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2 Simple Principles That
Can Bring You A Heart-healthy Lifestyle
A heart-healthy lifestyle can be achieved by proper diet and
moderate exercise. Two simple principles show how this can be done. |
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8 Questions You Should
Ask Your Doctor About Your Heart
You must have many questions to ask
your doctors on how to maintain a healthy heart. This article
highlights eight most commonly asked questions and typical answers
from one of the many cardiologists. |
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8 Tips To Lower
Risks Of Heart Disease Starting From Young
Unhealthy foods and lifestyle have
brought overweight or obesity to many children around the world.
This will increase their chance of getting heart disease later on.
However, research showed that coronary heart disease can be
prevented from an early age... |
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9 Yummy Foods That Can Harm
Your Heart
Yummy foods are loved by people of all
ages who are probably aware that these foods may pose some threats
to their health. Here are 9 so called ‘junk foods' that are high in
calories but low in nutritional content; they do contain fats,
especially trans fats. |
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10 Tips To Drive Away
Stress
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? |
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A Long Hard Road To Weight
Loss Part I
When Janet recalled her journey of
weight losing, she could still feel the pain, malnourishment,
dehydration and vomiting that she had experienced. |
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A Long Hard Road To Weight
Loss Part II
Janet was not really afraid of dying
but she was concerned about her inability of taking care of her
grandmother who was diagnosed with dementia. |
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A Meal Without Salt Is Not
A Meal
A meal without salt is not a meal. Do
you agree with this proverb? |
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A Simple Way To Understand
Fats
"Don't take too much fats!" This is a
piece of advice we used to get from people around us. Are all fats
bad for us? Of course no! Nevertheless, before we can decide which
fats we should take and which fats we should not take, it is better
to understand the nature of fats and where they can be found in the
foods we consumed. |
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Are You Stressed? Watch
Your
Cholesterol Level!
Stress can lead to increased heart
rate and weakened immune systems, and it can even raise cholesterol
level. This is what recent research has found out. |
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Can Needles Really
Manage Your Weight?
Recently, a new way of weight loss
solution has become popular using needles. What is this? Another
sales gimmick? Not really! It is a technique used by TCM
(Traditional Chinese Medicine) practitioners known as "Acupuncture". |
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Can Risk Of
Diabetes Be Reduced By Drinking More Coffee?
Numerous studies were conducted on
effect of drinking coffee on heart disease, diabetes and other
disease but no definite conclusion has been arrived so far. |
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Can You Resist Eating
What You See?
If you eat too much fattening food one
day, can you be good and eat less the next day? The answer is
probably no for most people. |
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Chocolate Bar
Can
Make You And Your Heart Happy!
Is this some kind of joke? No, this is
true because a small study conducted in 2005 by University of
L'Aquila in Italy had found that dark chocolate (not milk chocolate)
may help reduce blood pressure and boost body's ability to
metabolize sugar from food. |
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Dieting Of Mothers Can
Harm Their Kids
As mother, your dieting habits can
have a bad influence on your children, especially when your dieting
is based on body image and not health. Some research indicates that
youngsters learn attitude about dieting through observation. This
means that some youngsters may develop an unhealthy fixation on body
image. |
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Do Not Overlook
Stress That Can Raise Risk Of Heart Disease!
A stressful life does seem to raise
the odds of heart disease and stroke. Interestingly, strong link was
found only among men. |
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Eat For A Healthy Heart! Fill
Up On Fiber!
Food that is bad for our body is
usually tasty and vice versa. But if you wish to have a healthy
heart, you probably have no choice but to follow some suggestions
made by doctors and dietitians.
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Fit Is Simply Not
Enough If You Are Fat!
Being fit but fat is simply not good
enough. Excess weight can take years off your life, even if you get
plenty of exercise. |
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Healthy Foods In Orange Can Prevent Heart Disease Too!
Fruit and vegetables in bright orange
can in fact help to boost our immune system as they contain beta
carotene and bioflavonoids, which are essential in reducing the risk
of cancer and heart disease. They also help maintain good eyesight
and glowing skin. |
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Healthy Foods In Purple Can Prevent
Heart Disease
Purple vegetables or fruit can add
color to a dish. They are beneficial to health as they are a good
source of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phyto-chemicals. |
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Is Eating
The Only Way To Gain Weight?
Heart disease could be developed as a
result of over-weight or obesity, which is usually due to unhealthy
diet, excessive eating, and lack of exercises. If I tell you that
inadequate sleep for a long period of time, you will actually gain
weight. Do you believe it? |
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Is Egg Really Bad For
Our Heart?
We are frequently advised by our
doctors that if you have high cholesterol level, you should avoid
taking any egg especially the egg yolk. So, most of us will equate
taking egg yolk to having heart disease because a high cholesterol
level will possibly raise the risk of heart disease. Such fear has
been instilled in our mind for the last thirty years. |
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Meditation Can Also Make
Your Heart Happy!
Drugs cannot effectively reduce stress
levels and should not be considered as the primary approach. A
happy, spiritual or emotional heart is basically good medicine.
Meditation is good for your heart. |
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PCOS And
Infection Can Also Cause Heart Disease
Heart disease can be caused by a
number of risk factors, for example, high blood cholesterol, high
blood pressure, diabetes, unhealthy diet and habits, laziness,
obesity as well as some uncontrollable factors like family history
of heart disease. Nevertheless, there are at least two other risk
factors, namely PCOS and infection, that could also trigger heart
disease or even heart attack. |
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Salt Is A Poison That Can
Lead To Heart Disease!
Salt is an essential part of our life.
We need salt to make our foods tasty. So why salt is a poison?
Please read on..... |
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Should You Drink
Coffee?
Is coffee really bad for our heart?
This is a question that coffee lovers keep asking their doctors
hoping to get an answer that can allow them to drink as much coffee
as possible. It is also an issue that is continuously subject to
debate over many years. Unfortunately, there is still no conclusive
evidence on the connection between coffee (caffeine) and heart
disease. |
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The Two-side Story Of Fish Oil
Fish is a high-protein low-fat food
containing omega-3 fatty acids that play an important role in
reducing the risk of heart disease. |
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Traditional
Therapies
Can Prevent Heart Disease Too!
It seems that these so called medicines (mainly from the West) could
not either treat the diseases effectively or have side effects that
have brought patients into another level of frustration. |
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What Can
Fizzy Drinks Contribute To Heart Disease?
Very few of us will consider these
drinks to be healthy. But, how bad they are? Why are they bad for
our health? Not too many of us can answer such questions. |
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Why Salt Is Good For You Now?
Sodium has always been accused as the
culprit responsible for high blood pressure. Recently, this “bad
gut” has become a star when research shows that it may reduce risk
of heart disease. |