We always knew that oily fish is good for people who want to keep their hearts healthy. But what should you be indulging in if you recently turned vegetarian or if you’ve always been a vegetarian? Here is our list of vegetarian foods that are healthy for your heart. Berries: Strawberries and cranberries, along with other berries, are known to be rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants are known to reduce a person’s risk of being affected by heart diseases. They also help in stress reduction and thus keep high blood pressure risks at bay. Tomatoes, prunes, green tea and red bell peppers are great sources of antioxidants. Fruits that contain high amounts of water (watermelon for instance) are said to be recommended as they are known to contain an extremely powerful antioxidant called lycopene. Nuts: Almonds, walnuts and pistachios also make for a great veggie yet nutty way to keep your heart happy. These are a good source of fiber and protein; and best yet would be  [...]

It doesn’t take a genius to guess that heart diseases and heart health has a lot to do with high cholesterol, which is medically called, hypercholesterolemia. If you’ve recently been diagnosed with this condition, it would mean that you might need to take charge of your life and you’d have to keep an eye on your lifestyle. Your lifestyle and the choices you make might be the actual culprits behind your poor health. If you do get prescribed drugs by your doctor, it would mean that you would still be expected to put down your levels by becoming more active and changing your diet. Use these simple tricks to help you out. Cholesterol – the Good and the Bad: All cholesterol is not bad for your body. Your body wouldn’t be able to survive if it was stripped of all the cholesterol levels. It needs cholesterol to survive and function properly.  But if you stock up on the saturated  [...]

While cholesterol plays an important role in building of body cells and hormones, too much of cholesterol, which is a fat-like substance, can cause adverse effects on the body, like creating heart and blood vessel disease. The main causes of high cholesterol levels are diets that include certain types of fats, and negligence towards conditions like diabetes, a non-optimum performing thyroid or pituitary gland, liver disease and kidney failure. If continued unchecked, this leads to a cardiac arrest, which is better understood as a heart attack. While the treatment for high cholesterol begins with a change in everyday habits and lifestyle, here are 5 cholesterol lowering drugs that are available in the market: Statins:- These are the most commonly used medicine for lowering blood pressure. These drugs belong to a class called HMG CO-A reductase inhibitors. Their main job is  [...]

Regularly brushing your teeth can help prevent a heart disease? Think we're nuts? Well, join the club! We thought we'd lost it when we read this for the first time. But guess what, it's true! Read on to know more about how your oral health and heart health are linked. Scientists Speak - According to scientists, people who fail to keep their teeth and their gums clean, are more likely to have a suffering heart. Well, it had been established in the past that if a person has gum disease, he/she is more likely to have a heart disease as well. This is, however, the first time that they have attempted establishing a link between a healthy heart and healthy brushing habits. What does the study say? The study states that people with poor brushing habits are 70 percent more likely to have a heart disease in comparison to their counterparts who brush twice in a day. It was found that bleeding gums, that are generally facilitated by poor dental hygiene, could lead to the  [...]

Heart attacks are among some of the highest causes of death in men and women alike in this country however what was once almost always fatal may now be possible to live through with the prompt and proper cure and treatment of a heart attack. The technical or medical term for heart attack is myocardial infarction and this happens when the flow of blood to any area of the heart is disrupted. This disruption of the blood supply can cause serious damage to the heart due to a lack of oxygen and may even result in the death of the heart tissue if not treated quickly enough. In many cases a heart attack may be a direct result of a condition known as CAD or coronary artery disease. This is an illness that occurs slowly over time with plague slowly forming on the inside walls of the coronary blood vessels. In some cases this plaque can rupture and lead to the development of a blood clot therefore causing a heart attack to occur when the clot reaches a size that obstructs a  [...]