Beware of This One Hidden Fat
You’ve probably heard about the dangers of saturated fat, which is usually animal fat and solidifies at room temperature. Examples include butter, lard, meat fat, solid
shortening, and palm oil.
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Heart Health tips
How to Prevent Inflammation
If you have just one of these sources of inflammation, you are at increased risk for a heart attack. What’s more, heart disease can develop without any obvious symptoms, so you have to make sure that your doctor is aware of your risk factors ...
Stop Drinking Diet Soda to Help Your Heart
After nearly three decades as a cardiologist, Dr. Chauncey Crandall has found that the vast majority of overweight patients who drink diet soda do not get slimmer. “For years, I thought this was due to the inclination of diet soda drinkers to...
Exercise ‘As Effective As Medicine’
The work in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) looked at hundreds of trials involving nearly 340,000 patients to assess the merits of exercise and drugs in preventing death.
Physical activity rivalled some heart drugs and outperformed stroke ...
Eat More of This to Lose Weight
Dr. Crandall says when it comes to losing weight, it’s not just what you eat, but also when you eat it that can make a difference on the scale, according to a new study.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel set out to find out how ...
Smog and Fumes Lead To Heart Disease?
For the past several decades, studies have continued to shown air pollution to cause several respiratory ailments. However, a recent study shows that smog and fumes can also cause heart disease. Even worse, it was linked to several deaths to ai...
5 Unlikely Foods That Lower Blood Pressure
Many people think of alternative therapies as a way to replace conventional drugs or procedures. Crandall believes the best way to avoid taking drugs is by making lifestyle changes. For instance, to reduce your blood pressure, the best thing y...
Doctor’s Visit? Bring a Friend and a Pen
The days of frequent, unhurried follow-up doctor’s visits or phone calls are gone. So make the time you spend with your doctor count by knowing what you are going to ask ahead of time. Don’t rely on your memory alone during your visit. Writ...
Women’s Heart Attack Symptoms
Dr. Chauncey Crandall says heart attack symptoms are not always the same for women as men. If women are unaware of their risks, they won’t be alert about identifying them. As in men, chest pain can occur in women. But here’s a rundown on th...
2 Things That Can Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease
We’ve heard about the many dangers of heart disease and lifestyle factors that can increase your risk of heart disease. But according to a study published in July in the journal of the American Heart Association Circulation, there are two spe...