If you’re obese, and can drink over a half quart of juice a day, go for the Mangosteen! It contains some potent anti-inflammatory properties that could actually help prevent heart disease and diabetes even though you’re over-weight. ……

A new diet pill using a flavonoid found in grapefruit could be the next break-through hope for the over weight and obese patient. ……

Most of us want to know…what is it that causes belly fat, technically called, “visceral fat” to accumulate? Our biggest health care concern is that having a fat belly has been proven to be a significant risk factor for heart and cardiovascular disease. We’ve been taught that getting a fat belly for the most part only occurs in middle-aged women, after having gone through menopause. ……

Do you realize that our ankle can be the source of determining whether or not we have peripheral artery disease? Hard to believe, but true. ……

Want to protect your arteries? Eat broccoli. It’s one of the healthy superfoods that is packed with nutrition that works to protect our vascular system and thus helps to protect us from angina, and eventually a stroke or heart attack.

……

We have been told for years that eating eggs, which are rich in cholesterol, was bad for us. But … ……

Normally heart cells suffer damage after a heart attack. However, in a study in rats, it has been discovered that a naturally occurring protein, NGF, (nerve growth factor), can protect against heart cell damage following a heart attack. ……

This is no longer a different approach to heart health by a cardiologist for more than 30 years… For years he’s said loosing weight is a MUST. Otherwise you may be a “high-risk patient – with a heart attack just waiting to happen. ……