Heart Health Archives

What’s Considered a “Normal” Triglyceride Level?

Feb 5, 2018 · Jay Roland · Heart Health

Coursing through your bloodstream right now are compounds called lipids, which are fats, oils, hormones, and cholesterol. Some are helpful and necessary. Others aren’t. While HDL and LDL cholesterol get most of the attention when it comes to your lipid profile and how it relates to your risk of heart … Read More

Oxidized Cholesterol & Vegetable Oils Identified as the Main Cause of Heart Disease

Jan 11, 2018 · UHN Staff · Heart Health

Is the American Heart Association wrong about their recommendation to avoid foods high in cholesterol and to replace saturated fats, like those found in animal foods, with polyunsaturated fats, like those found in vegetable oils? A growing number of experts think so, including a 98-year-old researcher from the University of … Read More

Angina Pain Feels Like Pressure on Your Chest

Jan 3, 2018 · Cindy Foley · Heart Health

Angina is chest pain that is not in itself an illness, but rather a symptom of a potentially serious condition. The most common form is “angina pectoris,” which is chest pain that occurs when your heart doesn’t get the nutrients it needs to function properly. The American Heart Association (AHA) describes … Read More

Even If You’re Healthy, You Can Still Have a Heart Attack: Symptoms of Heart Disease You Can’t Ignore

Dec 27, 2017 · Elaine Fawcett · Heart Health

Do you live a healthy lifestyle by following a whole grain diet? Unfortunately, despite your actions to thwart a heart attack, your whole grain diet may do more harm than good. Why? Because the root cause of heart disease is inflammation! And, managing inflammation goes much beyond the standard prevention … Read More

How to Lower Cholesterol Naturally with Red Wine

Dec 27, 2017 · Kathleen Jade, ND · Heart Health

Moderate alcohol consumption, especially in the form of red wine, is a well-researched way to lower cholesterol naturally. If consumed regularly in light to moderate amounts, red wine is well known to decrease the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other dire consequences of cardiovascular disease. One of the primary … Read More

Lipoprotein (a) and Lowering Cholesterol Naturally

Dec 26, 2017 · UHN Staff · Heart Health

Lipoprotein (a) or Lp(a) is a small LDL-like particle that strongly increases your risk for heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular problems. Studies show a very direct, linear correlation between high lipoprotein (a) in your blood and risk: the higher your Lp(a) cholesterol numbers, the more plaque builds up in … Read More

What Causes Cardiovascular Disease? Sugar! Could a Low Sugar Diet Help?

Dec 26, 2017 · UHN Staff · Heart Health

Finally, after decades of obsessing about fat, researchers are focusing on sugar in their quest to understand what causes cardiovascular disease. The latest study to zero in on sugar is the largest yet to link sugar to dying from heart disease, strokes, and other forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The … Read More

Congenital Heart Disease: How It Can Affect Us in Adulthood

Dec 26, 2017 · Jay Roland · Heart Health

An estimated 40,000 babies are born in the U.S. every year with congenital heart disease—an abnormality of the structure of the heart or blood vessels. Not long ago, many of these children wouldn’t live to reach adulthood. However, advances in treatments are helping people born with congenital heart disease to … Read More

Beta Blocker Side Effects: Small Price to Pay for Heart Failure Help

Dec 22, 2017 · Cindy Foley · Heart Health

Physicians have been prescribing beta blockers for decades. Discovered by Scottish pharmacologist Dr. James Black, who earned a 1988 Nobel Prize for his work, beta blockers revolutionized the treatment of angina (chest pain). Today, the drug is used successfully for far more problems, including other cardiac abnormalities, high blood pressure, … Read More

What Is Cholesterol and Why Is the Current Standard Thinking Wrong?

Dec 21, 2017 · UHN Staff · Heart Health

Even doctors sometimes give an incorrect answer to the question, “What is cholesterol?” by making the common assumption that cholesterol is a type of fat. But cholesterol is not a fat. What is “cholesterol”? The word cholesterol comes from the Greek words chole (meaning bile) and stereos (meaning solid) and … Read More

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