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Heart Diseases Part IV - Heart Diseases-Heart Diseases Affecting Heart Muscles

As we mentioned in the previous articles, heart diseases are caused by high blood pressure that contributes to hardening of the arteries. High levels of bad cholesterol (LDL) building up in the arteri

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Heart Defibrillators Help Save Lives

A defibrillator is a medical device used to stop the heart in hope that heart will start again with rhythmic contraptions. It consists of a central unit and a set of two electrodes. The central unit p

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Invest in Good Health

Picture yourself at 65 or 70 years old. How do you see yourself? Do you envision a vibrant, energized elder person, or do you see someone in poor health that cannot walk up and down the stairs? I thin

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Healthy Chocolate and Heart Health

More Americans die each year from heart disease than any other cause, it is the number one killer disease in the US and parts of Europe. According to the American Heart Association, nearly 2,500 Ameri

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Effects of Obesity increase among children

Recent statistics shows that the number of girls using diabetes medicine has increased to the double in 2002 and 2005 in the United States. The main reason for this increase is obesity. It was announc

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You Only Have One Heart

Let's face it folks. We are not getting any younger anytime EVER! As important as it is to start saving for retirement, or live a comfortable retired life, it's just as important to be healthy to even

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Natural Gout Cure - Cure Gout, Lose Weight and Decrease Heart Disease

A few years ago, my friend Greg approached me about his arthritic problem of gout! He told me about his daily battle with the pain associated with gout! He also mentioned how going to bed (typically w

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How to Lower Cholesterol - What's on the Food Lable

If you are worried about getting high cholesterol or already have high cholesterol, you will be probably interested in food that is high in cholesterol and how it will affects you. You may want to kno

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Hard Habits To Break Lead To Heart Disease

What do lack of exercise, smoking, and a poor diet have in common? All three are not only hard habits to break, but they are considered to be risk factors for heart disease. Inactivity or lack of exer

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Heart Disease. Are You At Risk? Article 2

A healthy heart means enjoying a healthy lifestyle. There are a few simple things you can do to reduce the risk of developing problems like heart disease and enjoy a healthy lifestyle well into old ag

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High Blood Cholesterol Levels - A Serious Risk Factor of Heart Disease among...

Heart disease is considered to be the leading cause of death in most countries around the world. A major risk factor of coronary disease, cholesterol accounts for more and more victims among the Ameri

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Shop for Lower Cholesterol

Where and how you shop can have a huge impact on your cholesterol levels. If you do most of your shopping at the local supermarket, are you often tempted by the foods you see on sale in the aisles - f

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Co Q-10 is the Heart Health Supplement

Co Q-10 supplement has been used for years for treatment and support of congestive heart failure. This unique compound chiefly derived from rice has very efficient activity to strengthen and improve t

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5 Common Types of Heart Disease

There are many types of heart disease, but this article will explore five types of heart disease that are common to happen. Hopefully, this article can add your knowledge concerning this leading cause

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How To Stop Running To Your Doctor With Health Problems

Hey there, Have you been seeing your doctor a little too much lately? Headaches here, chest pains there厖?.shortness of breath, feeling weak, dizzy, and lethargic. A nasty virus going around? Not likel

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What You Need To Know About A Heartstart Home Defibrillator

More people are buying a HeartStart Home Defibrillator than ever before and it's not hard to know why. With over eighty percent of cardiac arrests happening at home and with treatment needed in the fi

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Lower Cholesterol Or Risk Death

Seemingly in excellent health, Beth goes to the doctor for her regular checkup. In the past year, she has lost weight, begun an exercise routine, and finally landed her dream job. Life is good! During

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Put an end to the cholesterol and the kilos in excess without medicine (Part IV)

Ten commands: 1. Make 3 meals per day, including one copious breakfast. 2. Consume without moderation all the fruit and vegetables. 3. Give up the pork-butchery, eggs, fat cheeses and butter. 4. Accep

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Do Heart Rate Monitors on Treadmills Really Work?

There are several kinds of heart rate monitor available on treadmills, but do they really work? You can find monitors that clip to your ear or finger, there are also hand heart rate monitors, and ther

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Heart Diseases Part Xviii - Dairy Products - Friend or Foe

As mentioned in the previous articles, we know that approximately 60 million Americans have heart disease. It is caused by uncontrolled diets high in saturated and trans fat resulting in arteries bein

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Natural health for the heart - pills are not the only answer...

Sometimes events in your life lead you down one way streets that you can find very difficult to escape from. Such is the case with my wife Jane. Some years ago, she was involved in a head on collision

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Heart Attack - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

Definition A heart attack is one of the dentures illnesses in all over the world. It occurs when part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies this happen because it isn't receiving oxygen. Each year, m

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How to Prevent and Treat Heart Disease

Heart disease is a general term for a number of different diseases, all of which influence the heart in some way. Heart disease is in fact considered as being the leading reason of death nowadays in t

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How Fats Damage or Destroy Your Arteries

Extensive research in experimental animals has been able to demonstrate how lipids (fat deposits) can leave the bloodstream and enter the artery wall within 24 hours. The atherosclerosis produced in t

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Heart Valve Disease

The heart is one of the strongest muscles and arguable it is the most important organ in the human body. It is responsible for getting nutrients and oxygen throughout the body by way of the circulato

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Prevention Of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)

It is indeed difficult to deal with this topic. Not much is known about the various causes, for operating on a pregnant woman, in the first three months of pregnancy, during which period, development

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Natural Treatments For Bad Circulation

How have people been able to survive illnesses for thousands of years without modern day medicine? Of course all of today's illnesses did not always exist but even so people have always gotten sick an

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What Is Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery?

