Taking the Sugar Out of Your Coffee

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Posted by Heather Aarons on May 16, 2012 at 4:46 pm

Can’t stand the taste of coffee without that extra packet of sugar or two? It actually may not be that bad without the added sweetness once you get accustomed to drinking it. Also, considering the added health benefits of cutting sugar out of your diet, you will likely find that it is entirely worth adjusting to the new taste.

Health experts and weight loss clinic Dallas specialist, for example, help patients reevaluate their diet in order to find the most effective and successful weight loss program for them. In my personal opinion, I believe that cutting back on sugar or entirely eliminating sugar from your diet can greatly increase your overall health.

Robert Lustig, a specialist on hormone disorders and childhood obesity at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, has conducted research on how our excessive consumption of sugar may be the primary reason for the soaring number of obese and diabetic patients. Lustig also goes as far as to link sugar as the likely dietary cause of serious health conditions common to the Western diet, including heart disease, hypertension, and cancer.

You could start with your taking the sugar out of your coffee and in a few weeks you may find that there is natural sweetness to the coffee and milk that you never tasted before. You may also begin to recognize when products have added sugar to them, as many processed foods generally have sugar or fructose syrup in the top five or even three ingredients.

Talk to weight management program Dallas experts to find out how you can begin making changes to your diet and lifestyle that will lead to a healthy and long-lasting weight loss.

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Multiple miscarriages can increase the risk of heart attacks in women

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Posted by Franco Cignelli on May 4, 2012 at 9:52 am

A study published in the journal Heart has found a strong correlation between multiple miscarriages and heart attacks.

The study analyzed data spanning 10 years involving more than 11,500 women. Researchers found that 25% of the woman had at least one miscarriage. But when looking at repeated miscarriages, the researchers found that women who had more than three spontaneous miscarriages had an increased risk of heart attack.

According to the data, each miscarriage increased a woman’s risk of heart attack by 40%. Women who had at least one stillbirth were about 3.5 times as likely to suffer a heart attack.

When the researchers adjusted the data for known factors of heart attack, such as smoking, weight, and alcohol consumption, there was still a higher risk for heart attack with repeated miscarriages. When factoring in this data, women with multiple miscarriages still had a risk of heart attack that was about five times greater than the average.

There are a number of lifestyle modifications that can reduce the risks of a heart attack, including weight loss, moderate exercise, a healthy diet including fruits and vegetables, all of which also helps in preventing miscarriages.

The need for further research on the gender-specific risk factors for heart disease, including those related to recurrent miscarriage, is needed.

However, the study presents something many people have found surprising, but have also suspected for quite some time: Miscarriages can affect the heart in more ways than one.

 

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Heart health is effective polycystic ovary syndrome treatment

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Posted by Franco Cignelli on April 26, 2012 at 8:38 am

polycystic ovary syndrome treatmentAlthough there is no cure, polycystic ovary syndrome treatment is rather simple.

To diagnose PCOS the doctor will ask about your medical history and perform a physical examination to check for weight gain, acne, extra body hair, darkened skin, or high blood pressure. During a pelvic exam, the doctor will feel for cysts on the ovaries.

In addition you’ll also have a number of blood tests to measure androgens, insulin, and other hormone levels. You may also have a vaginal ultrasound.

There are several ways to manage the symptoms. PCOS is a hormonal disorder linked to insulin resistance and obesity and is the leading cause of female infertility. The excess insulin levels associated with PCOS can stimulate the ovaries to secrete abnormally high levels of testosterone. This male hormone may prevent the ovaries from releasing an egg each month, thus causing infertility.

If you’re overweight, your doctor may suggest some lifestyle changes to reduce your risk of developing several health conditions associated with PCOS. Losing weight through a heart-healthy diet and regular exercise can help bring your hormone levels back to normal and cause many of the symptoms to disappear or become less severe.

Weight loss can reduce your risk of heart disease by lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It can also reduce your risk of diabetes by decreasing blood sugar levels and regulating insulin levels. It can also stimulate ovulation and improve fertility rates.

Medications used to restore hormone balance include birth control pills that may reduce androgen levels, regulate your menstrual cycle, and clear up acne and excess facial hair. Medicines which lower androgens (antiandrogens) may also be used to further reduce symptoms such as hair loss and skin problems. However, antiandrogens and birth control pills should not be used if you plan to become pregnant.

If you’re insulin resistant, Metformin can also help reduce androgen levels and make ovulation normal. If your menstrual cycle becomes more regular, your fertility may also be restored. If you’re trying to get pregnant, you may also be counselled on infertility treatments.

