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Benefits of vitamin C for reducing stroke risk (Stroke)Spacer According to the findings of a large European-based study, increased blood levels of vitamin C may reduce the risk of...
Stroke: Taking Essential Fatty Acids, Folic Acid and Arginine Could Reduce Your Risk of Stroke (Stroke)SpacerThis year alone, 125,000 people in the UK will suffer a stroke and 60,000 of them will die as a...
Strokes and Heart health: Look after your heart with B complex (Stroke)SpacerYou don't always get a chance to "re-do" something. But when researchers took a second look at a large study...
Stroke: Folate deficiency may increase stroke risk (Stroke)SpacerWomen don't get enough folate. And the results can be disastrous twice over. According to a recent survey by US...
Heat stroke: The damaging effects of heat stroke (Stroke)SpacerWhen the daily high temperatures hover around 30 degrees Celcius for a few days in a row, you know what...
Stroke: Taking Folic Acid Alongside Vitamin B12 Could Significantly Reduce Your Risk Of Suffering A Fracture Following A Stroke (Stroke)SpacerLatest research findings from Japan have revealed that taking folic acid and vitamin B12 supplements following a stroke can help...
Aspirin's Two Conflicting Sides (Stroke)SpacerThe era of modern pharmaceuticals began in 1900 when the first aspirin tablets were manufactured by a German company called...
Strokes & Heart Attacks: Strokes - Know The Vital Warning Signs (Stroke)SpacerAccording to a disturbing report from the Yale School of Medicine, our chances of suffering a stroke following a heart...
Want To Stop Smoking? An All-natural Approach Can Help You Cope With Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms And Cravings (Stroke)SpacerIf there's one area that both mainstream and alternative medicine agree on, it's that using tobacco is one of the...
Grapes & Health: How Grapes Could Help Stroke Patients Recover (Stroke)SpacerIf you eat grapes, you may be able to minimise the brain damage caused by a stroke, according to a...
Stroke & High Blood Pressure: Know What Action You Need To Take To Prevent A Life-Threatening Stroke (Stroke)SpacerIf you've ever had a 'funny turn' in which you experienced temporary muscle weakness on one side, disturbed vision or...
Stroke Symptoms: Essential Measures That Could Save Your Life! (Stroke)Spacer Each year, over 100,000 people in England and Wales suffer their first stroke and, alarmingly, it remains the most common...
Heart disease: Aspirin - The wonder drug that can be anything but (Heart Disease)Spacer  Millions of people take aspirin every day… many of whom want to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Doctors tell them...
High blood pressure: Discover nature's own blood pressure regulators that can help ward off a heart attack or stroke (High Blood Pressure)Spacer   The number of people suffering from hypertension is growing at an alarming rate – there are currently thought to be...
Numerous benefits linked to folate: It reduces your risk of everything from stroke to heart disease (Heart Disease)Spacer  Is folate the new "it" vitamin?   Suddenly, the summer of 2007 seems like the summer of folate, with multiple studies...
How folic acid lowers your risk of a heart attack or stroke (Heart Disease)Spacer   Okay - I'll bite. That was my first thought when I came across this opening sentence from a new study published...
Heart disease: A new weapon in the fight against heart disease (Heart Disease)SpacerWhen an infection arises, your body sends in the WBCs. White blood cells, that is. WBCs (also known as leukocytes)...
Heart attacks:Why aspirin isn't harmless (Heart Disease)SpacerDoctors that prescribe aspirin to prevent heart attacks would have you believe that low dosages of the 20th Century “wonder...
Aspirin: Taking aspirin could harm rather than benefit your health (Heart Disease)SpacerThe Wonder Drug of the 20th Century will probably not finish out the 21st Century with its “wonder-ful” reputation intact....
Migraines: Migraines may increase stroke risk (Migraines)Spacer“I have discovered a cure that starts within 30 minutes for migraine headaches.” That compelling comment comes from an HSI...
How to ward off the winter-time blues (Depression)SpacerWith the festive season over and most of the winter still ahead, many of us (who are not fortunate enough...