While the old fashioned route to weight loss will include the use of strict diets and exercise there is another method which is available for people who are morbidly obese. This route is called weight

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Benefits Of Cardio Interval Training

The US Public Health Service has documented the risk factors of heart diseases based on a long-term study that examined the health history of various groups in the society. This study enables high-ris

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Heart Disease Guide - Part 3

Heart Disease in Women: Women and Heart Disease The risk of heart disease in women increases with age. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women over 40 years old, especially after menopaus

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A Delectable Way To A Healthy Heart

The word 'diet' has been closely associated with weight issues. Diet connotes reducing weight levels to normal. For others, being on a diet means being thin. But being thin is not parallel to being he

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How Nuts Can Lower Risk For Heart Disease

Several large studies have linked nuts to sink sympathy disease gamble and longer life. In the milestone Nurses' Health Study, for demand,women who ate the most nuts (about 5 oz per week) had half the

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Heart Attack Symptoms

Heart attacks are something that can be inherited from others in your family or you can create a world where you are eating and leading the lifestyle that is going to lead to a heart attach. No matter

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Never To Late for a Healthy Heart - Preventing Heart Disease

Heart disease, the disease of the 19th century and beyond, as some people say. Based on statistics, nearly 13 million people suffer from coronary heart disease in which an approximately 479,000 death

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How To Avoid A Heart Attack

Did you know that many people who have a heart attack, some of them fatal, never experienced any previous symptoms or warnings such as chest pain? According to The American Heart Association, coronary

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Don't Die Early - Look After Your Heart

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Think about that: more people die from heart disease than any other cause. In fact, over 27% of people, regardless of age or sex, die

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Reducing Salt Use Reduces Risk Of Heart Disease For Texans

Researchers from the American Dietetic Association report that reducing the amount of salt in your diet can lower your risk of developing heart disease by 25 percent, and the risk of dying from heart

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Straight From The Heart

Just like men, women are also prone to heart attack and other heart diseases. It should be known that based on studies, heart disease is the leading cause of death among women above 65 years old. They

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Insulin Resistance has a Major Effect on Heart Disease

Insulin resistance appears to have a major effect on heart disease. Work at Stanford Medical Center, the University of Buffalo Medical Center, and other medical research facilities have pointed to the

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Cholesterol-How Much Do You Know?

In your battle to contain cholesterol it would be prudent of you to at least seek information in doing it the natural way. The use of anything other than the natural way may put you at further risk. T

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Heart-Healthy Dietary Guidelines Tailored For You

According to an October 5th press release from the American Heart Association, new dietary recommendations for heart health are going to appear in the October 31st edition of Circulation, which can be

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You Are What You Eat

I recently read an article about how many whole foods have a pattern that resembles a body organ or physiological function. The similarities between the food and organ signal the benefit that food pro

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Bextra and other cox-2 inhibitors can cause serious problems

Also known under the name of valdecoxib, Bextra is used in the treatment of pain, swelling, and tenderness, caused by osteoarthritis and adult rheumatoid arthritis. This drug belongs to a class of non

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Signs Of Heart Disease

Not every indication of heart trouble is preceded by flashing lights and ringing bells, and the signs of heart disease can be somewhat subtle in their appearance. However, person who are at risk for h

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Causes Of Valvular Heart Disease

This article is written to remove some of the mystery regarding valvular heart disease. It is necessarily somewhat complex but it should be easier to understand than most medical information that you

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What Are The Causes And Effects of Congenital Heart Disease

Congenital heart disease is far more widespread than most people realize. The heart is the most significant organ of one's body; it ensures blood circulation all through the body, without which life w

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Heart Attack Facts - Recovering Your Sex Life

There is no reason a person who has had a heart attack, or been diagnosed with heart disease, cannot work towards resuming a normal sex life. Whilst there is a need for caution, as with any type of ex

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What Is Poor Circulation, PAD?

Did you know that the heart and circulatory system is one of the most important, and perhaps the least appreciated part of a person's body? The function of the circulatory system is to carry oxygen fi

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Lower Your Cholesterol With Just Four Foods

Latest statistics reveal an alarming fact. More and more younger people are taking drugs to lower their cholesterol. High cholestreol is blamed for heart disease, high blood pressure and strokes. Thes

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Herceptin linked to heart problems

Herceptin (trastuzumab) is remarkably effective in treating advanced (i.e., metastatic) breast cancer that is HER-2-positive (approximately 30 percent of cases). It has been shown to reduce the odds o

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