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Articles about Reverse Heart Disease (0-50 of 458)
- Home Remedies For Heart Disease Problem
By: Dr. Mital John | - The fundamental conditioning factor in all heart disease is diet. A corrective diet designed to alter body chemistry and improve the overall quality of nutritional intake can, in many cases, reverse the degenerative changes that have occurred in the heart and blood vessels.
The diet should be lacto-vegetarian, low sodium and calories. It should be composed of high quality, natural organic foods, with emphasis on whole grains, seeds, fruits and vegetables. Foods that should be elimi ...
Tags: remedy for heart disease, heart disease, heart problem, hear
- How To Reverse Heart Disease
By: Michael Sellar | - In 1996 scientist Matthias Rath published a study in which an Ultrafast CT was used to scan 55 heart disease patients over the course of a year to measure calcium deposits. In this way the growth of the deposits could be measured. After this period they were given a high dose nutritional supplement containing about 30 different nutrients to take each day for a year. They were scanned at six month and twelve months.
After the first 6 months, growth was slowed a little. But after 12 ...
Tags: artery, , arteries, , heart disease, , coronary heart disease, , cholesterol, , fat, , protein, , vitamin, , vitamins, , nutritional supplements, , free radicals, , antioxi
- Reversing The Symptoms Of Heart Disease For A Long Healthy Life
By: Jason Jantzi | - There are numerous diseases that affect the heart. Among the most common are coronary heart disease, heart failure, congenital heart disease, hypertension, heart valve problems, heart arrhythmias and heart infections. These all fall under the term "heart disease."
Heart disease occurs for a variety of reasons, including genetics, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, diabetes, clogged arteries and hypertension. Fortunately, there are a number of lifestyle behaviors you can adopt to help ...
Tags: symptoms of heart disease, causes of heart disease, reversing heart disease, heart disease prevention
- Nature's Statin - Vitamin C And Lysine!
By: Garey Simmons | - Did you know there were "other" theories of heart disease besides (lipid) cholesterol theory? If you were to ask anyone in our society, what is the main cause of heart disease? Invariably cholesterol would be one of the main answers you would hear. This shows what $60,000,000 a year can do from just one company's budget to promote one statin drug on television.
There is another theory. There are 2 unshared Nobel Prizes awarded and Linus Pauling has one of them. Yet, not one clin ...
Tags: Omega-3, Unified Theory of Heart Disease, Vitamin C, Lysine
- Steps For Reversing Heart Disease
By: David Cowley | - For many heart patients finding a way for reversing heart disease is a dream while for others it may be a goal, which they believe may someday be available. When many professionals talks about reversing heart diseases they may be referring to the possibility of halting, or at least slowing the progression of the disease. Many cardiologists state that reversing damage done to the heart is not within the scope of today's medicine and that many surgical techniques can repair damaged blood vessels ...
Tags: Heart disease, heart treatment, heart attack, heart valve disease
- Reversing Heart Disease
By: David Cowley | - For many heart patients finding a way for reversing heart disease is a dream while for others it may be a goal, which they believe may someday be available. When many professionals talks about reversing heart disease they may be referring to the possibility of halting, or at least slowing the progression of the disease. Many cardiologists state that reversing damage done to the heart is not within the scope of today’s medicine and that many surgical techniques can repair damaged blood ve ...
Tags: Heart Disease, heart treatment, heart attack, Heart Valve Disease, Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Reverse Cholesterol & Heart Disease
By: Juliet Cohen | - Heart disease, (Angina pectoris) is the result of myocardial ischemia caused by an imbalance between myocardial blood supply and oxygen demand. In most cases, the lack of blood supply is due to a narrowing of the coronary arteries as a result of arteriosclerosis. This pain is known as angina. It is more likely to occur during exertion (e.g. walking, climbing stairs) when the heart muscle needs more blood and oxygen as it works harder. Angina usually occurs during exertion, severe emotional stres ...
Tags: Circulation, blood pressure, cholesterol, erectile dysfunction, heart disease, prescriptions, drugs, pharmacy, medications, natural medicine, health, medical, hea
- Cure For Heart Disease
By: David Cowley | - Heart disease is perhaps the nation's most prevalent killer of men and women and it may be one of the most easily preventable diseases of the modern civilization in the 40 to 70 age group. Because of this, there is constant research being conducted to find a cure for heart disease. Although there is no official cure as of yet, a few procedures and treatments do show a great deal of promise.
