Have you ever felt like your genes are working against you? Maybe your dad had a heart attack. But even if your family’s health history is stacked against you, your fate is far from sealed.

There’s been so much written about cholesterol and nutrition… and what you should do and what you should never do… Well, here’s a fact: If you don’t get enough calcium, it makes you fat and gives you high “bad” cholesterol.

Your doctor may be doing all he can with the tools he’s been given. But besides giving up the worst offending lifestyle factors that make you a prime target, there are some surprising tools at your disposal to protect your heart.

By now you’re well aware of the good fats omega-3 and omega-6. They’re the essential polyunsaturated fats we need to survive. But they’re not the only unsaturated fats that are good for you. Have you heard of …

Does worrying about your health keep you up at night? Or send you running to the doctor every other week? If it does, you may be making matters worse… but your anxiety isn’t the only thing making you sick…

In the wake of discovering that elevated LDL-cholesterol has little to do with the cause of heart attacks, a new set of lipoprotein testing has become available. Will they finally reveal the truth about the relationship between cholesterol and your health?

What causes high blood pressure? Unfortunately, it’s complicated, and there isn’t just one smoking gun. High blood pressure, aka hypertension, can be caused by age, weight, chronic stress, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy diet, smoking or other issues. Usually though, hypertension is caused by…

Testing for cholesterol has been the standard used to evaluate heart disease risk for decades. But if you look at all the data, you might be surprised. Cholesterol itself is not even a real cause of heart disease. It’s time you heard the truth…

Strokes and heart attacks are frightening. Most people are aware that they have just hours if not minutes to get life-saving treatment. So if there were a method that only took a few minutes but would allow you to prevent these killers?

The smart folks at Oxford University have found that women of every age can reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke immediately and significantly by doing one simple thing.

A little bit of sugar is essential for a healthy body. Does that sound strange? It’s true. We wouldn’t have survived as a species without sugar. Today, however, we’re bombarded with processed sugar.

What if you could eat an early supper this evening, say around 6 pm, get a good night’s sleep, and when you wake up at 6 am tomorrow morning, you’d have instantly improved your heart health and lowered your risk for diabetes? Would you try it?