But overall it’s important that people with PCOS focus on heart health, by maintaining a healthy diet, regular exercise and decreasing stress. This can be easily obtained and provides effective polycystic ovary syndrome treatment.

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How Stress Affects Our Health and Our Hearts

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Posted by Heather Aarons on April 19, 2012 at 12:51 pm

While it has been well-known that chronic stress affects our health on a day to day basis and that it can also raise the risk of heart disease, cold and flu, and allergies, how exactly it damages our health hasn’t been completely understood. New research is now suggesting that cortisol, a human hormone, may be at the root of the negative roll stress plays in our lives. If further research supporting this theory continues to accumulate doctors may begin to put more emphasis and focus in their wellness promoting patient care on healthy ways to deal with stress.

Cardiologists in Florida, for example, who are committed to educating their patients about their risk for heart disease, may need to highly focus on how stress affects people on a daily basis and ways to cope with it in order to help their patients prevent heart disease.

What researchers found was that cortisone, a hormone released when people are under stress, gives the body a boost of energy but at the same time it subdues the immune system that may be fighting infections such as the flu at that time and keeping blood flow and organ function in check. As a result the immune system will not be able to fully fight inflammation caused by infections and promote overall well-being. Sustained level of stress can even cause the body to become resistant to responding to inflammation. If our bodies are not able to fight inflammation due to constant high levels of stress we are more prone to becoming sick and patients that have heart problems may have an even higher risk for heart disease.

 

Cardiologists in Florida at the Cardiovascular Institute are leaders in providing patients with excellence in cardiovascular care.

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Faulty Defibrillators Raise Concern

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Posted by Amanda Rahi on April 9, 2012 at 10:26 am

Problems with defibrillator are beginning to trouble the heart device industry, and of course the patients that use them. After a series of cases of malfunction, there is some serious doubt about whether there are adequate and sufficient control and safety checks or if the Food and Drug Administration needs to impose stricter regulations. The purpose of a defibrillator is to monitor a patient’s heart rate and send out an electrical jolt when it detects a fatal heart rhythm in order to restore normal beating.

Working with faulty defibrillators would be against many health experts’ principals such as cardiologist in Detroit at Heart and Vascular Institute, for example, who are committed to placing the best interests of their patient first.

Major concerns and problems about defibrillators first arose in 2005 when Guidant sold a heart unit to Boston Scientific and Medtronic, two major competitors that have dealt with problems with their products where patients died or seriously injured.

Two devices, the Riata the Riata T, that both have resulted in more deaths than any other type of problem, were discontinued and replaced with a the Durata model, which is claimed to have an extra coating of insulation in order to prevent malfunction. However, according to officials, devices that are at risk of have malfunction have been implanted in over 128,000 patients worldwide.

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Losing Biodiversity: A Loss to Our Health and to Humanity

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Posted by Amanda Rahi on April 8, 2012 at 9:57 pm

While it seems that there has been more focus and concern placed on the environment, we still continue to underestimate the value of biodiversity. Most concerning, there are not strong attempts to slow the countless and irreversible actions that industries and individuals take every day which directly affect biodiversity. Although we often hear about crimes towards humanity and the need for criminal defense lawyer silver spring experts, for example, we don’t often hear about the death and extinction of species every day.  In order for that to happen, people need to be informed about exactly what they are losing.

The value of biodiversity in a broad sense that is not limited to monetary worth can be divided into two broad categories: direct and indirect use values. The direct use value of biodiversity to humans involves the exploitation of the natural products of biodiversity for marketable goods. Biodiversity fuels a number of important industries, such as pharmaceuticals, spring water and purification, and tourism.  Workers compensation lawyer Silver Spring specialists, however, may know that natural resources may not be the only thing exploited in the third world countries where these industries usually operate. Workers are usually taken advantage of as well.

Resources extracted from biodiversity directly relate to cardiology as ACE inhibitors used to treat high blood pressure or heart failure, is made from tropical snake venom.

A recent estimate of the value of global ecosystem services was calculated at $33 trillion. Needless to say, it’s time we start paying attention to what we are losing as we continue to exploit areas of high biodiversity such as the tropics in order to grow industry and the world economy.

 

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Is Alcohol Good for Your Heart?

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Posted by Amanda Rahi on April 4, 2012 at 11:30 am

Alcohol may help prevent heart attacks according to a new study. While it has long been assumed that moderate alcohol consumption can help fight heart disease, this new study reveals how an alcoholic drink a day can help strength a man’s health.  Despite scientific evidence it may still be hard to believe that it is a good idea to encourage certain patients to drink alcohol, even in moderation.