Coronary Arteriosclerosis is the blockage and narrowing of the blood vessels and is commonly refe ...
Tags: Heart Disease, heart treatment, heart attack, Cure for Heart Disease
- How Much Do You Know About Heart Attack?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - We may hear about heart attack all the time. And most of us will probably know that it is a very serious medical condition that could end the life of the victim. But, how many of us really have a good understanding of this condition?
Heart attack results when a blood clot completely blocks a coronary artery supplying blood to the heart muscle. It will cause death of part of the heart muscle. It is found that the site of blood clot formation during a heart attack is usually a chole ...
Tags: heart disease, heart attack
- Are Women Spared From Heart Disease?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - People always have the impression that heart disease only affects men. Women are less likely to have heart disease. This is definitely a common misconception. Most women are not aware that heart disease is the leading killer of women in United States and many developed countries. But, the following unexpected incident experienced by a young lady may change your mind!
Being a non-smoker and very conscious of her eating habits, an active woman who has kickboxing classes twice a week ...
Tags: heart disease, heart attack
- Can Everybody Go For A Heart Scan Now?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Blocking of arteries in hearts can lead to heart disease. In the worst scenario, it may even cause fatal heart attack that could lead to death. Hence, when patient's heart shows some sorts of unhealthy signs, his or her doctor will usually recommend or ask the patient to go for a heart scan to see if the arteries are blocked before the doctor can decide what action to take on the patient.
In the past, patients who needed a heart scan would have to take a drug to slow down their he ...
Tags: heart disease, heart attack, heart scan, CT, ECG, beta-blocker
- Fiber Is Good To Prevent Heart Disease Too
By: Ng Peng Hock | - It is unarguable that fiber may provide many healthy benefits to our body, many of us have in fact tried to avoid as far as possible. Why is this so? We all know that, fiber has no flavor or color and it hides in many of the foods that we eat. People choose to stay away from it simply because it is not tasty to eat and rather hard to chew.
Fiber is good for our gut because it helps clear unwanted wastes from our body. It also helps maintain intestinal health, lower blood sugar and ...
Tags: heart disease, fiber, cholesterol
- Heart Disease, Risk Factors, And Treatments
By: William Walters | - William Walters
Heart-Condition-Guide
Thursday, 2:48 pm
Today we are going to talk about Heart Disease, Risk Factors, and Treatments.
Heart disease, is the number one killer of both men and women in the United States. Heart disease is a variety of conditions that affect the performance of the heart. The basics of heart disease, how heart disease is diagnosed, heart disease screening tests, heart disease risk factors, and heart disease prevention.
Tags: Everything You Must Know About Heart Disease, Reverse Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Prevent Heart Attack, And Heart Rate Monitors
- What Are Designer Eggs Related To Heart Disease?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - We all have heard about designer fashions, designer watches, or designer bags. But, have you heard about designer eggs?
When you shop around supermarkets, you will probably come across eggs tagged with labels such as Omega 3, Low Cholesterol, Organic Selenium, Beta-carotene, and more. They also cost very much more than the normal eggs. Perhaps that is why they are termed as designer eggs.
These Designer eggs are not new at all. They have been in the market ...
Tags: heart disease, designer eggs, luteins, triglyceride, cholesterol
- Does Heart Grow Older With Age?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Your age does not determine how young or old your heart really is. A heart of a 40-year-old person may have the vitality of a 30-year-old while a much younger person's heart could behave as one twice the chronological age of the person. Sound unbelievable?
So how can one determine one's heart's well being? One way is to find out the blood pressure and heart rate.
For adults in an urban society, the normal blood pressure is 130/80 and the heart rate is between 60 and ...
Tags: heart disease, healthy lifestyle, bad cholesterol, free radical
- Can Diet With Supplements And Exercise Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - It is believed by most people that adult-onset diabetes is irreversible. Once you become diabetic, medication seems to be the only way to help you manage the condition to prevent you from getting into more health complications, for example, becomes a possible candidate of heart disease.
However, some health professionals and experts do believe that a low-glycemic load diet, coupled with multivitamin, chromium and cinnamon, plus moderate amount of exercise usually can reverse this ...