Cholesterol: Statins - Wonder Drugs Or Simply Hype? (Heart Disease)SpacerAn article in a US newspaper, USA Today, was sent to me by a colleague from Baltimore recently, which ran...
Low Blood Pressure Dangers: Media Coverage Ignores Serious Risk To Your Health (High Blood Pressure)Spacer"The lower your blood pressure, the better off you are." That is a quote by Dr. Ramachandran S. Vasan of the...
Homocysteine Levels: Getting To The Crux Of Heart Health (Heart Disease)SpacerYou wouldn't buy a house after looking at it just from the outside. The exterior is important, but you'd want...
Statins Side Effects: Miracle Statins? Don't Believe Everything You Read (Heart Disease)SpacerResearch findings from a study involving cholesterol-lowering statins drugs came out this week. And virtually all the reports treated the...
HRT: Are We Now Trading Hot Flushes For Strokes? (Menopause)SpacerYou may have heard the news last week that another (yes, ANOTHER!) major hormone replacement therapy (HRT) study was shut...
Atherosclerosis: Simple Ways To Protect Your Heart (Heart Disease)SpacerBy now, you and most e-Alert readers could probably recite this key dietary maxim in your sleep: For optimum heart...
High Blood Pressure Drugs: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Blood Pressure Drugs - And How To Avoid Them (High Blood Pressure)SpacerI met Bobbi when I was about 35 years old. It was love at first sight. She was a redhead...
Proteolytic Enzymes: The Revolutionary All-in-one Enzyme Therapy That Has Multiple Health Benefits... From Dissolving Blood Clots To Treating Bronchitis (Other Natural Remedies)SpacerLast year, in your December 2002 issue of HSI, we introduced you to nattokinase, a remarkable natural enzyme that can...
Barley Grass: How A Plant Remedy May Offer Vital Protection Against Heart Disease, Stroke And Ulcerative Colitis (Heart Disease)SpacerBarley grass, the botanical name of which is hordeum, is proving to be an extremely valuable remedy for a host...
Arterial Plaque: Why There's No Fooling Mother Nature (Heart Disease)SpacerLast week I got an e-mail from a friend of mine, Paul, who was very excited to tell me about...
Cholesterol & Heart Attacks: Is Cholesterol The Problem Or Not? (Heart Disease)SpacerI remember the conversation as if it were yesterday. My friend Wendy called, sobbing uncontrollably. I could hardly understand what...
Second Hand Smoke: How To Alleviate The Dangers Of Second Hand Smoke (Heart Disease)SpacerThe move to ban smoking in public places seems to be gathering speed - it's certainly gained a lot of...
Vitamin B6: How A Deficiency In One Essential Nutrient Could Quadruple Your Risk Of Stroke (Vitamins)SpacerThe benefits of vitamin B6 are wide ranging - from supporting protein metabolism and muscle growth to overcoming premenstrual symptoms...
Aspirin Risks: Why You Should Take Care When Taking Common Painkillers (Heart Disease)SpacerThere was a time when the average person probably never thought of taking an aspirin with another painkiller. There was...
Blepharitis: NAC - An All-round Star Player For Good Health (Heart Disease)SpacerIt's an occupational hazard, of sorts. When you do what I do, you inevitably get called whenever a friend or...
Homocysteine: How A Key Risk Factor For Heart Disease And Stroke Continues To Be Ignored By Mainstream Medicine (Heart Disease)SpacerWell-known media personality and nutritionist, Patrick Holford, recently turned established mainstream medical thinking on its head by saying: "Forget your...
Angina Symptoms: Why Your Doctor May Be Prescribing The Wrong Drugs For Your Angina Symptoms (Heart Disease)SpacerJust imagine for a moment that your heart can't breathe: starved of oxygen to this vital organ, your body will...
Blood Pressure: Lower Your Blood Pressure And Reduce Your Risk Of Stroke, Diabetes And Heart Disease (High Blood Pressure)SpacerHigh blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of today's major medical problems. Two out of ten people in the UK...
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