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Articles about facts about heart disease (0-50 of 552)
- How To Effectively Eat For A Healthy Heart
By: Jenny Grahams | - Heart disease is one or the wests biggest killers but there are simple steps you can take to minimize your risk. By making the decision to eat for a healthy heart, you can eliminate many of the causes of heart disease as well as other health conditions.
There are three main health conditions that contribute to heart disease. These are high blood pressure, high levels of cholesterol and being overweight. Others include smoking and lack of exercise. By adopting a healthy eating regim ...
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- Help! I Need A Pacemaker!
By: Jo Ann LeQuang | - Every day around the world, people get the strange and often unexpected news that they may need to get a pacemaker. Most of them barely know what a pacemaker is the day the doctor springs the news—and it can be hard to find out what a pacemaker really is all about.
In some ways, a pacemaker is a lot like what you think it is. It is a small, roundish, metal device (about the size of a pocket watch) that is placed inside your upper chest along with one or more insulated wires th ...
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- Fat Has Become A National Obsession
By: Sherry Granader | - How much fat do you need per day? Do you know what the best source of fat is? Do you count your fat grams every single day? Is saturated fat bad for you? All of these issues surrounding fat have been debated for years and the debate is still going on.
Look at the endless selection of books and eating plans at your local bookstore. There is a plan and it is quite simple. Instead of eating white flour products like cakes, cookies, pies, muffins, breads and highly processed f ...
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- The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Facts About Fats
By: ashish1 | - Fats, The GoodThe Bad and Omega 3.
This has become a hot topic lately. There is so much talk of fats, the healthy fats, the bad fats, the trans fats. I have done some research on fats, trying to keep it simple for us. Here is some important information I have come up with. Omega 3 has become a favorite topic of mine. It has such amazing health improvement qualities. Remember, this is for your information only, and not meant as gospel nor is it meant for diagnostic purposes.
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- Know More About High Blood Pressure To Cure It The Right Way
By: Rickki Zimmer | - In todays busy world, high blood pressure has become a common health problem. And most of them are not aware that they have this. When this goes beyond control it causes lot of health problems. Now what is high blood pleasure? This is commonly known as hyper tension, the condition when the blood pressure goes high. When this goes beyond a level there are chances of having a stroke, heart disease. It may even lead to kidney failure. If a person is said to have a high blood pressure, th ...
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- Stop Smoking Cigarettes Before You Develop Heart Disease
By: Aydan Corkern | - The heart is the organ that has amazed doctors that have studied and found that its function does no more than a water pump would on your car. But the heart is no ordinary water pump and it functions are truly amazing. Blood is pumped throughout your body, as it does, it carries fresh oxygen to your lungs and nutrients to the tissues of the body. Blood also takes waste, such as carbon dioxide, away from your tissues. Without this process, we could not live. When you smoke cigarettes, it is damag ...
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- Resveratrol - Is It Really Good For Your Heart?
By: Gary Kidd | - Some of the companies who are offering products with Resveratrol are beginning to make claims that it is good for your heart and will over time rebuild cells. So, with the French living 25% longer than Americans, having less heart disease, is this really true?
Well, when we study the French, we see that their diet is very similar to that of Americans, high in fat and cholesterol. Research has in fact shown that Resveratrol can act as an anti inflammatory and help prevent fatty bui ...
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- Leave The Weight Behind
By: Mike Bond | - Obesity isn't your fault. You're trapped by a gene that piles the weight on you no matter what you try to do. You simply have to look at a slice of cake and another 5 pounds is slapped onto you. Your thin cousins can eat anything and everything they want without even putting on a pound.
As I'm sure you've experienced, to your distress, no-one understands your problem. Employers tend to look on you as lazy, sloppy, less competent, and less conscientious than the slimmer people on s ...
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- February: American Heart Month
By: Hillary Marshak | - How healthy is your heart? Do you know all the facts about heart disease? Well, now is the time to learn. Find out the biggest killer of women in America and how to change your diet so that you don't become a victim.
