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Gene Millen is a 16 year heart bypass survivor who has discovered what really causes heart attacks, and how you can greatly reduce your risks of having one.
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- Brain Exercises Can Improve Memory and Just Might Stave Off Alzheimer's
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] What are brain exercises and how do they work? If you ask Doris, a 79-year-old former psychologist the answer may surprise you.
- Alzheimers and Exercise - Partners in Recovery?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Alzheimers and exercise go hand in hand in slowing, or even reversing this dreaded disease. A recent study gives all of us hope. Patients with early Alzheimer's disease who exercised regularly saw less deterioration in areas of the brain that control memory, according to a study released at the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease.
- A Brain Plasticity Miracle - Pedro Rewired His Brain After a Stroke
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] In his book, The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, M.D. relates the brain plasticity miracle of Pedro. At the age of sixty-five, Pedro Bach-y-Rita had suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed his face and half of his body. He was unable to talk or walk, and his sons Paul and George were told there was no hope for recovery," and that Pedro would have to go into an institution. This story has a remarkable ending.
- Are Symptoms of Dementia Or Alzheimer's in Your Future?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Do you sometimes wonder if symptoms of dementia are in your future? You need to make some deposits in your brain reserve account.
- Brain Games - Do They Improve Memory and Brain Functions?
[Self-Improvement:Memory-Training] What are "brain games" and how do they work? Brain fitness programs generally are available either online or as computer software. They are designed for persons who want to maintain or improve memory, attention and problem-solving ability. Most are interested in slowing or reversing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
- Is Your Brain Getting Better With Age?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Contrary to popular myth and also what some of my younger friends have opined, most of us don't lose a lot of brain cells as we get older. There isn't that much difference between a healthy 75-year old brain and a 25-year old one.
- A Brain Fitness Program - Could it Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer's?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Do you often misplace your car keys or forget a friend's name? Just maybe a brain fitness program could revitalize that aging memory. Occasional forgetfulness is often written off as a "normal part of just growing old," but new research indicates that Alzheimer's may be in your future.
- Lose Belly Fat With Low Glycemic Foods and 10 Minutes Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] One of the most frequent questions I receive from exercisers is, "How do I lose belly fat?" Is there a secret formula? Yes, but it won't be a secret for long. A low glycemic diet coupled with this proven ten minute fat burning exercise program will have you thinner and healthier in a matter of weeks.
- Cholesterol Numbers - Are Yours Too Low?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] The general public has been "brain washed" by the deluge of misinformation regarding cholesterol - and it's no wonder when you consider the multi-million dollar advertising budgets of the makers of Lipitor, Crestor and Vytorin. Cholesterol that is too low can cause health conditions that are rarely mentioned by health care practioners. Learn what the right cholesterol numbers are and how you can keep yours in the optimum range.
- This Aerobic Exercise Program Could Change Your Life
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Of the three key exercise variables... how often you exercise, how hard you work and how long you last, intensity has the most powerful effect. Your body responds to short bursts of intensity by releasing a cascade of fat-mobilizing hormones and anti-aging growth hormones that supercharge your metabolism and burn extra calories for 24 hours or longer.
- Low Glycemic Foods and Aerobic Exercise Win The Battle of the Bulge
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the most frequent questions from exercisers, as they affectionately caress their paunch is "How do I get rid of this?" The answer is low glycemic foods and the right aerobic exercise program.
- Is It Time To Make A Fresh Start
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] I seriously considered making some New Year's resolutions this year to help me mend my ways. Historians tell us this ritual has been going on for about 4,000 years, so it must work for a lot of folks or the practice would have died out by now.
According to those who keep track of such things, two of the most often made resolutions are to exercise more and eat less.
- Vytorin Side Effects - Are They Really Rare?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Merck Pharmaceuticals is running a very clever TV commercial, that suggests Vytorin side effects "are rare and minimal." There are some very good reasons to look upon this advertisement with a great deal of skeptcism.
- A Low Fat Diet May Be Setting You Up For A Heart Attack
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] New research shows that a low fat diet will lower the amount of HDL
cholesterol in your body.
I can almost hear you saying, "And your point is?"
In a nutshell HDL cholesterol is composed of large buoyant particles known,
as APO A1, which are "anti-atherogenic." This means that they act like guardian
angels to reverse heart disease by scooping up the plaque that could clog your
arteries and cause a heart attack or stroke.
