Drinking Two or More Diet Sodas Daily Can Significantly Increase Postmenopausal Women’s Risks for Heart Attacks or Strokes

Diet sodas and drinks with artificial sweeteners were introduced as a healthier alternative to sugar and were meant to combat some of the harmful health effects of sugar such as obesity and diabetes. These drinks have been marketed heavily in the United States and worldwide and have become widely accepted to the point that one …

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Heart Attack from the Flu? How Common Infections Can Trigger Heart Attacks and Strokes

February is Heart Disease Awareness Month and we are being constantly reminded of all the well-known heart disease risk-factors such as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. However, did you know that common infections like the flu, urinary tract infections (UTIs), sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia, oral infections like gingivitis, viral infections like herpes or hepatitis, bacterial …

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“Drop and Give Me Forty” Assessing Men’s Risk of Heart Disease by The Number Of Pushups They Can Do

In a study conducted on middle-aged firemen by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and published in the February 15, 2018 issue of the journal, JAMA Network Open; it was reported that “those (men) who could do more than 40 pushups in a row had a 96% lower risk of being …

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