Since 1963, the president of the United States has declared February American Heart Month and what better reason than a presidential decree to start eating healthier? Heart-healthy foods are ones that lower your bad cholesterol and blood pressure, but are high in pro ...
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- The Role Of Vitamins And Minerals In Health And Wellness
By: John Tolmachoff | - Vitamins and minerals play an essential part of how our body functions and stays healthy. Vitamins work individually for certain purposes but function properly as a partnership with other vitamins and minerals in our body. They need other nutrients and substances within our body to process and function well to achieve their full potential.
Vitamins are organic compounds necessary for the body to function. The body uses vitamins as building blocks and they are necessary for variou ...
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- Why Is Smoking Dangerous
By: Wayne Cooper | - The labels on the cigarettes give you your first clue. Yep thats right! Smoking isn't safe. Years ago the bad effects of smoking were unknown. Those smoking for years did not know the dangers. Now that this information is available and known, and some may want to give up, it is understandable that those smoking for years may struggle in their efforts to quit smoking. What is hard to understand is why young people still smoke today even though we know the dangers and effects of smoking.
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- Basic Facts About Heart Disease
By: Saiera Hilton | - The sad truth today that people all around the globe and more especially in the United States have to face is that heart disease today has continued to remain among the topmost most dangerous killer diseases in the US, and it's not showing any signs of being brought under control despite conducting the most thorough research in finding means to prevent it from happening. Furthermore, when you consider heart disease in total, you will find that there are a number of things to worry about regardin ...
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- Facts About Cigarette Smoking And Tobacco.
By: John D. Stratis | - Clear evidence shows that smoking is the most preventable cause of early death, heart and lung disease and disability.
There are numerous noxious effects of cigarettes, and it gradually takes your body closer to the ailments. You become liable to cardiovascular disease, a variety of cancers, respiratory sickness's, adversel effects regarding pregnancy, gastrointestinal troubles and mouth and gum problems
The facts about smoking get more apparent every year. because ...
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- Up In Smoke: The Facts About Cigarettes
By: Samantha Gilmartin | - The word cigarette comes from the French and means small cigar. The earliest cigarette dates back to around the ninth century and took the form of reeds and smoking tubes.
Cigarettes, as we know them today, are full of tobacco which is processed from the fresh leaves of the Nicotiana plant. The process involves the plant being stripped of its leaves, these leaves being dried and cured before being shredded into small pieces. There are many varied ways of consuming tobacco, but sm ...
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- The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Facts About Fats.
By: Parveen | - Fats, The Good…The Bad and Omega 3.
This has become a hot topic lately. There is so much talk of fats, the healthy fats, the bad fats, the trans fats. I have done some research on fats, trying to keep it simple for us. Here is some important information I have come up with. Omega 3 has become a favorite topic of mine. It has such amazing health improvement qualities. Remember, this is for your information only, and not meant as gospel nor is it meant for diagnostic purposes.
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- 5 Leading Causes Of Heart Disease That You Need To Avoid
By: Cindy Heller | - There are many factors that can cause heart disease and this article gives top five leading causes of heart disease. It is very important for you to know so you can avoid them and reduce the risk of suffering from heart disease.
#1 High cholesterol
High cholesterol can be extremely dangerous, and particularly it can cause atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries, which sequentially can lead to blocked coronary arteries, marked by chest pain, or a heart attack ...
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- How To Prevent And Treat Heart Disease
By: Cindy Heller | - Heart disease is a general term for a number of different diseases, all of which influence the heart in some way. Heart disease is in fact considered as being the leading reason of death nowadays in the United States. Heart disease indeed possesses serious threat to many people. Therefore, it is important to understand the methods to prevent and treat heart disease.
Prevention methods
There is reason to be hopeful because according to experts, heart disease preventi ...
