Featured
Heart Disease
Are You Eating Too Much Cholesterol?
I was vegan for a short time in college, and was shocked when I had my cholesterol tested and found it was high. I wasn't even eating cholesterol! The thing is, your liver makes cholesterol and it's actually essential for your body to function normally.
Extreme Obesity As Bad As a Lifetime of Smoking
We typically think of smoking as the baddest of all bad habits, but a new study suggests that extreme obesity could be just as unhealthy. In fact, being extremely obese — that is, 100 or more pounds over your healthy weight — could take as many as 10 years off your life. These revelations come out of a new analysis based on studies of more than 900,000 people, mostly from the US and Western Europe, and will be published in an upcoming issue of The Lancet.
Heart Disease No Longer the World's Leading Killer?
Heart disease has been king of the killers for some time, but new research from the World Health Organization shows the disease will likely be dethroned by another leading killer during the next couple decades. Cancer is projected to increase by 1 percent each year, and the WHO expects that 27 million new cancer cases will be introduced to the world by 2030.
The emerging economies of China, Russia, and India are of particular concern because of the large population in those countries that smokes.
Tune In and Raise Your Awareness on Heart Disease
What is the number-one killer of women? Breast Cancer? Ovarian Cancer?
Another Reason You Should Be Eating Breakfast
If you've been skipping breakfast, despite all the health benefits it offers, here's yet another reason that you may want to get up ten minutes earlier to enjoy breakfast each morning.
New research has found that eating breakfast reduces your risk for heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and heart failure. Compared with having your first morsel of food later in the day, eating something in the morning creates smaller rises in blood sugar and insulin after all the meals you eat for the rest of that day.
Can You Be Both Overweight and Fit?
When it comes to heart problems, it has been assumed that it's OK to be a bit overweight as long as you exercise regularly. New research is challenging this notion and this new research shows that being active can decrease but not eliminate your risk of heart problems. A new study that followed 39,000 women over 11 years discovered that weight actually plays a significant role in heart health.
Doctors to Sports Fans: "Simmer Down This Sunday"
It turns out that when it comes to cardiac problems a major sporting event is right up there with financial stress, losing a loved one, and natural disasters. So if you're a big Giants or Patriots fan, or if you just tend to get all riled up in the heat of the game, researchers are warning us all to take it easy this Super Bowl Sunday, but especially those at risk for heart disease.
This comes after a new finding that suggests when serious sports fans are watching their team play in a big game, they face more than twice the risk of suffering a heart attack.
Join Diet Coke and Wear Red For Women's Heart Health
Did you wear your red today? If not, then our friends at Diet Coke thought you should know that today is National Wear Red Day. Every year on the first Friday in February, people all around the country wear red to raise awareness of women's heart disease.
Heart Disease Affecting Younger Women
If you think heart disease only happens to older folks, then think again.
Recent research has found that heart disease is affecting more younger women (ages 35-44) than ever thanks to the increasing rates of obesity, high blood pressure, and other harmful risk factors.
Keeping this scary statistic in mind, I think now would be a good time to remind you of some heart healthy foods that are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals — all of which have the power to keep your heart healthy while not breaking your diet.
Carrying a Few Extra Pounds May Not Be a Bad Thing
Well, this news has come in just in time. Now that candy-driven Halloween is over and we're preparing to gorge ourselves on Thanksgiving, a new study shows that being 25 pounds overweight doesn't appear to raise your risk of dying of cancer or heart disease. Having a little extra weight may help you to survive various illnesses such as emphysema, pneumonia and certain injuries.
More on FitSugar
Top Brands
Homebase
Jean Paul Gaultier
Sportmax