Heart Health
When Bruce Springsteen sings, "Everybody's got a hungry heart," you know he's not warbling about the five basic food groups. But everybody does have a heart hungry for nutrition that will keep it healthy and functioning for a lifetime. Get straight to the heart of heart health with these diet, herb, supplement, and lifestyle tips.
FIVE THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY TO LOWER YOUR RISK FOR HEART DISEASE
1. Find out why you may need to eat more fat for a healthy heart. Learn about the connection between omega-3s and heart health.
2. Incorporate more beans, whole grain cereals, and red grapefruit into your diet.
3. Try one of these 30-minute workouts to strengthen your cardiovascular system. Learn more about fitness and heart health.
4. Learn about the connection between inflammation and heart disease.
5. Find out what meditation, yard work, and flossing your teeth have in common.
OMEGA-3S AND HEART HEALTH
Do you know your omega-3 index? New research suggests that this number—a measurement of the body’s levels of the most heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids—may be an important predictor of both heart disease and sudden cardiac death. Unfortunately, not enough people know their omega-3 index to make use of it. Read more about omega-3 intake and heart health and check out the news below.
Omega-3s 101
Omega-3 fatty acids Some fats are bad for your heart, but not omega-3s. These essential fatty acids keep cholesterol levels low, decrease blood pressure,...
A Better Bet: Fish Or Flax?
What’s the difference between fish and flaxseed oil?...
What is the difference between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids?
Omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids are members of the essential fatty acid family. Although both are necessary for good health, a proper balance is important...
HEART HEALTH ANSWERS
How can I manage cholesterol naturally?
Which supplements should I take?
WHAT IS HEART DISEASE?For the most part, heart disease is a product of atherosclerosis—a buildup of sticky plaque in the arteries due to excess cholesterol in the blood. While cholesterol serves some very important functions in the body, such as forming cell membranes and hormones, an overabundance of this compound can damage the lining of the arteries, allowing plaque to form there. Over time these buildups prevent adequate blood flow to the heart and brain, and when combined with other risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and smoking, the result is often heart attack or stroke. Read more |
HEART HEALTH IN THE NEWS
Latest Articles in 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...
