Dr. Weil's Healthy Living Heart & Vascular Health Archive

Medical Tourism: Heading Overseas for Surgery
Posted Thu, Apr 10, 2008, 4:24 am PDT
The spiraling cost of American medical care has birthed the phenomenon known as "medical tourism," used by individuals who can't afford medical…
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Questioning Cholesterol?
Posted Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 4:49 pm PST
Indeed, more than half of all first heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels.
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Is It Better To Be Fat?
Posted Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 4:32 pm PST
Over the years, the researchers found that obese men were 35 percent less likely to die than normal weight men.
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Pistachios for a Healthy Heart
Posted Tue, Jul 03, 2007, 3:34 pm PDT
The latest research shows that pistachios appear to benefit the heart by relaxing blood vessels and lowering blood pressure.
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Lower Inflammation, Boost Health
Posted Tue, Mar 20, 2007, 8:07 am PDT
One of the most exciting revelations of modern medical research is that inflammation may be a unifying, underlying cause of many modern diseases…
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Green Tea and Heart Health
Posted Mon, Mar 05, 2007, 4:19 pm PST
Tea polyphenols may help protect the body from cancer by destroying free radicals, and may protect the heart by lowering cholesterol and improving…
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