Tag: heart health

Heart Disease, Half a Million Brits, and My Cat?

500,000 Brits were in a recent study to find the drink that is definitely linked to lower risk of death from heart disease. So what is this miracle drink, you ask? The better question for you to ask is, “can you believe the results”? A research team from the...

What’s Cholesterol Got to Do With It?

I love Gary Taubes … he’s awesome. I’m prepping for my Saturday radio program and ran across his op ed in the NYTimes (here’s the link), which reviews how “the cholesterol hypothesis” happened. Does the cholesterol idea (lower cholesterol = lower heart attack risk) even work? This article makes the point that the...

Is Butter Bad?

I’m on TV weekly, talking about a series of grocery store aisles and what is healthy/unhealthy about each. Today was “dairy”, and I spoke about milk, yogurt, and butter. It’s so interesting for butter, because I did an analysis of BUTTER CONSUMPTION as a function of HEART DISEASE DEATHS, to see...

RadioWill: Are we WRONG about salt and health?

The President of the Salt Institute will be speaking with me about new data suggesting that we were wrong, wrong, wrong in our advice to cut salt consumption. Click Here to listen live from noon-1:00pm EST … and call in with your thoughts and questions for this amazing guest: 412.333.1360We...

Squishy Data and The Best Exercise for Heart Health?

Is it cardio or resistance? Yoga or Pilates? Walking or Running?Paper or Plastic? Cash or Credit? Here or To Go?  This Study (bit.ly/on9sNn) from the American Journal of Cardiology  determined that you need a little of both … but the data are kind of squishy. See what you think. Here’s how they came to their...

Olive Oil Lovers Will Love This

Olive oil was Athena’s gift to Greece, according to legend, and the happy recipients of the largess d’godess took it straight to heart — literally.It turns out that those who use olive oil regularly are less likely to have your blood vessels pop open in your brain, making your...

What? Eating less salt DOESNT cut heart risks?

Every time you think you know something in nutrition … the rug gets pulled out from under you. Eggs, no eggs; margarine, no margarine; nuts, no nuts; and on and on. And now, this study insists that higher salt consumption doesn’t drive up your blood pressure! Even worse, the people...

This week … It’s all about your heart: Can Yoga Help? Study.

Yoga, already proven to lower high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, can cut in half the risk of a common and potentially dangerous irregular heartbeat, according to a U.S. study released on Saturday. The small study was the first to examine the benefits of yoga on atrial fibrillation —...

Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk of Heart Disease and Diabetes

Try the “blood type” theory or the “low carb” theory or the “eat every three hours” theory or the “food combining” theory … and hope hope hope that it will turn out to work! Good luck with that. Alternatively, you could just do what healthy people do. If you do...