Salt doesn’t cause heart disease

You’ve probably heard that limiting your salt intake will keep your heart healthy. In fact, most doctors will tell their patients with high blood pressure to keep their salt intake low. But a new study says this was the wrong advice!

A well-publicized JAMA study reported that salt does not correlate with cardiac disease or survival. In fact, lower salt excretion correlated with higher heart disease. (A low excretion means low intake, since your body will eliminate all excess salt through your kidneys.)

The researchers found that salt does raise systolic blood pressure – but it’s a weak correlation.

Two ways to avoid adding pounds during the holidays

This is a great time of year. The holidays bring us close to family and friends. But there’s a down side. It’s almost impossible to avoid all the wonderful “treats” of the season. From cookies, cakes, and pies to breads and pastas, the temptations to overindulge in carbohydrates is ever-present. And overindulgence will almost always result in weight gain and, eventually, disease.

Next to eating processed food and sugar, the worst thing we can do to our diets is to eat too many carbohydrates. This is probably the most influential factor driving the disease rate these days. 

Superfruit fights diabetes, weight gain, and cholesterol as well as drugs

One of the most eaten fruits on the planet may treat your diabetes and lipid problems as effectively as drugs.


Researchers from Oklahoma State University conducted a study on mice to see if the mango can help treat diabetics. The researchers used the Tommy Atkins variety of mango since it is readily available in the U.S.