Is Marathon Training a Risk for Your Heart?
Marathon runners who are less fit or lack the proper training can impair their heart with the stress of long-distance running, new Canadian research, presented on October 25, shows. Good news is that injury to the cardiovascular muscles for most runners is temporary and reversible, says cardiologist Dr. Eric Larose, a professor of medicine at […]
Does Power of suggestion affect Heart Arteries?
Simply suggesting that a treatment will ease chest pain may not only dampen the pain, but directly alters heart arteries. Among 30 patients having a procedure to evaluate their chest pain, researchers found that those who were told they were being given an infusion of a pain-relieving drug did, on average, report a decrease in […]
How Raw Vegetables and fruits ‘counteract Heart Risk Genes’?
Eating a healthy amount of greens could have an effect on genes linked to heart disease, according to a new study” published in the journal PLoS Medicine. Five or more daily portions should be enough to counteract culprit versions of a gene on chromosome 9, thought to be possessed by a fifth of people of […]
Early Lifestyle Choices – Impact on Heart Health Later!
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age. A few adults can maintain ideal cardiovascular health factors as they age, said Kiang Liu, first author of the study. Many middle-aged adults develop unhealthy diets, gain weight and are not physically active. Such lifestyles, […]