No chest pain. No obvious circulation problems. Yet a large study found hidden artery plaque in more than half of adults without known cardiovascular disease. Feeling fine, or feeling too young to worry, can be misleading.

From fibermaxxing to sleepmaxxing, everyone is looking for a way to get more out of healthy habits. Now whole grains may be having a “maxxing” moment of their own, with heart benefits validated by 87 clinical trials.

For decades, you probably chose low-fat milk and yogurt to protect your weight and cholesterol. But when researchers had people eat three servings of full-fat dairy every day, what happened wasn’t what conventional wisdom would predict…

None of us want to add one more medication to a list that may already be long. So when a natural remedy, especially one with history, has the clout to improve cholesterol, that’s just too good to keep quiet about.

It’s one of the most predictable metabolic shifts of the menopausal transition: your cholesterol has been great all your life, then suddenly it’s not. But none of your doctors explained why. Here’s why losing estrogen pushes cholesterol up, and what you can do.

Most of us think heart attack risk comes down to clogged arteries. But a more immediate threat may be plaque that’s vulnerable to rupture. The good news? Several of the risks tied to dangerous plaque are ones you can change.