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The statin that raises your risk of diabetes and cataracts

Doctors often prescribe statins to help lower cholesterol. However, they come with a laundry list of worrying side effects, including a higher risk of dementia, kidney damage and muscle pain. Now we’re finding some statins can increase the risk for diabetes and cataracts…

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New truths about cholesterol

At times, it seems as though our modern, stressed-out lifestyles are designed to give us heart problems. But if you understand the troublesome heart risk factors we face, you can do something about them. Here is a straightforward guide to a few of the basic pitfalls you can avoid so that you can improve your cardiovascular health.

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Low omega-3 levels? You might as well be smoking

Omega-3 fatty acids are good for your heart. Smoking is bad for your heart. Those are two well-known truths, right? Well, here’s a new and shocking one: Research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that low levels of omega-3s are just as powerful in predicting early death as smoking.