Food SCAMS: Dr. Chauncey Crandall Warns of Fat-Free Scam
When you are confronted with two packages of identical foods in the supermarket and one says “fat-free” and the other does not, which ...
To best explain heart disease, allow me to tell you a bit about how your heart works. As you probably know, your heart is a pump. Its one and only job is to pump blood to the rest of your body. But what you may not know is that to do this, ...
The so-called “gold standard” of testing for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in the heart is called a coronary catheterization or coronary angiogram, which is an invasive test that involves injecting dye into the coronary arteri...
You know that eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly are important habits for a healthy heart. But did you know that you could still be undermining all your efforts with some surprisingly common bad habits?
“A number of activities ...
Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics have been a tremendous boon to human society. These drugs wipe out bacterial infection and they’ve saved millions of people.
But because antibiotics eliminate all bacteria, they destroy both t...
Although arthritis is usually spoken of as a single ailment, the term actually refers to about 100 different forms of the condition. Of those, two specific types can cause cardiac-like pain: osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoarth...
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a common sweetener in sodas and fruit-flavored drinks. As use of high fructose corn syrup has increased, so have levels of obesity and related health problems in the country.
HFCS is corn syrup that has und...
A new study has identified two more risk factors for cardiovascular disease: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
More than 1.5 million Americans have these disorders, which are known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an...
One of the nation’s top cardiac experts is hailing a new major scientific study confirming that, when it comes to high blood pressure, lower is better.
Renowned cardiologist Chauncey Crandall, M.D., tells Newsmax Health he hopes the new fi...
Every year in the United States, more than 700,000 people suffer a heart attack, and almost 400,000 people die of heart disease.
It’s estimated that 80 percent of these heart attacks could be prevented through lifestyle changes and medical...