- High Cholesterol Just Might Save Your Life
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] The standard cholesterol test ordered by physicians measures total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and HDL cholesterol. The LDLs are off handedly described as the "bad cholesterol"...but there is much more to the story.
- Got High Cholesterol? Eat More Eggs!
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] If you're worried about high cholesterol you should eat eggs sparingly, right?
Wrong! A new study recently conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut has come up with the eggciting news that eggs lower the risks of having a heart attack or stroke.
- Are You Taking Atenolol or Other Beta Blockers? You Should Be Aware of These Risks
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] If you are taking Atenolol or other beta blocker to lower your blood pressure you need to read this.
Nearly 2 million Britons have been advised that beta blocker side effects include increased risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes.
- Cardio Exercise and Weight Loss Go Together Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Your heart and exercise are best friends! The heart has an amazing ability to adapt to exercise. Most of us aren't athletes and don't have the time or inclination to spend hours in the gym. We just want to be healthier, have more energy and lose a few pounds. Finally a program that does just that... and it will only take about 10 minutes per day.
- A Heart Attack Isn't As Much Fun As You Might Think
[Health-and-Fitness] I've never had a heart attack... but I came a little too close for comfort. I remember it like it was yesterday although it was 15 years ago. It was a pleasant early fall morning as my wife Bernie and I embarked on the drive to Modesto for a "routine" treadmill test.
- Cardio Exercise - The Aging Advantage
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Has your fitness progress seemed about as swift as a bill crawling through congress? How about a proven cardio exercise program that shows great results in only ten to twelve minutes per day.
- Is It Aging or Lack of Exercise That Makes You Feel Old? You Be The Judge
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] He looked down and stared in horror at his withered painful leg. "My God, whose leg is that?" he cried. "It can't be my leg. That's an old leg." But it wasn't old. The other leg was just as old, and it looked fine. His right leg had deteriorated because it had been in a cast for several weeks due to an injury.
- Women and Exercise - And I Thought They Were The Weaker Sex
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] When most of us were growing up a strength-conditioning program for a "lady" was unheard of. There have been very few women "muscle builders" in recent years and most women are not at all interested in getting big muscles.
- Stretching For Strength
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] If you are interested in improving the efficiency of your strength training sessions, you may want to make stretching a bigger priority. A recent study by researcher and author, Wayne Wescott, Ph.D., shows that stretching after your workout not only increases flexibility but improves strength as well.
- Are You Balanced?
[Health-and-Fitness] Michael Jordan has it. Scott Hamilton has it. Shannon Miller has it. What is it? It is balance. Experts tell us that it is the single most important component of athletic ability because it underlies all movement.
- Lose Weight By Eating Ice Cream
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Hot new research reveals that ice cream, when eaten as part of a healthy diet, may actually melt away fat, helping you lose weight quicker than if you abstained! Plus a dish a day helps you get healthier in other ways according to Marsha Hudnall's book, THE ICE CREAM DIET.
- These Heart Exercise Principles Can Turn The Clock Back 30 Years
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Although we've been touting the benefits of heart health exercise for fifteen years, a study published in Circulation: The Journal of the American Heart Association stunned even us. The report's bottom line: six months of regular exercise can reverse 30 years of aerobic decline.
- Got Problems to Solve? Need More Brain Power? Try Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Creative people have known for years that a link exists between exercise and solving problems. Charles Dickens orchestrated many of his novels after his amble through the streets of London. Frank Lloyd Wright engineered landmark designs after his daily saunter.
- Lose Weight and Feel Full on Fewer Calories
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There's a common notion that people tend to eat the same number of calories from day to day. But that's not necessarily so, says Barbara Rolls, PhD. Many people eat the same weight of food from day to day. Therein lies the strategy behind her new weight loss book, "Volumetrics." If people consume the same volume of food they always do but with fewer calories than usual, they'll lose weight, without feeling hungry.
- Too Busy to Exercise? How About 10 Minutes?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Why don't we achieve our health and fitness goals? We are smart enough. We usually know what to do-but don't do what we know. We have good intentions but "busyness", procrastination and lack of discipline take control of our lives. You can do it! And Dr. Sears proven PACE exercise program changes the way your body burns fat... and in only about ten minutes per session.
