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This Is What 7 Smoker vs. Non-Smoker Identical Twins Look Like After Years Of Lighting Up

Identical twins may be born with nearly identical DNA, but their choices throughout life – including diet, environmental toxicity, and the chemicals they are exposed to – can alter their genetic expression and influence the way they look. Because identical twins are an excellent study to determine the effects dietary and lifestyle choices may have […]

Is It Indigestion or A Heart Attack?

The holiday season can sometimes lead to unhealthy behaviors. We indulge at holiday buffets, enjoy an extra cocktail, skip our regular exercise and stress about everything that needs to be done. Perhaps that’s why there’s an increase in heart-related deaths during the holiday season. After analyzing 25 years of data and 53-million U.S. death certificates, researchers discovered the correlation, with heart-breaking numbers peaking on Christmas, the…

How to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the buildup of plaque within the heart’s arteries, which causes a decrease in blood flow. When a coronary artery becomes fully blocked and blood flow has stopped, a heart attack results. As you may know, heart attacks may permanently damage the heart muscle. Risk factors for CHD include: high LDL …

World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to …

9 Health Rules That Doctors Never Break

Top doctors share the best health tips and health advice they themselves follow to prevent skin cancer and breast cancer, reduce back pain, prevent stress and more.

14 Ways Cardiologists Keep Their Own Hearts Healthy

You've heard for years about the healthy habits that keep your ticker ticking: Watch your weight, eat a balanced diet, make sure to exercise, and stay away from cigarettes. But it's not always easy to play by these rules in real life, when stress and crazy schedules get in the way. That's why we went to some of the most overworked, overstressed people we know—cardiologists—to find out what they do personally to keep their hearts healthy and sneak good-for-you habits into their lives.

Is Your Cholesterol Healthy?

Healthy Living: New cholesterol guidelines

Recently, the American Heart Association updated it's guidelines to treat and prevent high cholesterol.<br>Most importantly, the AHA encourages people to working with their health care provider adding that it's the only sure way to know whether you need treatment for high cholesterol.<br>The new guidelines focus on lifestyle, including healthy eating and physical activity. When done together regularly, doctors say both are proven to lower LDL cholesterol.

What is the optimum healthy level of cholesterol?

Dear Dr. Roach: A 74-year-old woman has a total cholesterol of 123 and was told that low cholesterol like this greatly increases the risk of diabetes,

Is there more to a healthy-heart diet than cholesterol?

A high-fat diet is thought to increase the risk of a heart attack. But some say that the long-held dogma of ‘bad’ cholesterol might be flawed

Can Low Cholesterol Keep Your Brain Healthy?

Some studies show that high levels of cholesterol may be linked to Alzheimer's disease or other kinds of dementia.

What you need to know about maintaining healthy cholesterol levels

Diet tips to eat your way to healthier blood pressure, cholesterol

Some carefully chosen foods can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol and lower the risk factors for heart disease — the leading cause of death in the U.S.

Your Healthy Family: Many factors can lead to high cholesterol

A functional medicine approach to high cholesterol is about looking at and taking into consideration all the factors that could lead to someone having high cholesterol.

New guidelines on high cholesterol, same advice: Eat a heart-healthy diet

New guidelines on high cholesterol, same advice: Eat a heart-healthy diet

Are These “Healthy” Oils Good for Your Cholesterol?

If you want to prevent heart disease, a healthy cholesterol number is key for success. What you eat greatly impacts your cholesterol. Many of the recipes and dishes

9 Irrefutable Benefits of Cholesterol in the Diet

The benefits of cholesterol in the diet and the 9 critical body functions that don't work properly without it. Time to rethink those statins!

What Is Cholesterol?

People with high cholesterol have approximately twice the risk of heart disease than people with optimal levels – learn more about cholesterol.

New cholesterol guidelines are for everyone

Doctors have new guidelines for treating patients with high cholesterol.