the real cause of heart attacks.
Alternative medicine has an extraordinary number of remedies for dealing with those illnesses that come out in winter months.