Published January 23, 2009

How to protect your heart from a high-salt diet

If you eat a lot of salt, you can protect your heart without changing your diet. At least that’s what a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says.

In this study, researchers fed two groups of rats a diet loaded with salt. They split the rats into two groups. They gave one a placebo. And they gave the other a supplement containing grape powder. The grape powder had lots of grape-rich flavonols. You might be familiar with resveratrol. It is a key grape flavonol.

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Published January 22, 2009

Time to change — or die

You’ve heard a lot about change lately. We just started a New Year. We have a new president. And with both of these, we have a new attitude. Most people say they like change. But most doctors will tell you that people hate to change.

Let's say you have 10 people, and each person hears the same thing from his doctor: “You are going to die from this condition unless you change the way you live.” How many people would you think actually made the changes the doctor talked about? 80%? 60%? 20%? If you're like me, you will be surprised at the answer.

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Published January 21, 2009

Simple drink from your grocery store drops cholesterol by 9%

With the high-cholesterol “disease” mania infecting the world, you may have missed an amazing breakthrough that made news in recent weeks. I doubt you heard about it. But you should have, because this discovery shows how you can lower your cholesterol by 9% painlessly.

A new study found that black tea has plant chemicals that reduce inflammation and protect your cells. These are the same chemicals that protect the plant leaf from harmful rays of the sun. And they can protect your heart in several different ways.

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