- Cancer and Carbs - Is There A Relationship?
[Cancer] The National Brain Tumor Foundation in Oakland, California is so convinced by the studies linking carbohydrate and insulin to cancer growth they recently revised their dietary guidelines in a dramatic way.
- High Carb or Low Carb - All Carbohydrates Are Not Created Equal
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Would you like to lose weight, be more energetic and improve your heart health, or do you like yourself just the way you are? If the latter is true congratulations are in order, and you may want to skip this article.
- Heart Health and Weight Loss Come Quicker and Better Using These Exercise Principles
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] About 100 years ago, when I was on the high school track team, Coach Miller "encouraged" us to do "wind sprints". We would jog around the track for a while, suddenly break into a sprint for about 40 yards and then slow down to a walk as our lungs cried out "Please don't do that again."
- Exercise More and Eat Less - Why Is It So Difficult?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you on the road to Blobville or Heart Health City?
- Low Carb Diet vs. Low Fat Diet - The Truth About Fat and Cholesterol
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] How did the "dietary fat is bad" roller coaster get started? Investigative reporter Gary Taub in his insightful and through research report published in the New York Times Magazine explains what happened.
- The Atkins Low Carb Diet - Heart Attack City or Weight Loss Heaven?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the big stories in the weight loss world is the recent acceptance of the Atkins Diet by an increasing number of recognized researchers in the medical field.
- Carbohydrates - These Are Heart Healthy and Great for Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You just can't beat fiber for its heart health, weight loss, and energy producing qualities.
- Osteoporosis - Will a High Protein, Low Carb Diet Increase or Reduce Bone Density?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Ever since the 1970s, nutritionists have been arguing over the role of protein in maintaining bone health. Some claim a high-protein diet makes the body excrete more calcium, which in turn could weaken bones. Others assert just the opposite: That dietary protein is essential for maintaining strong bones. Who's right?
- Heart Attack Odds - Would You Like to Reduce Them by 300%?
[Health-and-Fitness] Although there are already mountains of research proving that exercise is good for heart health but researchers at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas have discovered a new one that could help you avoid a heart attack.
- Aging is An Attitude - How's Yours?
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] How we age is largely dependent upon our attitude and expectations. If we think and act young we will stay younger and enjoy life to a much greater extent.
- Is A Low Carb Diet Part Of Your Anti Aging Strategy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] "It ain't fun getting' old... but it beats the alternative." Surprising new research indicates that a low carb diet may help us live longer. Since some of my friends have been so rude as to suggest that I'm "older than dirt" I thought it would be a good idea to learn more about aging... especially how to slow it down.
- Cholesterol, Blood Pressure or Fitness - Which is More Important?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Got high cholesterol or high blood pressure? Would you like to lose a few pounds, improve your fitness level and reduce risks of a heart attack? This study will surprise you!
Dr. Blair found, as a group, fat men were more likely to get sick and die early than thinner ones. But the rest of the story may surprise you.
- Stoves, Pigs and Other Pot Bellies
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many people live in hope that there is a secret formula that will quickly melt away their potbelly but unfortunately spot reducing just doesn’t work. If you are interested in heart disease prevention you should realize that surplus abdominal fat increases risk of a heart attack. For every inch your waistline exceeds the size of your chest, you can deduct two years from your life.
- If I Were Any Better I'd Be Twins!
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] "Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and when someone would ask him how he was doing, He would reply, ‘If I were any better, I would be twins!’
Sometime later, I heard that Michael had fallen 60 feet from a communications tower.
- Taking Lipitor, Zocor or Crestor? Is Your Energy Lagging? You Need CoQ10!
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Has your "get up and go got up and went"? If so you will be interested in this latest research on CQ10.
"CoQ10, is energy on call," says, Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a board certified cardiologist at the New England Heart and Longevity Center. "I have long considered CoQ10 a wonder nutrient because of its ability to support heart health."
- Are You On A Bullet Train To Heart Attack City?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] For more than two decades we’ve had it drummed into our heads that high cholesterol causes heart attacks and of course the major cause of the high cholesterol has been the high saturated fat that most of us love so much.
If high cholesterol is the villain then why do half of all heart attacks happen to people with normal or low cholesterol—and two out of three occur without major artery blockages? Cholesterol has gotten a bum rap.
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