How Antioxidants Affect Your Health
Antioxidants are nutrient substances that protect your cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules produced when your body breaks down food, or by environmental exposure to toxins like tobacco smoke and radiation; antioxidants are thought to balance these unstable chemicals. Free radicals can damage cells, and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases. The American Dietetic Association explains it best: “In your body, the antioxidant process is similar to stopping an...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
4 Essential Lifestyle Changes that Can Help Prevent Diabetes, Heart Diseases & Dementia
Many common and sometimes fatal diseases are potentially avoidable. By making small but important changes in your diet and exercise routines, you can have a major impact on your health both now and in the future to prevent diabetes, heart disease and dementia. The following steps are recommended to help maintain the health of both your brain and your body. All of them will help you to avoid Metabolic Syndrome (MsX), which in turn reduces your risk of diabetes,...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
A Miracle Food to Protect Your Heart & Blood Vessels
High cholesterol contributes to 56% of heart attacks and is responsible for 4.4 million heart deaths a year. Recently, a study was performed on pigs that involved feeding trials in which the animals’ lipid levels were monitored after consuming a plant-based diet that incorporated blueberries. The results, published in the British Journal of Nutrition in July 2008, showed great benefit to the animal in terms of lowering the risk heart disease. The results have great application to humans as...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
How 'Bout Some Good Press for Cholesterol?
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Surprising new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest that children as young as eight should be started on cholesterol-lowering drugs. Not surprisingly, cholesterol has become one of the most popular topics of conversation in my office. Patients are worried about reaching that “magic number” on their lab test and are also concerned about the side effects of medications used to attain it. An abnormal cholesterol level is most often a symptom...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
What Causes Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer’s disease is a brain dysfunction. It is just one of several types of progressive memory loss that falls under the label of dementia. The occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease is increasing at a very rapid rate. Generalized memory loss, which is so commonly seen in older patients, was once considered a natural phenomenon of aging. But is Alzheimer’s a natural part of the aging process or is it related to lifelong adverse lifestyle issues that can be altered? Lifestyle...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
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