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What's on the Menu?
meals. Upon arriving at the restaurant, the menu features many choices, yet in your mind, you're seeing...."heart attack, stroke, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, autoimmune, and gout" for the main course. As you're desperately trying to...
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Alcohol consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis.
may be a lifestyle factor that increases the risk of atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is a major risk factor for stroke. This study evaluated how the intake of alcohol affects the risk of developing atrial fibrillation. Researchers looked at...
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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
1 focuses on how plant foods lower cholesterol, how they can prevent and reverse heart disease (including atherosclerosis, stroke, and heart attacks), how they lower blood pressure, and how foods from animal sources promote inflammation. Diseases of the...
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Win the War on Coffee Addiction
Coffee, Java, Espresso, Mocha, Frappuccino, Cafe Latte.... These names of coffee no doubt produce a pleasing aroma to many. Coffee's ability to enhance mood, physical activity, and mental performance makes it a widely consumed beverage. Many popular...
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted
data is clear. People who eat this way have fewer chronic diseases, from type 2 diabetes to heart disease, to obesity, to stroke. The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling...
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Soy food consumption is associated with lower risk of coronary heart disease in Chinese women.
on the soy food intake of more than 70,000 Chinese women between the ages of 40 to 70 years and with no previous history of stroke, cancer, diabetes, and coronary heart disease. The coronary heart disease relative risk of each subject was also...
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Statin Use Increases Cataract Risk
walk out with a statin drug. Having an avalanche of cholesterol floating in your blood increases your risk of developing stroke, diabetes , high blood pressure, skeletal muscle damage , coronary heart disease, and heart attacks. Statins...
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Red Meat Increases Mortality Risk
Probably you already know that dietary habits, such as habitual intake of red meat, can increase your risk of dying prematurely from cancer and cardiovascular disease. This is the finding of a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine . This...
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Meat consumption and mortality--results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
of 448,568 men and women within the age bracket of 35 and 69 years and who were without any previous history of cancer, stroke, and myocardial infarction. The research team found out that subjects who consistently consumed high amounts of red meat,...
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Plant-based diet associated with less heart failure risk
the diets of 15,569 heart disease-free subjects recruited from the Reasons for Geographical and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study and monitored the heart failure incidence rates in the study population. Researchers found out that a decline in...
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Normalize High Blood Pressure With Plant Foods
excellent cardiovascular health. High blood pressure also known as hypertension increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, both of which are the leading causes of death in the United States. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
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Vegetarian Diets Clean-Up Cholesterol Numbers
levels of cholesterol in the blood correlate strongly with higher chances of suffering from a heart attack, stroke, or other complications from coronary heart disease . Physicians often prescribe statins, a class of drugs used to lower blood levels of...
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Fruit and vegetable intake and mortality from ischaemic heart disease: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Heart study.
tracked dietary and mortality records of 313,074 men and women without any previous history of myocardial infarction and stroke recruited from 8 different European countries. The team of investigators discovered that regular consumption of 8 portions...
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Intake of vegetables rich in carotenoids and risk of coronary heart disease in men: The Physicians' Health Study.
the odds of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) in men. Researchers tracked the diets of 15,220 male subjects without stroke, cancer, and heart disease recruited from the Physician's Health Study for 12 years. The coronary heart disease odds ratio...
https://www.drcarney.com/science/disease-conditions/cardiovascular-disease/intake-of-vegetables-rich-in-carotenoids-and-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease-in-men-the-physicians-health-study -
Whole Grains Like Oats and Barley Reduce Cholesterol
important. Out of control cholesterol levels can lead to serious health problems , such as atherosclerosis , heart attack , stroke , and coronary artery disease . And in some cases, the damage cannot be undone....
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Intestinal microbial metabolism of phosphatidylcholine and cardiovascular risk.
microbes. Researchers discovered that increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction, and stroke), morbidity, and mortality was associated with high plasma and urine levels of TMAO. However, the administration of antibiotics,...
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Fruit and vegetable intake and risk of cardiovascular diseases: the women's health study.
of 39876 female health professionals with no previous record of cancer or cardiovascular diseases. The relative risks of stroke, non-fatal myocardial infarction, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft, and...
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A way to reverse CAD.
that 62% of the subjects who still maintained their usual omnivore diets suffered from adverse cardiac events, such as stroke and myocardial infarction. The result of this study shows that vegetarian diets may decrease the occurrence of cardiac events...
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Life Span or Health Span?
"Good news, America: We're living longer!" trumpeted USA Today . "Life expectancy in the USA rose in 2012 to 78.8 years — a record high," said the paper, quoting statistics from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And in a press...
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Can Weight Loss Increase Heart Attack Risk?
When we decide to "get healthy," losing weight is usually at the top of our "to do" list. And while exercise definitely helps, our eating habits usually need an overhaul if we plan to shed pounds. So the search is on for the "right" weight-loss plan....
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