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Reducing Stress Lowers Risk of Cardiovascular Problems
A Review in The Lancet reveals the importance of healthy lifestyle choices to reduce stressors related to cardiovascular risk factors. Researchers from John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore examined records between 1990 to 2006. They observed how stress affects the sympathetic nervous system, impacts physiology, and the effect it has on the cardiovascular system. Lead author, Daniel Brotman, claims "Acute physical stressors such as sugery, trauma, and intense physical exertion are well known triggers of cardiovascular events. Emotional stressors are increasingly recognized as precipitants of such events." (Read more about Reducing Stress Lowers Risk of Cardiovascular Problems)
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Prenatal Multivitamins May Reduce Risk of Pediatric Cancers
Moms-to-be, take your multi-vitamins.
It's become widely accepted that mothers taking folic acid during pregnancy can help reduce the risk of several birth defects. But a new study at the University of Toronto finds a correlation between pre-natal multivitamins containing folic acid and the decreased risk of several pediatric cancers: leukemia, brain tumors, and neuroblastoma (a malignant tumor in nerve tissue).
This report in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics found that taking a multivitamin with folic acid before and during early pregnancy could reduce the risk of leukemia by 36%, childhood brain tumors by 27%, and neuroblastoma by 47%. (Read more about Prenatal Multivitamins May Reduce Risk of Pediatric Cancers)
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Family History
How well do you know your family medical history?
We mean, really know –in the sense of knowing what each parent, brother, sister, grandparent, and great-grandparent, aunt, uncle, and cousin has or has had in terms of medical conditions. (Read more about Family History)
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VITAMIN E OVERUSE
There is an important health warning tonight for you and your family. Vitamin E, which had at one point been thought to help promote health and well-being, has been shown to be harmful in several ways.
Yet, many are still taking it in doses deemed potentially dangerous.
Patricia Jordan had high blood pressure and thought taking Vitamin E would be helpful in preventing heart disease. “When I took the Vitamin E I believe it was 600 IUs,” says Patricia. (Read more about VITAMIN E OVERUSE)
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AHA: PLAQUE REMOVER, VITAMIN E DEATH RISK
In data presented at this year’s American Heart Association annual meeting, scientists from the biotech company lipid sciences announced they are able to reverse the build up of fatty cholesterol plaque in heart arteries. (Read more about AHA: PLAQUE REMOVER, VITAMIN E DEATH RISK)
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ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS
Millions of americans take vitamin supplements every day. Antioxidant vitamins are a huge part of the sell--on the belief they can help prevent major diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes. But now, the American Heart Association says these vitamin supplements may not do a thing for the cardiovascular system. (Read more about ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS)
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