Conditions: Heart Health
CRP test | Inflammation and heart health
The next time you’re in for a physical, ask your doctor about the hs-CRP blood test. An increasing number of physicians, including Michael Bauerschmidt, MD, at Full Potential Health Care in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are administering this test to their patients to to assess heart-disease risk...
Tame inflammation | Heart health tips
Four simple inflammation-taming guidelines to maintain heart health. ...
Pu-erh tea and your health
Studies show pu-erh tea's health benefits may be richer than those provided by black, white, green, and oolong varieties of tea....
Quiz: Is stress harming your heart?
A big source of stress is how you handle it. Take our stress quiz...
Stress and your heart
Stress in life is inevitable. Try as we may, the average person can't eliminate it entirely after all, it's what makes us successful in so many of life's...
Soy protein may help you stay trim-and stave off heart disease
In a recent study conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at the University of Vermont, postmenopausal women who drank a shake containing soy protein and isoflavone versus a shake with equal amounts of casein, a milk protein without isoflavones, wound up with less abdominal fat. ...
Go with the flow
When a water pipe clogs in your house, every room can be affected. The same goes for the pipes in your body the veins, arteries, and capillaries that make up the vascular system...
Beans for better cholesterol levels
Half a cup of pinto beans does more than make a great burrito, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition...
Live it up
When it comes to heart health, how you live may make all the difference in how long you live. A plethora of studies links strong hearts to exercise, not...
Eat your heart healthy
Twenty years ago, doctors advised us to use margarine, eat pasta, and avoid chocolate; now we know that margarine hides dangerous fats, refined pasta...
Give your ticker a boost
What it does How to take it Precautions B-complex Vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and folic acid lower homocysteine levels. Too much homocysteine inhibits blood...
Try red grapefruit for heart health
If high cholesterol and triglycerides have you feeling sour, red grapefruit's antioxidant punch could help you lower cholesterol by 15 percent and triglycerides...
Anti-inflammatory vitamin D may boost heart health
Vitamin D isn't just good for your bones; it also may be good for the heart. In a recent study conducted by a team of German scientists, people suffering...
7 more heart helpers
What Why Dose Coenzyme Q-10 Prevents oxidation of LDL cholesterol. 50-300 mg/day Danshen Also known as red ginseng, red sage, or salvia root. May play...
Cholesterol counts
Move it!Numerous studies overwhelmingly support exercise to lower heart-disease risk. "My number-one recommendation to raise HDL cholesterol is to exercise...
