Heart Health

Fish oil for heart and overall health benefits have been the hot topic for quite some time, and for good reason. You’ve heard about it on the news, the web, and have probably even seen it headlined in some of your local newspapers. Almost everyone owns at least one bottle of these oil supplements. The oil comes from cold water fish such as Hoki, tuna, salmon, cod, and mackerel. Fortunately, it can be derived from these food sources and manifested into supplement form, making it easier to obtain the appropriate daily amount.

Doctors usually recommend fish oil for heart benefits for their cardiovascular patients. Even if you have never suffered a heart attack or have heart issues, you should still take this daily supplement. The heart is a muscle and it needs as much care and conditioning that it can get. One of the things that this oil can… Read More…

Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, and is an illness which concerns many men and women over the age of forty. Even if you maintain a healthy diet and exercise regularly, you can still benefit from additional, precautionary measures such as taking supplements.

One of the best supplements for heart health is Vitamin E. Vitamin E has been shown to lower the risk of heart disease by up to 40% over time, so long as it is taken consistently and regularly. Vitamin E should be taken while ingesting fat. Unlike many other vitamins which are water-soluble, vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin which means it can only be properly digested and utilized with fat in the body.

Also worth mentioning is that while vitamin E is wonderful for heart health, there is some truth to the old adage “too much of a good… Read More…

Last year at about this time the New England Journal of Medicine published an article entitled “Options for slowing the growth of health care costs”. In table 1 there are listed 12 options for cost savings, ranked from highest to lowest potential. The NEJM is one of the most influential and respected medical journals in the world. If you Google the lead author, James J. Mongan, M.D., you get 736 entries. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Partners HealthCare, the Medical Group Practice associated with Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Professor of Health Care Policy and Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. There is probably no more distinguished and respected doctor in the country. Yet not only did he not come up with any practical, doable solution to the Health Care Financial Crisis, he did not even correctly identify the real origins of the… Read More…

The U.S. government’s annual bill for healthcare spending – $3,925 per person – significantly exceeds that of all other nations. Despite this, our current health care system is increasingly failing both patients and medical practitioners. Of 13 nations, the U.S. is last for neonatal and infant mortality, last for years of potential life lost, 10th for age-adjusted mortality, 11th and 12th for female and male life expectancy respectively. Chronic degenerative diseases – heart disease, cancer, arthritis, obesity, etc. – are at epidemic levels and create the ideal long-term customers to grow the medical industry.

Looking for a culprit? Consider that pharmaceutical company profits are so large they outstrip every other American industry by far. Americans spend over $500 billion on drugs. The drug companies claim that they need large earnings ($124,835,595,000 in 1999, for example) to conduct their research, but just one of every five dollars the… Read More…

It’s amazing what the human body can do – especially when it comes to natural health care and self-healing. Complementary health treatments like massage therapy can be beneficial in achieving optimal health and wellbeing. Labor pain, for instance, can be alleviated through massage. Other common health issues like anxiety and back pain can be significantly reduced with massage therapy as well.

Additional natural health treatments like biofeedback, hypnosis, meditation and yoga are mind-body medicines that are proving to be helpful in a variety of health issues. For example, meditation has been shown to help relieve symptoms from common conditions and diseases like allergies, anxiety, cancer, chronic pain, high blood pressure, and even heart disease, among others.

Individuals who have cancer have discovered many benefits to natural health care treatments. More specifically, acupuncture, aromatherapy, hypnosis, massage, and Tai Chi all seem to have… Read More…