Beetroot consumption can lower blood pressure by 5 points
Drinking Beetroot juice or eating beetroot can lower your blood pressure in just a few hours, whatever your age; and this is especially true...
Choline from eggs and fatty meat increase heart attack risks
Choline is essential for metabolism and membranes; however too much choline intake can be bad, and is linked to stroke, heart attacks, blood clots,...
Environmental toxins link to cardiovascular disease, heart problems and stroke risk.
Environmental toxins are increasingly indicated as factors that increase the risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), strokes and heart attack, along with contributing to other...
The highs and lows of blood pressure
You may understand that high blood pressure can increase risk of heart attacks and strokes but do you realise a low blood pressure can...
How a high fat diet damages your health
Eating a high fat diet causes a chain reaction in the gut, starting with the cells of the gut wall causing metabolic regulation of...
Eating red and processed meats increases heart disease risk
Consumption of bacon, ham and sausages, and lamb, beef and pork, has been shown in research to increase the risk of heart disease, while...
Can statins stimulate atherosclerosis and heart failure?
Statins reduce heart attack and stroke risk and seem to do this by reducing LDL levels, arterial plaque levels and inflammation. They have little...
Eating fish wards off existing heart problems
In people with existing cardiovascular issues and heart problems, eating just two helpings of fish per week reduces the risk of heart attack or...
High blood pressure at night linked to dementia
'Reverse dipping' is where your blood pressure abnormally rises while you sleep; it has been linked to a 60% increase in the risk of...
Adopting a Mediterranean Diet significantly reduces death rate from strokes and...
One in eight deaths from heart disease and strokes would be avoided if we all ate a Mediterranean Diet full of whole grains, nuts...
McMaster develop pill to reduce heart attacks and strokes
In a multi-country study, a ‘Polypill’, containing a statin, blood thinner and other compounds, when given to people of medium heart attack/stroke risk, reduced...
Bacteria link to cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis
Increasing evidence links an imbalance in the gut microbiome and the oral microbiome to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and strokes; one route...
