Posts Tagged ‘heart disease’

Does milk really do the body good?

This was the question asked on a recent broadcast of CBS This Morning.

The answer was a resounding NO. The story – aired on the heels of a study that tracked over 100,000 people for twenty years – revealed drinking 3 or more glasses of milk a day…

INCREASES risk of bone fracture, and…

…doubles the chance of early death!

But the experts got it wrong. Milk shouldn’t get a bad rap. Blame …

By: Daily Superfood Love

You’ve heard the hype – probably all your life. “Fat is bad for you.”

Over the last six decades, the war on fat has been waged using people as the battleground. It was stripped from your diet, replaced with “low-fat” options that were purported to be “healthier” for you, and demonized as the cause of high cholesterol, heart disease, and obesity.

Just about every media outlet, doctor, university, and health …

February is American Heart Month, offering us a great opportunity to take inventory of our own heart-health. Heart disease warrants our attention, because…[1]

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America. Heart disease is the leading cause of disability in America. More Americans die each year from heart disease than from all forms of cancer combined. Heart disease is very preventable.

As deadly and widespread as heart disease is, it really is quite avoidable. Click to Tweet.…

Lowering cholesterol is an overrated tactic in the fight against heart disease, in my opinion. Don’t get me started on statin drugs that doctors use to drive cholesterol numbers down. In fact, the Framingham Heart Study, the one that most doctors use to justify lowering cholesterol, showed the following statistic:

For each 1 mg/dl cholesterol falls, the death rate goes up by 11%, and cardiovascular deaths go up by 14%.

But I know a lot of people are …

It all started earlier this year when German pharmaceutical company, Bayer, petitioned the FDA about changing the labeling on its aspirin in order to market aspirin as a means for preventing heart attacks in people who have not had cardiovascular disease.

It’s no wonder Bayer would like more of us using their drug on a daily basis since in 2013 alone, aspirin generated $1.27 billion in sales for Bayer.[1]

But the FDA took a long hard look …