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Depression as Bad for Your Heart as Smoking

In All Health Watch, Anti-Aging, Featured Article, Heart and Cardiovascular

One of the worst things you can do to your heart is smoke. We all know that.

But now a new study has uncovered a surprising heart risk factor that is just as dangerous as cigarettes.

Researchers in Germany tracked over 3,400 men for 10 years. They found that depression raised their risk of dying from cardiovascular disease about the same amount as smoking and being obese.… Read More

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New Study: Red Meat Is NOT Bad for Your Heart

In All Health Watch, Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, Diet and Nutrition, Featured Article, Heart and Cardiovascular, Heart Attacks, Heart Disease

“Beef—it’s what’s for dinner.”

This famous TV commercial line spoken by Robert Mitchum was launched in 1992 as the beef industry tried to fight off the entrenched medical belief that eating red meat caused disease.

Even today, U.S. nutritional guidelines still advise eating less than 3 ounces of beef or pork per day.1

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Did Alan Thicke Ignore These Early Heart Warning Signs?

In All Health Watch, Featured Article, Heart and Cardiovascular, Heart Attacks

Alan Thicke kept himself in great shape.

The 6-foot-2 star of “Growing Pains” was a lifelong athlete. He played college football at Western University in his native Canada. And Thicke loved to play hockey. Throughout his life he played pickup games whenever he could.

For years, he played every Tuesday and Thursday at a rink in Burbank, Calif. That’s where he suffered a fatal heart attack yesterday at age 69.… Read More