Preventive cardiology Aventura experts, for example, dedicated to promoting heart health among their patients, share various resources on heart health with their patients, including recommendations for the American Heart Association, who caution against excessive alcohol consumption.

To reach this new conclusion, the study researchers followed 1,818 men who survived heart attacks. Some participants were followed for to 20 years during which every two years participants completed reports on their health and the study controlled for smoking, body mass index, diabetes, hypertension, and aspirin use. What they found was that men who had one or two glasses or beer of wine every day, or one or two shots of liquor, were 34 percent less likely to die from cardiovascular disease.

Internal medicine Miami Beach professionals at Cardiovascular Longevity, who specializes in preventive care and heart health, work closely with patients in order to meet their personal and individual needs. The American Health Association currently warns that drinking more alcohol than the recommended amount can increase blood pressure, risk for stroke, obesity, and breast cancer and caution people from staring to drink alcohol if they do not already drink.

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Bone marrow may be used to repair heart

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Posted by Franco Cignelli on March 26, 2012 at 10:54 am

Stem Cell Therapy NYCA University of Florida study reports that a patient’s own bone marrow cells may be used to repair the heart and restore healthy blood flow after severe heart failure.

Stem cell therapy NYC experts, a leader in stem cell therapy treatments, promotes similar revolutionary techniques designed to improve health.

The University of Florida study’s early results pave the way for new clinical trials and, ultimately, new therapies that could help millions of patients.

The study of 92 adults is the largest of its kind in this group of patients. The work was conducted between 2009 and 2011.

Patients who had heart failure and/or chest pain, called angina pectoris, but were not eligible for standard surgical treatment to improve blood flow, were randomly selected to receive either stem cell treatment or a placebo.

In patients treated with stem cell therapy, the percentage of oxygen-rich blood being pumped out of the heart’s left ventricle with each heartbeat increased notably to under 3%. A normal percentage for blood pumped from the left ventricle is 55 to 70%. Patients enrolled had 45% or lower pumping volume when they started the study.

The improvement in blood flow was also linked to increased proportions of blood-forming bone marrow stem cells called CD34+ and CD133+. The results were more striking among patients who were younger than 62, compared with patients who were 62 or older.

This information will help researchers identify which patients are most likely to benefit from cell therapy based on the cell composition of a person’s bone marrow. The study will help patients with severe heart failure who have no other alternatives.

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Overweight Doctors Less Likely to Treat Obesity

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Posted by Amanda Rahi on March 19, 2012 at 6:56 pm

Doctors that are overweight are less likely to work through diet and exercise issues with patients compared to other physicians that are at a healthy weight, according to a recent study.

As obesity rates continue to rise in the United states as well as the associated health risks for diabetes and heart disease, we need to pay attention to why obesity levels continue to grow, despite our continued efforts to reduce them.

Dallas weight loss experts, for example, at Fast Weight Loss are on the forefront of fighting obesity with their specially designed medical programs for healthy and effective weight loss.

The researchers on this study surveyed a random sample of 498 general practitioners and internists about how they diagnosis and treatment overweight patients. About half of the participants were overweight. They found that doctors diagnosed patients with being overweight if the patient’s weight was higher than that of the doctors.

In fact, the results should that just 37 percent of overweight doctors felt confident in offering advice about eating and exercise, compared to other physicians that maintained a healthy weight. The study was published this month in the journal Obesity.

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Statins May Make Exercise More Difficult, Says Study

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Posted by Amanda Rahi on March 14, 2012 at 11:15 am

It has been well-known by health experts, physicians, and scientists that statins produce muscle aches and fatigue in patients. However, many patients that are prescribed statins are unaware that this medication produces more pronounced muscles aches and fatigue in people that exercise.

Cardiologists in Florida at the Cardiovascular Institute of Northwest Florida, leaders in providing comprehensive cardiovascular care for our patients, for example, work to inform and empower patients so that they are actively participate in their cardiovascular care. Making patients aware of the side effects of taking statins, a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed for preventing stroke and heart attack, which are relevant to their lifestyle.

The fact that statins produce this pronounced result in people that exercise has important implications for heart disease prevention strategies, which emphasis exercise and regular physical activity.

Scientists in Strasbourg, France in order to understand more about the effect of statins on exercising muscles conducted a study where they measured the effects of statins on exercising rats for two weeks. What they found was that the rats on statins could not run as far as the control group as they gave up much earlier.

Florida cardiologists  at the Cardiovascular Institute of Northwest Florida are leaders in the areas of non-invasive and invasive cardiology care. 

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