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Fermented Foods Can Help Your Health

Cleveland HeartLab — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:19:00 +0000

You may have heard the buzz that fermented foods have benefits for your health. Fermented foods include things like yogurt, sauerkraut, and kimchi (a pickled vegetable dish from Korea) and beverages called kefir and kombucha. These products contain “good” bacteria called probiotics. Eating fermented products increases the good bacteria that naturally live in your intestines. This is called the gut ...

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NASH: The Health Risk You May Not Even Know You Have

Cleveland HeartLab — Sat, 15 May 2021 17:03:52 +0000

If you’ve put on weight over the last year, you are not alone. Eating more, moving less, and coping with pandemic stress have taken a toll on our bodies and health. Almost a third of Americans reported exercising less than before the COVID crisis hit, according to a poll from the University of Southern California. You probably know how bad ...

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Young women, heart attacks and how to prevent them

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:39:22 +0000

Here’s some good news about heart disease, the number one killer of Americans: the rate of heart attacks and strokes is dropping and has been for decades. That means you are less likely to develop these problems than in the past. But there’s bad news, too: heart attacks are striking more young people, particularly younger women. New research shows that ...

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Top Herbs for Your Heart

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 19:04:22 +0000

A healthy diet is the first step toward a healthier heart. Eating lots of vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, healthy fats like olive oil, and lean protein like fish and chicken, can’t be beat for preventing heart attacks and strokes. But how you prepare these foods also makes a big difference. A variety of herbs have been shown to give ...

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You Probably Don’t Get Enough of this Hidden Heart Helper

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:52:02 +0000

Heart-healthy diets include plenty of vegetables, fruits, beans, and whole grains like oatmeal, brown rice, and whole-grain bread and pasta. One thing these foods have in common is fiber. Fiber is good for your body in many ways and especially good for your heart. The results of a large review study just released by the World Health Organization (WHO) are ...

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Late Night Eating and Your Heart

Cleveland Heartlab — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 23:38:26 +0000

The rich foods and sweet treats of the holidays can make it hard to keep a heart-healthy diet. But one small change in your eating habits could help: eating the day’s larger meals in the middle of the day. You probably know that what you eat and how much you eat is very important to your heart and your health. ...

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The Wonderful Ways Dark Chocolate Helps Your Heart

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:33:46 +0000

Exercise. Eat healthy. Stay slim. Lower your stress. This “to-do” list is great for a healthy heart, but it may not sound like fun. Thank goodness, there’s chocolate! Hundreds of studies have found that chocolate—specifically, dark chocolate— keeps the heart and blood vessels in good shape. Here are some of the ways this delicious treat helps the heart: It may ...

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The Diet That Lowers Your Cholesterol Naturally

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:23:11 +0000

You’ve probably heard of the heart-healthy Mediterranean Diet. And you may have heard of the DASH Diet, which is designed to lower blood pressure. But you may not have heard of the Portfolio Diet. All three eating patterns are based on plant foods and help the heart. But if lowering cholesterol is very important to you, the Portfolio Diet deserves ...

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POTUS’s Teachable Moment

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:00:48 +0000

What the President’s Physical Exam Results Can Teach Us About Heart Health While cardiologists have debated the finer points of the President of the United State’s recent health report, his yearly check-up is raising awareness of heart disease risk indicators that can help gauge risk over time. Among the more common risk factors, the President’s body mass index (BMI), 29.9, ...

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Detecting Hidden Heart Disease Before it Harms

Cleveland Heartlab — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:24:34 +0000

People who are slim, don’t smoke, and don’t have diabetes usually don’t worry too much about their hearts. Those with good control of their blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose levels, even less so. But an alarming new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology may soon change that calculus. Researchers from Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos ...

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