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A lot has been said, and written, about Omega-3 fatty oils and the benefits for the heart. However, the never ending questions are: what is better for my heart, fish or fish oil capsules? Can I replace fish with fish oil capsules? Well, here is the answer. Omega-3 fats consumption is ...
A few days ago I was with my sister in Madrid, Spain, doing window shopping (nowadays, with the fall of the dollar against the euro, it is difficult to do any other kind of shopping in Europe). After wandering for a while, we took a break and went to a cafeteria. I ordered a bottle of water and ...
Although many people all over the world are proclaiming the health benefits of following an Authentic Mediterranean Plan to prevent heart attacks, there is still some confusion about what this diet consists of. And that is in part because at times, different dietary plans are presented to us ...
Perhaps the most difficult change you will have to make in a diet for diabetes type 2 is avoiding white and wheat flour products such as bread and cereals. Brown bread may look like a healthy choice, but not all brown breads are whole grain. Most “whole wheat” (brown) bread produced in the United States is highly processed and made with enough brown flour to make it look brown. The Glycemic index and glycemic load conceptsr Before taking a look at some of the breads available in the market let us review what the terms glycemic index and glycemic load mean.
Introductio Chinese food appeals to many of us because it is tasty and relatively inexpensive. We are also under the impression that Chinese cuisine is healthy as it includes large portions of vegetables and low amounts of fat. That’s true when the dishes are prepared the traditional Chinese ...
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, reducing sodium intake has a limited effect in lowering high blood pressure and a minimal effect on people with normal blood pressure. However, recent research in the United States is finding out that a moderate sodium intake combined ...
The internal alarm of your body, known as the inflammation response, when confronted with a wound, it responds in a healing way: forming blood clots to avoid bleeding or raising body temperature to destroy bacteria infiltrated through the wound. However, there is another type of inflammation, known as chronic inflammation that stimulates disease and as a result of it, the healing blood clots can end up triggering a heart attack or stroke. Causes of inflammationr
Making sure your cholesterol levels are normal is very important. That is because cholesterol can lead to blood clots that interfere with regular blood flow in your arteries and in the blood vessels of your brain. But if you are diabetic, keeping an eye on your cholesterol levels is even more important because as you know, high levels of glucose in the blood damage the walls of the arteries, causing cholesterol to stick to them and to form plaque. Why keeping en eye on your cholesterol levels is important?r
Here is a question I receive in my nutrition classes quite often: Is peanut butter healthy? Well, the answer is, “not quite”. Peanut butter is considered an inflammatory food because of its ratio between Omega 6 and Omega 3 fats. And as you probably know, chronic inflammation is the root for many health problems. There are three kinds of dietary fats in the food we eat: 1. Saturated fats. These fats are found mainly in animal foods and tropical oils. They are not considered healthy.
During my childhood and teenager years I ate fruits and vegetables because my mother told me I had to eat them. After I left my parents’ house, I kept eating various fruits and vegetables on a regular basis because I was used to do it (not a bad reason in this particular case). However, when I ...
One reason why our body suffers so much inflammation nowadays is due to an excess of compounds created by too many fats and oils that have an excess of Omega 6 fatty acids. Because vegetable oils may be high in Omega 6s, do you need a substitute for vegetable oil when cooking?
Although understanding the working of cholesterol can be a hard task, a diet for cholesterol doesn’t have to be. Actually, if there is something clear in all this cholesterol business is that what you eat can have a tremendous effect on LDL cholesterol, the “bad guy”. Your diet can modify LDL in such a way that it becomes less damaging to your blood vessels. Your diet is a powerful weaponr
You probably know by experience that standing in front of rows of cereal boxes trying to choose the healthiest one can be a daunting task. You may also have heard or read that people who eat a healthy cereal for breakfast consume more calcium, more fiber and less fat and that it can normalize blood glucose, a very important factor for everyone, but especially for diabetics. So, how can you tell what a healthy cereal is? Well, by looking at four ingredients: whole grains, sugar, sodium (salt) and fat. Let us look at them. A healthy cereal has to be a whole grain cerealrnr
Although it has calories, alcohol is neither a carbohydrate, a protein, nor a fat. What is it then? Well, the body considers alcohol a poison that needs to be broken down, detoxified, and removed from your blood as soon as quickly as possible to prevent it from damaging cells and organs. In addition, it can also cause hypoglycemic symptoms. The route of alcohol in your bodyr
Your heart’s function is to continuously pump blood so all your body cells receive the nutrition needed to maintain life. The good news is that as the heart ages, the changes it goes through are not very great and its capacity to send blood to all your cells is not diminished when you are at rest. However, there are other age changes your heart may not cope with too well. How the heart adaptsr Though aging causes several changes in the heart, these changes are not serious enough to cause an alteration of the amount of blood pumped per minute (cardiac output, or CO) when we are at rest.
