Chlorine is regularly used in our public water supply to combat infectious waterborne diseases, but it may be doing more harm than good. A public notice issued in Washington, DC, warned that a high level of bacteria
Figures suggest that heart disease in the United States has more than doubled, despite a drive to low fat, cholesterol lowering diets. ...
Women who follow low fat diets to reduce their cholesterol levels may be increasing their risk of heart disease, according to a Scottish study. ...
One of the reasons that medicine is so befuddled about this entire cholesterol business is its insistence upon searching for an isolated area where, dietetically speaking, we've gone wrong. In do ...
Individuals who have systolic hypertension and high levels of blood cholesterol in midlife appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in later life, report Fin ...
The Lancet recently waxed enthusiastic about the potential of growth hormone supplementation in elderly people to reverse some of the effects of old age. ...
The entire approach of lowering cholesterol is faulty. The Framingham Project, which followed a Massachusetts study group over time, found a significant correlation between total cholesterol and h ...
Lowering serum cholesterol levels may actually increase the risk of death from stroke, recent research suggests. ...
A dietary fibre called guar gum can reduce cholesterol levels by up to 26 per cent, new research has discovered. ...
High cholesterol, or hypercholesterinaemia, is conventionally treated with a low-fat diet, and a statin or anion-exchange resin drug. The drugs, however, come with a range of side-effects.
