| 03/31/2005 - Walnuts May Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease |
| Well, a recent study gave me some hope for my brother. You see, he loves walnuts. And it turns out that, like fish oil, 1.5 ounces of walnuts as part of a balanced diet every day can also reduce the risk of heart disease. |
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| 03/28/2005 - The Relationship Between Obesity, Depression and Diabetes |
| First, African-American women and Caucasian women were the only racial categories in which the overlap between depression and diabetes was statistically significant. |
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| 03/24/2005 - Reducing Your Risk for Stroke |
| We know a lot about what puts us at risk for a stroke. We discussed HRT the other day, but there's also high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, heavy alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity to consider when evaluating your risk. |
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| 03/21/2005 - Lifestyle Management Programs |
| A group of doctors took 2,390 ethnically diverse men and women and put them through a 12-week community-based lifestyle management program. |
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| 03/17/2005 - Stroke Risk Associated With Hormone Replacement Therapy |
| When the National Institute of Health shut down their long-term study, the Women's Health Initiative, because of the increased rates of cancer, stroke, and heart attack brought on by using hormone replacement therapy (HRT)... |
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| 03/14/2005 - Eliminate Antacid Intake by Eating More Fiber |
| I'm talking about eating more fiber, just like your grandmother always tried to tell you. Apparently it helps with more than just regularity and constipation. |
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| 03/10/2005 - The New Dietary Guidelines |
| When the government steps into just about anything, no matter how simple, it takes on a political sheen. The new dietary guidelines put out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services are no exception. |
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| 03/07/2005 - Surgically 'Removing' Migraine Pain |
| Researchers have theorized that migraine pain might be permanently alleviated by surgically removing "trigger points" -- that is, places where the pain is most intense for the sufferer. |
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| 03/04/2005 - Quality Control for Nutritional Supplements |
| Take the Institute of Medicine. Recently, they convened a panel that called for tougher quality control of nutritional supplements. |
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