Posts Tagged ‘heart disease’

High Cholesterol: Heart-Healthy Diet

High Cholesterol: Heart-Healthy Diet
Learn how to eat a heart-healthy diet and reduce your risk of heart disease.
By paying close attention to what you eat, you can reduce your chance of developing atherosclerosis, the blocked arteries that cause heart disease and stroke. If the artery-clogging process has already begun, you can slow the rate at which [...]

Heart Disease

Study Also Shows Health Risks of Being Underweight May Have Been Overstated
By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
Dec. 28, 2009 — The link between obesity and death from heart disease may be even worse than previously thought, but health problems associated with being underweight may have been exaggerated, a new study shows.
Previous studies have shown that [...]