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- Why Should I Quit Smoking
By: Gilchrist Adam | - Even though quitting smoking is not easy, but it is not impossible. In order to achieve your goal of quitting, you need to know what you're up against, what your options are, and where to go for help. All of this can be found here.
Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?
The only answer as to why it is hard for people to quit smoking and stay quit is Nicotine.
Nicotine - Nicotine is a drug found naturally in tobacco. The drug is extremely addictive, j ...
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- Tired Of High Blood Pressure? Stop It!
By: Alex Olson | - If suspect that you or someone you love might have high blood pressure, you may be feeling anxious and nervous. It can be a serious condition, but with a little bit of basic knowledge about it, you can begin to feel more comfortable and make a clear decision as to what you would like to do about it.
When thinking about this condition, which is also called hypertension, it is important to know a little bit about blood pressure. Your heart pumps your blood through your body at power ...
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- How To Live With Heart Disease
By: Cindy Heller | - The agony of finding out that you may be suffering from some form of heart disease is usually traumatic. Your doctor has just received the laboratory test results for the battery of tests that you have completed during your recent checkup. From what the results indicate, if you do not stop eating all those fatty foods that you love so much, you are going to require bypass surgery very soon. Do not worry that your quality of life will get worse since there are modern treatment plans that get you ...
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- Flaxseeds - Best Source For Omega 3
By: Laura Ng | - Are essential fatty acids good for us?
We need essential fatty acids, namely the linoleic acid “LA” and the alpha-linoleic acid “ALA”since they are necessary for the formation of healthy cell membrans. They are vital in regulating the functions of our brain, organs and nervous system. If we lack either one, we encounter symptoms like impaired vision and learning, skin lesions, behavioural disorders (depression, Alzheimer's disease etc), reproductive failur ...
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- Facts And Faqs On The Mediterranean Diet
By: Robert William Locke. | - As I have been living in Italy for the last thirty years, I can vouch for the great qualities of the Mediterranean diet. It is well known that the incidence of heart disease is less in Mediterranean countries than in the USA. The same is true for cancer rates. There is a possibility that this diet may play a part in slowing Alzheimer's disease. It has been studied and researched all over the world.
The Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Greece and southern Italy have alway ...
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- Diet - Is Meat Really Good For Us? What Happens When We Eat Meat? Find Out..
By: Patrick Hamouy | - Meat
When we look at our diet and what is good and bad for us, it is always beneficial to look at the way our ancestors used to eat. What has been eaten for 100,000s of years has determined the ability of our body to digest certain food. It will take another few thousand years (at best) before our body is able to digest the junk food some people ingest nowadays.
Prior to the Second World War, meat was expensive and most people only ate it on special occasions or at ...
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- Special Tips To Cure High Blood Pressure
By: Alex Olson | - If suspect that you or someone you love might have high blood pressure, you may be feeling anxious and nervous. It can be a serious condition, but with a little bit of basic knowledge about it, you can begin to feel more comfortable and make a clear decision as to what you would like to do about it.
When thinking about this condition, which is also called hypertension, it is important to know a little bit about blood pressure. Your heart pumps your blood through your body at pow ...
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- The Link Between Heart Disease & Cholesterol - Fact Or Fallacy?
By: Craig Burton | - Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. One out of every two men and one out of every three women currently develop heart disease. The UK has one of the highest rates of death from heart disease in the world - one British adult dies from the disease every three minutes - and strokes are the country's third biggest killer, claiming 70,000 lives each year.
Heart disease is the common name given to a range of conditions, including:
Coronary artery disease ...
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- Brothers Ride Adult Stem Cell Express From Heart Failure To Health
By: Jon Bradshaw | - Faced with massive heart problems beyond conventional help American brothers John and Walter Homeier traveled to Bangkok to receive the very latest in adult stem cell therapy for the failing heart. Fourteen months later the older brother, John, is back doing what he used to do before his illness - playing golf, walking as far as he likes and working every day. Younger brother, Walter, just one month after his treatment is already doing well, reporting that his energy is improving day by day.
