heart disease

During American Heart Month, NIH Offers Heart Healthy Advice

Posted on 02/27/2013 by Ian Cunningham | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Personal Health The following is a guest post by Chhanda Dutta, Ph.D., Chief, Clinical Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH and Janet M. de Jesus, M.S., R.D., Nutritionist, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH During February, American Heart Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) urges you to take action to keep your heart healthy. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in the United States. About 1 in 8 women aged 45-64 has heart disease, …

Mediterranean Diet Beats Low-Fat to Cut Heart Disease

Posted on 02/25/2013 by Candy Sagon | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthWhich diet would you rather follow to protect against heart disease and stroke — the Mediterranean diet, which stresses fish, nuts, olive oil, beans, fresh veggies and wine, or a low-fat diet, which basically makes you cranky and miserable? We all know the answer to this one, and now science backs us up. A major study in Spain of nearly 7,450 adults ages 55 to 80 who were at high risk for heart disease found that those who followed a …

Booze and Cancer: A Drink a Day Ups Your Risk

Posted on 02/20/2013 by Candy Sagon | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthIs a little daily alcohol good for you or bad for you? The heart experts say it’s good, but the cancer experts — and a major new study — disagree. The first analysis in 30 years to look at the link between cancer deaths and alcohol says even as little as a glass of wine a day is worrisome. Researchers with Boston University Medical Center and the National Cancer Institute found that alcohol is to blame for one in every …

Why Southern Food Is Bad for Your Brain

Posted on 02/11/2013 by Candy Sagon | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Food | Personal HealthThe South is called the Stroke Belt because its residents are more likely to have a stroke than are people in other parts of the country. And now University of Alabama researchers think they know why: It’s all that fried chicken, bacon, ham, pies and sweet tea. The researchers, who presented their results at the International Stroke Conference last week, found that those who ate typical Southern food six times a week had a 41 percent increased risk of stroke …

Aging Boomers Less Healthy Than Their Parents

Posted on 02/6/2013 by Candy Sagon | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthThe nation’s 78 million baby boomers may be living longer than their parents, but a new study finds that boomers have worse health than the previous generation. Researchers from the West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina wondered if those born between 1946 and 1964 were living longer only because of advances in medicine, not because they were really healthier than prior generations. To find out, the researchers compared the boomers’ and an earlier generations’ …

Does Going Vegetarian Cut Heart Attack Risk?

Posted on 02/4/2013 by Candy Sagon | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthA large, new British study of vegetarians in the U.K. found that a meatless, fishless diet cut the risk of being hospitalized or dying from heart disease by a third — news that got a lot of publicity in this country last week. The study tracked nearly 45,000 people living in England and Scotland, of which about a third indicated they were vegetarians and ate no meat or fish. After about 10 years of follow-up, researchers found that the vegetarians …