Tags: heart disease, diabetes, diet, exercise, cinnamon, chromium
- Does Racing 42 Km Put A Heart At Risk?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - In 2005, 382,000 people completed a marathon in the United States, an increase of more than 80,000 since the year of 2000, according to marathonguide.com. Mathematically, the risk is very small: Runner dying from a heart attack during marathon is about 1 in 50,000.
But, does racing 42 km put a heart at risk?
Let's take a look of a new study published in the Nov 28, 2006's issue of Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association.
60 entrants ...
Tags: heart disease, heart attack, troponin, marathon
- What Healthy Diet Is All About?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Diet, as part of a healthy lifestyle, plays an important role in maintaining one's healthy body. It will help reduce chances of getting many health issues, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, etc that may ultimately lead to the risk of heart disease.
Saying is easier than done! For working adults, maintaining a balanced and healthy is even more difficult because most of the time they eat out. Limited time available for meal and tight work schedule frequent ...
Tags: heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, healthy diet
- How To Use Revised Bmi To Prevent Heart Disease?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - BMI stands for body mass index. It is a surrogate measure of the amount of fat in the body. It is widely used as a good indicator of body fat, and it is easy and convenient to use without incurring high costs.
Using sophisticated methods to measure body fat requires highly trained personnel and expensive equipment. Moreover, these methods are not suitable in most clinical or home situations.
To find out your BMI, you just need a weight scale, a measuring tape and a ...
Tags: BMI, heart disease, heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes
- A True Story Of A Young Man With A New Heart
By: Ng Peng Hock | - A 20-year-old young man, Richard (not his real name) considered he was given a very special present a new heart a new life, when he underwent a successful heart transplantation operation on New Year's Eve of the year of 2004.
When he was 16, he suffered his first heart attack when he felt his heart beating abnormally fast and his chest tighten in pain. 3 more heart attacks were triggered when he was sent to hospital. He was diagnosed with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and ven ...
Tags: heart disease, heart attack, idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, ventricular tachycardia
- Can I Travel With Heart Disease?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Can I travel if I have heart disease? This is a common question that people will ask, especially if they have intention to travel by air. According to doctors, people treated with heart conditions or have significant cardiac histories need not avoid travel. It can safely be done, provided few precautions are taken.
The very first thing you need to do is to have a comprehensive check-up. Do it early enough for your doctor to order any necessary investigations if required and to pre ...
Tags: heart disease, deep vein thrombosis
- The Danger Of Exercising Hard Without Consultation
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Exercise is a good habit that will bring us many health benefits. It plays an important role in the prevention of heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and many other diseases. However, it may also get one into trouble especially when he or she has not exercised for a long time.
Paul, a 69-year-old man, told his story about what happened to him after a jogging in that particular morning after he returned from an oversea trip.
He felt breathless, lighth ...
Tags: heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, exercise, heart attack
- What Is Sudden Cardiac Death?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - If you can still remember, three young high profile professional athletes: Reggie Lewis (basketball player), Darryl Kile (baseball pitcher), and Marc Vivien Foe (football player) all died of sudden cardiac death or sudden death due to a fatal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation.
Sudden cardiac death is sudden and unexpected with death occurring within minutes after collapse. It is more common to older folks with serious heart ailments although it sometimes does happen to ...
Tags: heart disease, sudden cardiac death, ventricular fibrillation, heart attack, cardiovascular disease
- What Is Your Understanding Of Metabolic Syndrome?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - People often talk about metabolic syndrome but how many of us really understand its meaning and importance?
When metabolic syndrome was revealed in the early 20th century, it was known that high blood pressure, diabetes, being overweight and having abnormal levels of lipids (fats) in the blood were associated with increased risk of heart disease. But, doctors and health experts and professionals slowly begin to realize that when a person had one of these disorders, he or she would ...
Tags: metabolic syndrome, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure
- Coronary Heart Disease In The Elderly
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity in the elderly. In western countries, it accounts for 80 85 percent of all cardiac deaths in older people.
When a person ages, his or her cardiovascular system will undergo some normal and expected changes. These can be age-associated changes in cardiac anatomy; age-associated changes in cardiovascular physiology; and age-associated changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
The ...
Tags: coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, smoking
- How To Get Your Life Back After Heart Disease Strikes?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Heart disease often destroys lives, particularly heart attack that can strike suddenly and without warning. It is estimated that half of all people who suffer a heart attack may die even without reaching hospital for treatment. People who survive from heart attacks are often disable both mentally and physically.