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- Does Flax Seed Contain More Omega 3 Than Salmon?
By: Alfred James | - Flaxseed Foods Of The Kings
During the eighth century, King Charlemagne passed laws requiring the consumption of flaxseed by his subjects to ensure their good health. Over more recent centuries, flaxseed use has grown across Europe, Africa and now to North America. In spite of all this history, flaxseed is still a mystery to many. It, along with soy, is just starting to gain in popularity in the world of nutrition. This is especially prevalent in Hollywood where everyone seems to be on f ...
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- Fish Oil: Possibly The Century's New Miracle Supplement
By: Sam Morovy | - Recent research in this century has shown that the world, especially Americans, should increase the amount of omega-3 fatty acids that they consume. However, where does one find these nutrients? Well, one of the best sources of the omega-3 fatty acid is, conveniently, fish oil. The omega-3 fatty acids that are contained within fish oil can be broken down into two subnutrients that predominant the omega-3s in fish oil: EPA and DHA. EPA stands for eicosapentaenoic acid while DHA stands for doco ...
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- Fight Your Risk Of Heart Disease - Take Your Fish Oil!
By: Sam Morovy | - It all started in about the late 1970's, several studies that investigated certain aspects of a population revealed that the Inuit people, a people whose diet consisted largely of fish, had a much lower incidence of heart attack.
For reasons that are not specifically known, fish oil, according to the author of one study titled From Inuit to implementation: omega-3 fatty acids come of age, seems to be able to stabilize myocardial membranes electrically, resulting in reduced sus ...
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- Discover Fish Oil's Powerful Ability To Fight Depression And Violence
By: Sam Morovy | - Among the various things that fish oil fights including Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, ADD, and heart disease, it has also been shown to be quite useful in fighting the neurological disorder known as depression.
One study, titled Omega-3 polyunsaturated essential fatty acid status as a predictor of future suicide risk, by M. Sublette and other authors tracked 33 depressed patients that were not on any medication at the time. They tracked the omega-3 fatty acid levels (sup ...
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- Fight Your Risk For Heart Disease - Take Your Fish Oil!
By: Kallore Gandhi | - It all started in about the late 1970's, several studies that investigated certain aspects of a population revealed that the Inuit people, a people whose diet consisted largely of fish, had a much lower incidence of heart attack.
For reasons that are not specifically known, fish oil, according to the author of one study titled "From Inuit to implementation: omega-3 fatty acids come of age," "seems to be able to stabilize myocardial membranes electrically, resulting in reduced su ...
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- Heart Disease Facts
By: Verlyn Ross | - The purpose of this article is to present heart disease facts that might help the reader in preventing heart disease in their life and in the lives of their loved ones.
Heart disease is a problem that affects a very significant number of people in industrialized countries. You can only prevent a case of heart disease from developing if you are informed about the illness, so in this article, we will be discussing some basic heart disease facts so that you will be better suited when ...
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- A Look At Angina
By: Verlyn Ross | - While this is one of the most common types of coronary artery disease, there are some facts that is critically important for you to know. That is the purpose of this article.
When it comes to coronary artery disease, the most widespread symptom is what is known as angina pectoris or simply angina. Angina is basically a pain in the chest. Everyone does not always describe angina in the same way. Some people refer to it as a feeling of heaviness or discomfort in the chest area whil ...
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- Omega-3 Is Truly A Wonder
By: Carol Stack | - The nutrition wonder of modern times Omega-3 fish oil is overwhelmingly supported by scientific proof to correct and prevent so many different health ailments that it is a no-brainer to include it as one of your daily supplements if not in your diet.
A partial list of health benefits would include:
Reduces the risk of coronary heart disease
Improves your memory
Improves some forms of arthritis
Helps people w ...