According to U.S. General Surgeon, heart attacks and strokes are highly preventable. Thus, if more people die from heart disease than from any other illness, we need to give a serious consideration to what we are doing wrong. In this article you will find the 7 main reasons why we may end up ...
Health experts know that the way blood flows in our blood vessels and its thickness affects the formation of blood clots and whether or not we suffer a heart attack or a stroke. They also know that diet can have a major effect on how the blood flows and how it coagulates which means dangeous blood clots can be prevented. What are blood clots?r
Introductio Despite supplement advertisements that claim otherwise, vitamins do not provide the body with fuel for energy. Only carbohydrate, fat and protein are used for fuel. But because B vitamins help the body use that fuel, it is true that without B vitamins the body would lack ...
Since immemorial times, celery has been used to lower high blood pressure, with Hippocrates prescribing the vegetable as a tonic for those suffering from nervous tension. Unfortunately, the medicinal properties of celery had been ignored for many years in favor of pharmaceutical high blood pressure drugs. The good news is that Western research has been able to prove scientifically what our ancestors knew from experience when Dr. William Elliott, from Pritzker Medical School of Chicago, isolated a drug in celery that is very effective in lowering blood pressure. The celery researchr
For centuries, legumes or dry beans, as they are commonly known, have been a staple food in the Mediterranean countries where they have played an important part in the fight against heart disease. Why? Because…nn- Legumes contain essential minerals and vitamins such as iron, magnesium, ...
The holidays are gone and you are left with plenty of wonderful memories: time spent with your family and friends, sharing presents with your loved ones, lots of parties, and as part of all those gatherings, why not, memories of mouthwatering meals and desserts such as cakes, tarts, pies, ...
The French paradox In studies conducted in 1992, it was observed that in southern France, mortality rates from heart disease were lower than expected despite the consumption of diets high in saturated fat. Researchers attributed the impressive low incidence of heart disease, 50 percent lower ...
Oranges have been from time immemorial a staple food in the Mediterranean countries. They have also been a major player in protecting the people of that region from heart disease. Thus, if you never thought of oranges as a ¡§must¡¨ food for your heart, here are some good reasons to start doing ...
Part I It is not a mystery, and researchers do not have to rack their brains to figure out the whys and wherefores of the high Type II Diabetes incidence that plagues us nowadays as the reason is quite obvious: our lifestyle. In general, our diets, our levels of activity (none in many cases) ...
If you follow the pyramid of food guide to the dot, you may end up with some health issues in your hands. Why? Because the main goal of the US pyramid is to indiscriminately reduce fat, the good and the bad, while encouraging abundant servings of grains. Unfortunately, study after study has shown that this is not the right path to follow.
A lowering cholesterol diet is not that difficult to follow. In fact, many regular foods sold at your local supermarket can reduce LDL cholesterol, the bad type, increase HDL, the good one, and prevent the oxidation of LDL, making it less harmful to the arteries. Let us see which foods are these and in which way they protect you. Scientific research on antioxidantsr
As you grow older, your risk of suffering an accident cerebrovascular increases. However, there is a lot of evidence that the foods you eat can make a difference on whether or not you suffer a stroke. Those foods can also make a difference on whether or not the accident is fatal. What causes a cerebral vascular accident? Blood clots stuck in the blood vessels in the head and in the brain cause about 80 percent of the cerebral vascular accidents among people in the United States. Blood vessels that burst in the brain cause the other 20 percent because they can cause an hemorrhage.
Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. In 70 years, it will beat 2,500 million times, and still it will have to keep working; in fact, it never stops. Since one of your priorities is to keep it going, you need to make sure it gets the right materials so it can work for ever. Well, maybe not for ever, but you definitely want it to work for a little longer. Magnesium benefits for the heartr Magnesium is a crucial mineral in your body since it facilitates the following functions: 1.It improves the delivery of oxygen to heart cells, making the heart stronger.
It is assumed that diabetics don’t produce enough insulin, but in type 2 diabetes, that might not be the case. In fact, many type 2 diabetics have high levels of this hormone in the blood mainly due to the cells resisting the efforts of insulin to usher glucose in, creating what is known as insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is one of the causes of hypertension, which may explain why blood pressure goes up soon after the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Arteries are flexible tubes that carry blood from the heart to every region of the body. They have special properties that ensure they perform this task effectively. However, as we age, several changes occur in these tubes, which lead to serious health conditions such as the formation of plaque in arteries. The question we need to ask ourselves is: Can we prevent some of these changes caused by age? The three layers of the arterial wallr
We have seen that cocoa is high in antioxidants and contains important minerals your body needs. But, at the same time, you may be thinking that even the best chocolates on earth have fat, the saturated kind which could raise your cholesterol. So, is it right to go ahead and indulge in chocolate, ignoring the fat in it? Well, let’s find out. Can chocolate raise your cholesterol level?r
Scientific studies have shown that for glucose to be metabolized properly, your body needs a small amount of chromium. A chromium deficiency can prevent your body from properly using glucose and responding to insulin. It can also lead to overweight, fatigue, excess thirst, increased appetite, and frequent urination among others. Thus, when you consider the best foods for diabetes, try to include in a regular basis foods high in chromium. How chromium worksr
Introductio Interest in the Mediterranean diet with its high content of Omega-3 fatty acids from fish has skyrocketed in recent years, after it has been observed that people living in regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea appeared to live longer and suffer less from cardiovascular disease. In ...
It is free; you can do it at any time and it doesn’t require being in top shape. In addition, walking improves high blood pressure, tones the muscles, has many cardiovascular benefits, and helps you get rid of some calories. What are you waiting for? According to experts, walking at least ...
Part II A road to avoid If patients with pre-diabetes lose between 5 and 7% of their weight and they exercise half an hour every day, five days a week, the risk for developing diabetes type 2 Mellitus can be lowered by 60 percent in 3 years. In Part I of these two articles I indicated that ...
For centuries, legumes or dry beans, have played an important part in the fight against heart disease in the Mediterranean countries. n nHere's why..n n- Legumes contain essential minerals and vitamins such as iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, zinc, potassium, folic acid, and some of the B-complex vitamins n n- They are low in fat and sodium, which make them an ideal food to keep high cholesterol and high blood pressure at bay. n n- Legumes are also high in soluble fib
The traditional Mediterranean diet, rich in tomatoes, tomato products, and other carotenoids has been associated with a lower incidence of chronic heart disease. Recent scientific studies have shown that people who eat tomatoes and tomato products regularly are less likely to suffer from heart attacks than those who don’t make tomatoes part of their diet. n nWhy?n nBecause tomatoes contain lycopene. Lycopene has been identified as the responsible substance for the antio
The abundant use of olives and extra virgin olive oil truly defines the traditional Mediterranean Diet. In fact it is the principal fat source and the culinary foundation for Mediterranean cuisine. nnWhy?nnFor centuries, olive oil has been a major player in the low incidence of heart disease among Mediterranean populations. Extensive research has shown that olive oil not only prevents damage to your arteries, but it also reverses high levels of cholesterol in your blood and l
The abundant use of olives and extra virgin olive oil truly defines the traditional Mediterranean Diet. In fact it is the principal fat source and the culinary foundation for Mediterranean cuisine. n nWhy?n nFor centuries, olive oil has been a major player in the low incidence of heart disease among Mediterranean populations. Extensive research has shown that olive oil not only prevents damage to your arteries, but it also reverses high levels of cholesterol in your blood and
When two of my best friends died at very young ages, I was crushed and bewildered by their unexpected losses. So, I delved into the reasons for their illnesses and subsequent deaths. Soon it became clear to me that modern medicine does not have all the answers and unless we take control of our bodies, we might not reach old age. n nThrough my extensive studies, Iâve discovered that people living in Mediterranean countries are healthier than Americans. They have almost half