Being an essential program that helps such people rebuild their lives, cardiac rehabilitation can also assist people who have congestive heart failure, or who have undergo ...
Tags: heart disease, heart attack, heart failure, cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure
- How A Diabetic Manages His Disease
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Diabetes occurs when one's body cannot produce or use insulin efficiently causing sugar to build up in the bloodstream. Family history, obesity, lack of exercise, and unhealthy diet can cause one to develop such disease. If it is not managed properly, it may result in complications such as kidney failure, blindness, and neuropathy. Diabetics are also at a higher risk to develop heart disease.
A diabetic of age 55 who has been suffering from diabetes for more than 10 years finally ...
Tags: heart disease, obesity, diabetes, kidney failure, brisk walking, exercise
- You Can Be Old But Your Heart Must Be Young
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Heart health needs not deteriorate when you grow older. You must focus on the impact of heart disease and the risk factors in order to help prolong your heart's youth. We should be looking at someone being healthy for his or her age instead of looking at someone who is simply looking young for his or her age.
To do so, you have to measure the youth of your heart against yourself: whether at 70, you are still able to do the things that you did at 50, without breaking sweat.
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Tags: heart disease, diabetes, stress, high blood pressure, obesity, cholesterol, smoking, exercise
- Beware Of Kids That Have Signs Of Heart Disease!
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Under normal circumstances, we would think that only adults, especially elderly, will have narrowing and hardening of arteries. But, the findings of a study presented at the annual American Heart Association in Chicago last month (Nov 2006) will probably change our views.
A group of researchers in Canada, Finland, Australia, the United States, Norway, Italy, and Netherlands found that children with risk factors for heart disease, including high cholesterol and diabetes, are now sh ...
Tags: heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity
- Why Heart Fails?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Heart fails when the heart is unable to pump blood effectively. So, why does this happen? Now, let us look at the various causes of heart failure.
The major causes of heart failure, according to cardiologist, are coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, cardiomyopathy, and valvular heart disease.
Coronary artery disease is a major heart attack which often causes impaired functioning of the heart muscles. The heart becomes weaker, resulting in heart failure. In ...
Tags: heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, high blood pressure
- The Low-down On The Diagnosis And Therapy Of Coronary Heart Disease In Women
By: Ng Peng Hock | - It is not easy to diagnose CHD in women who develop chest pain more often than men. The chances for these chest pains to progress to heart attack are rare. In one study, half of the women undergoing coronary angiography did not have significant heart artery blockage. But, women with classical angina symptoms had a 71 percent probability of having diseased coronary arteries. Nearly 90 percent of women suffering from heart attack had chest pains as the initial clinical presentation. This is simila ...
Tags: heart attack, coronary heart disease, heart failure, diabetes
- Silent Heart Disease With Some Diabetics
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the body produces too little or ineffectively uses insulin, resulting in high levels of glucose in the blood. Diabetes has long been associated with heart disease. It is known that persons with diabetes are more likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD) because diabetes can cause irritation of the blood vessel walls, adversely affect cholesterol profile and raise blood pressure. The prevalence levels of developed countries like United States and Aus ...
Tags: coronary heart disease, myocardial ischemia, diabetes
- Blood Test To Predict Risk Of Heart Disease For Diabetics
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Diabetes has long been regarded as a risk factor of heart disease. The specific relationship between the two was unclear although diabetes is known to double the risk of heart disease. As a result, many people living with diabetes have to monitor their health for well-known risk factors for heart disease, such as obesity, cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Despite the fact that the role of blood sugar levels in managing their risk of developing cardiovascular disease remains as a big unknown ...
Tags: heart disease, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, peripheral vascular disease, cardiovascular disease
- Is Fruit Fiber Superior Than Vegetable Fiber For Heart?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - As we all know, fiber is good at lowering blood cholesterol, which will in turn reduce the risk of heart disease. Fiber can be found in most fruits and vegetables.
A study released in 2004, however, found that not all fiber is created equal, and not all may offer equal protection for heart disease. Only dietary fiber from cereals and fruits, but not vegetables, appeared to reduce the risk of heart disease.
The researchers pooled the results of 10 studies conducted i ...
Tags: heart disease, diebetes, blood cholesterol, fruits, vegetables
- Healthy Foods In Orange Can Prevent Heart Disease Too!
