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A Choice of Treatment for the Heart

by Catherine M Crawford

Over the past four years, Catherine Crawford, an Aromatherapy practitioner, has experienced arrhythmia of the heart. In July 2002, while having to wait for a doctor's appointment...

Cardiovascular Health: New Nutrition Strategies Part I

by Penny Crowther

The article discusses research which challenges the supposed link between high cholesterol levels and the risk of heart attack. There is a new theory that cholesterol is used as ...

Cardiovascular Health: New Nutrition Strategies Part II

by Penny Crowther

Despite decades of health advice to reduce saturated fat and cholesterol, heart disease is still the number one killer in the UK and a leading cause of death worldwide. Prefacing h...

Cardiovascular Health: New Nutrition Strategies Part III

by Penny Crowther

In this part, the author discusses the role of the optimum fats in cardiovascular health, and explores the emotional aspect of heart problems in the context of Chinese medicine and...

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

by Kate Neil

In this Expert Regular Column, Kate Neil looks at the risk of cardiovascular disease and what can be done to reduce such risk. She gives the case study of a 45 year old man with a ...

Chelation Research Merits Priority Attention

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The statistics regarding Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) make grim reading. In the UK, CHD affects 24% of all men and 25% of all women – with 150,000 ...

Cholesterol a Symptom, not the Disease

by Peter Dingle PhD

The author firstly sets out to refute the popular assumption that cholesterol is the major factor causing cardiovascular disease, and that lowering cholesterol, through the use of ...

David's Heart

by David Evans

This article, written in the first person with the heart itself as the narrator, is a warning of the damage which can be inflicted on the heart and indeed, its owner's life, by a p...

Dietary Recommendations to Reduce Heart Disease Risk

by Dr Jeffrey Bland

Dr Jeffrey Bland is a giant in the field of nutritional research. This recently published book describes fascinating research about nutritional interaction with our genes, and how ...

Essential Fatty Acids: Treatment for a Heart Condition

by Dr Jav Nazemi

It's a cliché, but out of adversity there is often triumph. In the case of this story, however, my family's adversity led to more than triumph; it led to the introduction of a new ...

Evidence-based Practice: Cardiovascular Health - A Different Perspective

by Alyssa Burns-Hill

In this column, the author states that heart disease and stroke are the main cause of death in the UK, and that more than one in three deaths in 2005 was attributed to cardiovasc...

Green Tea Good for the Soul – but even better, Good for the Heart

by Ivy Greenwell

Since blood sugar tends to increase with age, accelerating aging by crosslinking with proteins (glycation), the ability of green tea to lower serum glucose levels is extremely im...

Heart Problems and Prevention

by Klaus Ferlow

Heart disease can be prevented even if there is a strong tendency for heart problems in the family. Let's examine what are the symptoms of heart disease.

Inflammation, Heart Disease and Marine Oil

by Carl D Thompson

This article describes the research indicating that it is inflammation which seems to be the culprit in heart attack. No longer thought of as a ‘plumbing problem’, it has been ob...

Ketchup - Healthy Heart

by Dr Ammar Ibne Anwar

This article focuses on the benefits of tomatoes and tomato ketchup. Tomato ketchup is a natural source of the powerful antioxidant lycopene which the human body is unable to manuf...

Man, 21, Dies of Heart Attack

by Linda Lazarides BA

Linda Lazarides discusses 'cardiac spasm' as a common cause of heart failure, especially in young people. She describes the case of Peter, a young computer engineer, who collapsed ...

Neuroskeletal Realignment Therapy for Stroke

by Carole Preen

This column focuses on Neuroskeletal Realignment Therapy treatment for strokes.

Positive Emotions - The Secret to Positive Health?

by Dr Alan Watkins

Traditional stress management techniques usually deal with stress after the fact, hours after your body has been subjected to heavy tides of adrenaline and pulses of cortisol. ...<...

Preventing Coronary Heart Disease and Strokes

by Colin Sutherland, Ph.D.

Are you at risk of coronary heart disease or strokes? It is possible to minimize that risk by your own actions? In the author's experience, when people really understand what is go...

Sarah's Story of High Blood Pressure

by June Butlin

A diagnosis of high blood pressure should be taken seriously as it can lead to coronary heart disease, the commonest cause of death, in the western world. The specific consequenc...