an apple a day

For anyone who’s ever been to Whole Foods, this won’t come as much of a surprise, but Alexandra Haller at Her Active Life blogged recently about how healthy foods are becoming more expensive, while unhealthy foods are getting cheaper. Haller cited this story from MSNBC, which quotes the University of Washington study that revealed this […]

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Kimberly Scardicchio over at Eat Know How posted a great guide yesterday to HDL (High-density lipoprotein, or “good,” cholesterol), LDL (low-density lipoprotein, or “bad,” cholesterol) and how to get the right balance of the two (high HDL and low LDL).
Her tactics:
1) Walk for 30-60 minutes, five times a week.
2) Consume HDL-rich foods such as extra […]

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I was really excited about this until I got to the age recommendation.
It seems that moderate amounts of alcohol (one to two drinks per day) can have nearly the same effect on your heart health as moderate exercise. And a combination of the two is like a one-two heart health punch:
People who don’t drink at […]

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Yesterday Erin Goeres at Women’s Health magazine blogged about something I’ve always questioned: is there anything wrong with using hot water from the tap when you’re going to be boiling it? Now I always thought the cold-water-for-boiling phenomenon had something to do with either taste or speed of boiling (not that that would make sense… […]

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According to a new German study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the number of heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich when the German team played in the World Cup last summer.
“I know a little bit about the Super Bowl,” study author Dr. Gerhard Steinbeck of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich […]

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No one actually thought sitting around on the couch would help your overall health, of course. But this is an interesting development: researchers at King’s College London found that people who lead a sedentary lifestyle age faster than their more active counterparts in terms of risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, high blood […]

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Right after posting the cayenne pepper tip from Men’s Health (and after noting that my headache was stronger than ever), I just couldn’t resist trying it. Let’s hope this photo doesn’t haunt me for the rest of my life. Ah, the internet.
I mixed the prescribed 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne with 4 ounces of warm water […]

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This morning as I popped a couple of Advils to treat a headache whose source I am quite sure of, I stumbled upon this article
from Health magazine via CNN.com about surprising causes of headaches. The nerve-cell-stimulating effects of perfume, the chemical and electrical processes in the brain caused by weather changes, the scalp-tugging of too-tight […]

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