Study: Chocolate improves blood vessel function
Chocoholics were given further reason to rejoice Saturday when a small clinical study showed that dark chocolate improves the function of blood vessels.
While the researchers cautioned against bingei ...
Exercise Can Create New Blood Vessels
Bucking the conventional wisdom that people with heart problems should take it easy, a new study has come out showing that exercise is good for even a bad heart.
Furthermore, if you don't exercis ...
What to Expect From Your First Acupuncture Session
The first time I went to see an acupuncturist, I was actually quite scared. There you are, on the table, suddenly realizing that you have paid this person to stick needles into you! Will it hurt? Is t ...
Birth weight 'sets future health'
Blood vessel changes linked to poor health later in life can be spotted within a few years in boys born small, say scientists.
Eight-year-olds who were smaller at birth were more likely to hav ...
A Pain in the Head
In the United States alone, up to 50 million people seek medical help for headaches every year and about half a billion dollars is spent on headache remedies each year. Most headaches are caused by fa ...
How to prevent a heart attack
A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to the part of the heart muscle (the myocardium) is severely reduced or stopped because one or more of the heart's arteries is blocked. If you are someone y ...
A Little Soak Can Go a Long Way
The revitalizing effect of baths is no secret. From the therapeutic communal bathhouses of ancient Rome to the Turkish hamams of the Ottoman Empire, people have been soaking their aching joints for ce ...
Get Your Vitamins Through Diet
While many health addicts swear by their vitamin pills, it turns out that middle-aged women at risk for heart disease do not get much benefit from taking vitamin C, E or beta carotene, according to re ...
A Single Fatty Snack Can Affect Heart Health
We all tell ourselves that the occasional indulgence can't be all that bad for us, but according to researchers at the University of Sydney, a single high-fat snack can diminish the body's natural a ...
High calcium, vitamin D intake may have a down side
In one of the first studies to examine the relationship between diet and brain lesions, researchers observed that elderly people who reported higher calcium and vitamin D intake were much more likely ...
