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Health News: Cholesterol Calculation Underestimates Heart Disease
May 1st, 2013In what promises to be an eye-opener for many doctors and patients who routinely depend on cholesterol testing, a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins found that the standard formula used for decades to calculate LDL cholesterol levels is often inaccurate.
Statins: Symptom Masking and Medicine Stacking
Western medicine has migrated toward specialization and prescriptions drugs—this leads us to missing the forest for the trees. omen’s medicine is full of “symptom masking and medicine stacking.” Statin use to lower cholesterol is just one more example of this less-than-ideal approach to women’s healthcare.
Statins: Symptom Masking and Medicine Stacking
Western medicine has migrated toward specialization and prescriptions drugs—this leads us to missing the forest for the trees. Women’s medicine is full of “symptom masking and medicine stacking.” Statin use to lower cholesterol is just one more example of this less-than-ideal approach to women’s healthcare.
The Great Statin Controversy
March 1st, 2013Editor’s note: Recently our sister journal, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (ATHM), convened a roundtable discussion featuring four leaders in complementary medicine. Stephen Sinatra, MD, is America’s top integrative cardiologist and a best-selling author.
What does the science say?
The Great Cholesterol Myth
March 1st, 2013Last year, cardiologist Stephen Sinatra and I came together to write a book, The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Cholesterol Won’t Prevent Heart Disease and the Statin-Free Plan That Will.
Trying to prevent heart disease by lowering cholesterol is like trying to prevent obesity by cutting out lettuce. Surprised? Read on.
Health News: Cholesterol and Your Cells
March 1st, 2013Cholesterol plays a key role in regulating proteins involved in cell signaling and may be important to many other cell processes, an international team of researchers reported in Nature Communications.
Health Tips: How to Drop Those Pounds
March 1st, 2013Exchanging fatty foods for lower-fat alternatives will help people shift around 3.5 pounds without any other form of dieting. People taking part in recent trials saw their waistlines become slimmer and levels of LDL cholesterol decrease.
The results demonstrate that weight loss can happen without actively trying to lose weight beyond simply choosing foods lower in fat.
Cholesterol: Who needs it?
January 1st, 2013The actual relationship between cholesterol and heart disease is complex, a moving target.
Uncovering the true lurking killer behind heart disease
Health Tips: A Daily Apple Lowers Chemical Linked to Hardening of the Arteries
November 1st, 2012Eating an apple a day might in fact help keep the cardiologist away, new research suggests. In a study of healthy, middle-aged adults, consumption of one apple a day for four weeks lowered blood levels of a substance linked to hardening of the arteries by 40 percent. Taking capsules containing polyphenols—of the type found in apples—had a similar but less potent effect.
Health News: Study Unlocks Cholesterol-Lowering Activity of the Blueberry
September 1st, 2012The potential cardiovascular benefits of the blueberry may be related to berries’ anthocyanins interacting with bile acids to promote cholesterol reduction, suggests data from a study with hamsters.
