Cardiovascular Disease

A lot of people may think that they need to completely change their life style to reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease, and theydon’t want to do that. If you have an unhealthy lifestyle, I would absolutely recommend that you make changes, but sometimes you can actually reduce your risk...

New research on the importance of vitamin D is published all the time. The reviewed study was quite large and was conducted in Denmark (Brondum-Jacobsen P, et al. 2012). The participants were 10,170 men and women, the vitamin D levels were measured, and the follow-up time was 29 years. The...

Eating low glycemic index foods is the key to keeping your blood sugar in a low and normal range. This is also important when it comes to reducing cardiovascular risk. The reviewed research compared two different types of food for efficiency when it came to these issues (Jenkins DJ, et...

A low carbohydrate, high protein diet has been promoted by many as a healthy way to eat and also a way to lose weight. Since this is a low glycemic index diet you can certainly lose weight eating that way, but is it healthy long term? This is exactly what...

This study is interesting because it provides information on how we can easily reduce the risk for a common problem like heart disease (Brondum-Jacobsen P, et al. 2012). 10,170 Danish men and women were tested for plasma 25-hydroxy vitamin D and followed for 29 years. Decreasing plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels...

If you watched the ABC evening news yesterday you would have seen a report they did on omega 3 fish oil and a study which they claimed showed no benefits of fish oil. They reported that this study, which was a meta analyses of several studies, did not show any...

Glutathione is a very effective antioxidant the body produces. Antioxidants protect tissue from free radical damage. Oxidized LDL (the bad cholesterol) initiates atherosclerosis and glutathione protects against lipid oxidation. The reviewed research investigated whether glutathione could reduce cardiovascular mortality (Buijsse B, et al. 2012). The study included participants who after...

Sometimes research provide information that is very easy to implement, but may provide significant health benefits. The research reviewed here is such a study (Kubota Y, et al. 2011). It included 23,119 men and 35,611 women aged 40 to 70 years without a history of cardiovascular disease or cancer. The...