Some of us need no encouragement to treat ourselves to deep dark rich chocolate.
But for those of us feeling guilty when it comes to treating ourselves worry no more!
Stick to moderate amounts of high quality dark chocolate.
It is rich in antioxidants and flavanols which are good for your cardiovascular system.
Chocolate can indeed be good for your heart.
Those at risk for heart attack might surprise you.
For people with genetic risk factors and a family history of heart disease, a “healthy” lifestyle may not be enough.
Aggressive dietary and exercise changes and early screening for signs of illness are a must.
Dr. Dean Ornish, who has researched the relationship between lifestyle and health, says even the most malignant family history can be overcome.
“I don’t think anyone is doomed to have heart disease,” said Ornish, founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute.
“You know, even if your mother and your father and your sister and your brother all die from heart disease it doesn’t mean you need ever to die from it,” he added. “It just means you need to make bigger changes in your life than someone else who doesn’t have those kinds of genes.”
Papayas blocked at the boarder because of salmonella.
As many as 100 people were made ill because of the Mexican papayas.
The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday the outbreak, which spread to 23 U.S. states, was linked to fresh papayas from nearly all the major papaya-growing regions in Mexico.
Salmonella infection commonly causes diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps in the first few days after eating a contaminated product.
The infection is the most common U.S. foodborne illness and continues to strike the country as often as it did 15 years ago, linked to contaminated meats, produce and processed foods. Last year it caused nearly 2,300 hospitalizations and 29 deaths. One outbreak led to a recall of nearly half a billion eggs.
If you think that being overweight effects only the obese then think again.
Obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the single most important preventable cause of chronic non-communicable diseases, and will add an extra 7.8 million cases of diabetes, 6.8 million cases of heart disease and stroke, and 539,000 cases of cancer in the United States by 2030.
Some 32 percent of men and 35 percent of women are now obese in the United States, according to a research team led by Claire Wang at the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia University in New York. They published their findings in a special series of four papers on obesity in The Lancet.
Being in love is wonderful and being a couple is even better.
Well maybe not.
In a recent study of married people in relationships of 14-25 years it seems that any bad habits brought into the relationship seem to prevail.
In other words, who ever brings in the bad habit brings the other partner down with him.
And we do mean him.
Among straight couples, guys were almost always the ones who brought the other partner’s health down, a new study found.
Reczek interviewed 122 heterosexual, lesbian, and gay couples with an average age of older than 40 and an average relationship duration of between 14 and 25 years. Then she teased out subtle and direct clues as to how the couple interacted in health-related behaviors. What did she find? Three ways that partners can erode each other’s health habits: “influence,” “synchronicity” and “personal responsibility.”
The examples of each will sound familiar to any long-married person. “Yeah, I drink a Dr. Pepper every morning,” Jason, a man in the study, is quoted as saying. “It’s like a ritual.” Maria, who never drank sodas before marrying Jason, now indulges. She has also picked up his junk food habit. “I can definitely bring her health down, if she ever let herself get on the bandwagon, so to speak,” he told Reczek.
Jason is influencing his wife to drink soda and eat junk food and he’s dismissing any responsibility he may have for not changing his own habits by using the words “if she ever let herself,” an argument that his wife has personal responsibility for her own health. It’s not his job.
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