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- What Smoking Can Offer You?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - It is known that smoking is a risk factor of heart disease. But, do you really know what smoking can offer you? Perhaps the facts stated hereafter will give you some clues: every 8 seconds, someone dies from the use of tobacco; every cigarette smoked shortens at least 7 minutes of life on average, about the time taken to smoke it.
If smoking can cause such harmful effects to the body, why the youths are still picking up this deadly habit? Statistics shows that between 80,000 and 1 ...
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- The New Wine Diet: How Adding Wine To Your Meal Could Also Add Years To Your Life
By: Randy Gilbert | - You like to look and feel great -- and you love your glass of red wine at dinner -- but conventional diet gurus say you can't have both.
How can you rationalize keeping the wine when you want be healthy?
If you think that you have a tough decision to make, then think again, because most diet plans don't take into account all of the latest facts.
More and more studies are showing that although there are about 120 calories in a six-ounce glass of red ...
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- Plain Health Talk
By: illich | - I have to scare you first.
Your body is a living organism, every cell is alive. You do not feel the damage from lack of nutrition until the damage is almost uncontrollable. We as individuals don't think about our health as a priority because we are too busy with any number of things, going to school to get a better education, raising our children, finding the job that will improve our income, busy with visiting our friends and relatives etc. We shovel in the fast foods that are ea ...
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- 11 Things You Can Do To Lower Your Cholesterol Today
By: Lee Dobbins | - Unhealthy diet is the main culprit in having very high cholesterol counts. Most Americans have very unhealthy diets due to the increasing number of fast food chains available. Not only are the burgers oily the fries that you order comes in packs so huge, making dieting a huge problem and most of the time out of the question.
Unhealthy eating can put a risk on your health. One major and very popular problem connected with cholesterol is heart attacks. Cholesterol kills. It wi ...
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- 10 Tips To Drive Away Stress
By: Ng Peng Hock | - If you do have a healthy diet with moderate exercise, but you are constantly under stress, there is still a possibility that you will become a candidate of heart disease. But one may tell you this: in the present competitive world, how can you live without stress? In reality, you can never escape stress. When you are young, you need face one examination after another. After graduation, you will face competition from your peers when you apply for jobs. After you get your jobs, you will have to fi ...
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- Are You Stressed? Watch Your Cholesterol Level!
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Previous studies had revealed that stress is linked to increased heart rate and weakened immune systems. However, a recent research conducted by the University College of London has found that over the long term, stress may actually raise cholesterol blood levels for some people. This means the risk of heart disease may subsequently be increased.
The researchers cited three possible reasons why stress may raise cholesterol level:
1. Stress may encourage the body to ...
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- Facts And Insights Of Heart Disease In Women
By: Joann Cheong | - Many people, when they hear the term "heart disease", easily think that it's a man's disease. But, the truth of the matter is, heart disease affects women the way it affects men. It's not just a man's thing. In fact, such disease is considered throughout the world as the number one killer of women, contrary to the popular belief that breast cancer is the primary culprit.
Heart disease in women is but a common phenomenon. It was reported that women are four to six times more like ...
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- Canberries - Could This Simple Berry Help Protect Against Heart Disease And Cancer?
By: Keith Woolley | - In today's world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this article, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discussed.
When is the last time you ate cranberries? Was it with a turkey dinner? With all the research pointing to the amazing health benefits of this simple berry, shouldn't cranberries be more than a once a year side dish?
How Cranberries Are Pr ...
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- The Facts About Mesothelioma Cancer
By: Heather Colman | - What is Mesothelioma Cancer?
Mesothelioma cancer is an extremely rare cancer form that is only found in the mesothelium. This form of malignancy generally affects those people who have been exposed to a situation where asbestos is present, typically those who have worked in buildings where it was used as a fire retardant..
What happens when a person has Mesothelioma Cancer?
This type of cancer directly affects the mesothelium and causes abnormal cell ...
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