Tag: Heart Disease
Don’t Overlook These 5 Sneaky Signs of Heart Disease
Heart disease kills more than 659,000 Americans each year and one person every 36 seconds in the United States, making it the…
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What is Cholesterol? How It Works, Foods to Avoid, and the Truth About HDL
Cholesterol is a little molecule with huge implications for human health. Read on for a breakdown of how cholesterol works—including why HDL…
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1 in 4 Adults Has Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Most Go Undiagnosed, Posing Heart Risks
One in 4 adults worldwide are at risk of cardiovascular incidents due to an often-missed liver disorder, according to a new scientific…
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A Widowmaker Cardiac Event Was the Wake-Up Call I Needed to Change My Diet
Biking in the Colorado mountains can be challenging any day. But on Aug. 1, 2018, it was life-changing. My husband, Chris, and…
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New Olive Oil Study Sparks Questions for Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eaters
A large new study out of Harvard suggests that a small daily dose of olive oil may substantially reduce the risk of…
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What’s the Difference Between Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest?
In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. Every year, more than 800,000 Americans have a heart attack,…
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A Life-Threatening Stroke Spurred Me to Try a Plant-Based Diet, and I’ve Never Looked Back
Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, I was a pretty active kid. I lived for playing outdoors with my brothers, Bryan and Bobby,…
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Meet Columbus Batiste, MD, the Plant-Based Cardiologist Changing Hearts and Minds
After watching his father suffer from diabetes, cardiologist Columbus Batiste, MD, went plant-based and launched the Integrative Cardiovascular Disease Program at California’s…
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New Studies Show Eating Plant-Based at Any Age Can Protect Against Heart Disease Later In Life
Two large-scale observational studies published last week in the Journal of the American Heart Association came to the same conclusion: the more…
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I Put High Cholesterol and Severe Arthritis Behind Me on a Plant-Based Diet
I’ve always loved exercise, but after I began having meniscus tears in my knees that required surgery, I didn’t exercise much, if…
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A Carb-Centric Diet Helped Me Recover from Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes has plagued my family for generations. I have early childhood memories of my grandma eating chocolate cake and saying, “I’ll just…
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I Suffered a Widowmaker Heart Attack at 45. Today I’m Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet
I’ve lived in Texas my whole life, raised by parents who liked to fry stuff. I played high school football and ate…
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