Metabolically Borderline: What It Means and What You Should Do
When your blood work straddles the line between normal and elevated for cholesterol, blood sugar, or blood pressure, you may be diagnosed as metabolically borderline. Here’s what it means and how you...
View Article5 Blood Pressure Risk Factors You Can Modify
Often, high blood pressure is a byproduct of an unhealthy lifestyle or other modifiable factors. Here are five blood pressure risk factors that you can modify with some guidance from your doctor. An...
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The Best Eating Plans for Mind and Body
A new study suggests that the MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) diet may benefit brain health as you age. In the 12-year study (Alzheimer’s & Dementia, April),...
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2. Dietary Patterns for Life
The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) is now being updated to align the recommendations with the latest nutrition science. But it’s a good bet that, whatever else changes, the emphasis...
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The Keys to Controlling Hypertension: Medication Choice and Lifestyle
Many patients with hypertension (high blood pressure) are prescribed medication to get their blood pressure under control. There are several types of blood pressure drugs that work in various ways, so...
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2. Smart Choices
As you get older and begin to worry more about protecting your brain against cognitive decline with aging, it’s important to recognize that the dietary needs of older adults are different than those of...
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9. In the Kitchen
One of the most powerful things you can do for your health is to spend time in the kitchen producing healthful, superfood-rich meals. It’s much more difficult to fill your day with health-protective...
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2. Patterns for Protection
We know more about what makes up a heart-healthy dietary pattern than we do about “brain food,” although research on nutrition and cognition is making important progress. The word “pattern” deserves...
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8. Best Dietary Strategies
Fortunately, you can make great changes in your brain health with improvements in your diet and lifestyle. Just adding a walking routine and increasing your consumption of fruits and vegetables can be...
View ArticleBlueberries Linked to Healthy Aging, Vitamin A May Reduce Skin Cancer Risk,...
Blueberries Linked to Healthy Aging. Regular consumption of blueberries may contribute to healthy aging with cardiovascular and cognitive benefits, according to researchers in a collection of studies....
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7. Looking Ahead
Coronary artery disease is responsible for the deaths of 370,000 Americans annually. Fortunately, exciting advancements have entered the scene to help diagnose, treat, and prevent CAD. One factor in...
View ArticleMSG Side Effects and How to Avoid Them
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a brain stimulant that was originally extracted from seaweed in 1908. Most commonly associated with restaurant Chinese food, it is used pervasively as a flavor enhancer in...
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3 Know Your Risk
As you learn how your heart and blood vessels function, what blood pressure is, and the various forms of hypertension, you then need to recognize the factors that elevate your blood pressure and, most...
View ArticleNews Briefs: Increase Fruit, Vegetable Consumption, Reduce Risk of Kidney...
Increase Fruit, Vegetable Consumption by Gardening Growing fruits and vegetables can help increase your consumption of these healthy foods, according to research in the Journal of Nutrition Education...
View ArticleShortcomings of the Average American Diet
The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans sanctioned a healthy U.S.-style diet, but more common is an unhealthy eating pattern characterized by oversized portions and too much sugar, “bad” fat,...
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Top 5 Food Cravings: What Are They and What Do They Mean?
Hi, my name is Shandley and I’m a chipaholic. When I’m stressed, tired, anxious, lonely, or a little blue, I tend to self-soothe with (most of) a bag of salted, rippled Lays. There’s something about...
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8. Best Dietary Strategies
Fortunately, you can make great changes in your brain health with improvements in your diet and lifestyle. Just adding a walking routine and increasing your consumption of fruits and vegetables can be...
View ArticleBlueberries Linked to Healthy Aging, Vitamin A May Reduce Skin Cancer Risk,...
Blueberries Linked to Healthy Aging. Regular consumption of blueberries may contribute to healthy aging with cardiovascular and cognitive benefits, according to researchers in a collection of studies....
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7. Looking Ahead
Coronary artery disease is responsible for the deaths of 370,000 Americans annually. Fortunately, exciting advancements have entered the scene to help diagnose, treat, and prevent CAD. One factor in...
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A Mediterranean-Style Diet May Be The Best Metabolic Syndrome Diet
We are facing a pandemic of metabolic syndrome in the West, where more than a third of adults now has the condition and is in dire need of the undisputed first-line treatment: adherence to a metabolic...
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