Tagged: High blood pressure

A look at omega fatty acids

A look at omega fatty acids

DEBATE ABOUT omega fatty acids has increased over the last decade. While separating fact from myth can be frustrating, let’s attempt to do just that. What are omega fatty acids? Contrary to popular belief,...

Monitoring blood pressure for diabetes

Monitoring blood pressure for diabetes

How often should I have my blood pressure checked? Your blood pressure will be checked at least once a year at your annual review. If you have high blood pressure, you will probably have...

A link between the brain and the heart

A link between the brain and the heart

Have you noticed an older friend or relative feeling a little down lately? A link between the brain and the heart may shed some light on why the elderly suffer depression. Eighty-five-year-old Margaret Hawkins...

Healthy eating for diabetes

Healthy eating for diabetes

Myth “People with diabetes can’t eat sugar” Truth It’s impossible to avoid sugar altogether but sugar and sugar foods are converted into glucose faster than other foods so they can cause a sudden rise...

Connections between nutrition, genetics and disease

Connections between nutrition, genetics and disease

Do you think that nutrition needs to get more personalized? It certainly needs to get more personalized for specific diseases like heart disease and like osteoporosis. Specific diseases that we know have a nutritional...

Long-term Complications of Diabetes

Long-term Complications of Diabetes

I’ve just been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. What sort of health problems might I develop in the long term? You are at increased risk of two main sets of complications: those affecting your...

Type 2 diabetes and heart disease

Type 2 diabetes and heart disease

What is the link between Type 2 diabetes and heart disease? Type 2 diabetes is more than simply a raised blood glucose level. You are also likely to develop various problems related to your...

High Blood Pressure Prevention Q & A

High Blood Pressure Prevention Q & A

What three things could a person start doing today that would help prevent the development of high blood pressure? Probably the most important thing is to get salt out of the diet. I wondered...

Fruits and Veggies Lower Blood Pressure

Fruits and Veggies Lower Blood Pressure

Doctors may soon be writing patients prescriptions for five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, if British researchers have their way. In the first long-term study of its kind, researchers found people who...

Q and A on Common Pregnancy Complication

Q and A on Common Pregnancy Complication

What is preeclampsia? Preeclampsia is when a woman develops high blood pressure and starts having swelling and spotting in the urine. A lot of women are more familiar with the term toxemia, an older...

Understanding Diabetes

Understanding Diabetes

What is Type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes and used to be called “maturity onset” or “non-insulin-dependent” diabetes. When you have diabetes your body cannot use glucose...

High blood pressure (hypertension)

High blood pressure (hypertension)

High blood pressure causes strokes, heart attacks, aneurisms, kidney failure and may other diseases. In most cases the cause is unknown. While drug treatment is frequently required, doctors stress the benefits of a healthy...

Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an umbrella term used to describe any abnormal condition characterized by dysfunction of the heart and blood vessels (including arteries and veins). The most common cardiovascular diseases in the United...

Overweight and Obesity

Overweight and Obesity

According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLB), BMI is the common measurement used to determine weight status. Overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity are defined suing BMI as follows: • Overweight –...

Nattokinase and Blood Pressure

Nattokinase and Blood Pressure

Natto has been used as a traditional folk medicine in Japan to treat high blood pressure, and recent studies confirm this benefit. In 1995, researchers studied the effects of nattokinase on high blood pressure...

Hypertension

Hypertension

, is often called a silent killer, because the condition usually has no symptoms. If left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to heart disease and stroke. That’s worrisome, considering that one in three...

Vitamin C and Common cold

Vitamin C and Common cold

Many claims have been made about the role of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in regard to the prevention and treatment of the common cold. Since 1970, there have been over twenty double-blind studies designed...