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Eating fruit and vegetables is undoubtedly one of the best and surest ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Fruit and vegetables in bright orange can in fact help to boost our immune system as they contain beta carotene and bioflavonoids, which are essential in reducing the risk of cancer and heart disease. They also help maintain good eyesight and glowing skin.
Carrots, oranges, peaches, and pumpkin are a few good representatives for fruit and vegetables in orange.
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Tags: heart disease, immune system, orange, carrot, pumpkin
- How To Prevent Heart Disease For Women After Menopause? Part Ii
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Following from my previous article, here are the 7 tips that can help women prevent heart disease after menopause:
Tip 1 Stop Smoking
Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of CHD in women. More than half of heart attacks in middle-aged women can be attributed to smoking. For smokers who are determined to quit, they can be referred to smoking cessation clinics by their doctor.
Tip 2 Reduce High Cholesterol
Dietary change a ...
Tags: heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, stress, healthy weight
- How To Prevent Heart Disease For Women After Menopause? Part I
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death for women in developed countries. For both men and women, CHD risk increases with age. It is known that the CHD risk is much lower for women than for men of comparable age. Women's risk, however, increases significantly and catches up with their male counterparts after menopause. This is because estrogen, the female sex hormone, has a protective effect on women's hearts. Unfortunately, the level of estrogen drops significantly after me ...
Tags: coronary heart disease, menopause, hypertension, stroke
- Do Not Overlook Stress That Can Raise Risk Of Heart Disease!
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Due to globalization, economic structure has changed and is very different from years ago. Royalty towards organizations are rare and likewise, security of jobs provided by organizations is scarce too. More and more people choose to become entrepreneurs or self-employed. Under such circumstances, people are constantly under stress irrespective of which categories they are in.
Do take note that a stressful life does seem to raise the odds of heart disease and stroke, according to a ...
Tags: stress, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, smoking, high blood pressure
- What Ginkgo Can Help To Prevent Heart Disease?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Being one of the oldest living tree species, ginkgo trees ranged throughout temperate regions of the world some 50 million years ago. Nevertheless, one species, Ginkgo biloba, native to southeast China, survived the millennia while all others went extinct. Ginkgo has become one of the well-researched herbs in the world.
Ginkgo seeds have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Its ability to treat circulatory disorders and enhancing memory has been suppo ...
Tags: heart disease, ginkgo, diabetes, ginkgo biloba extract
- What Barley Can Do For Your Heart?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - According to American Heart Association, at least 13 million Americans are diagnosed with coronary heart disease. Each year, nearly half a million lost their lives across the United States because of coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease is a global killer that can restrict blood flow and lead to chest pain and heart attacks. High total cholesterol levels and high levels of LDL (bad cholesterol) are often identified as the main causes that will increase one's risk for heart disease. Peo ...
Tags: heart disease, LDL, cholesterol, fiber, barley, type 2 diabetes
- Eat Fish To Stay Away From Heart Disease
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Eat more fish to help prevent heart disease. This is the advice we usually get from doctors or scientists because omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish oil, benefit the heart of healthy people, and those at high risk of or who have cardiovascular disease. It seems that fish oil for health is a non-controversial issue among all health experts, from traditional to alternative.
A very early study on fish oil conducted in 1989 on 2,033 men with heart disease were divided into 3 groups ea ...
Tags: heart disease, cardiovascular disease, fish, omega-3 fats
- Pcos And Infection Can Also Cause Heart Disease
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Heart disease can be caused by a number of risk factors, for example, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, unhealthy diet and habits, laziness, obesity as well as some uncontrollable factors like family history of heart disease. Nevertheless, there are at least two other risk factors, namely PCOS and infection, that could also trigger heart disease or even heart attack.
PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) is found to be a serious disorder that can eventually lead to ...
Tags: heart disease, infection, heart attack, diabetes, woman,
- Confessions Of A Former Heart Surgeon
By: Ng Peng Hock | - FACT: 150 years ago heart disease was virtually unheard of. Today it is the #1 cause of death in America. It kills nearly 30% of us. In fact, it kills more women than all forms of cancer, chronic lung disease, pneumonia, AIDS, diabetes and accidents combined.
You don't have to face this fate, if you let Dr Robert show you his proven ways to kiss heart disease goodbye.
His secrets to good heart health do not rely on prescription drugs and needless surgery -- which is ...
Tags: heart disease, natural cures, cholesterol, heart attack
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