Category Archives: Heart Health

A new study has found that exercise is equally as important for keeping your heart healthy as eating a healthy diet or lowering your cholesterol. The researchers found that after a single session of endurance training, there was greater expression of genes that repair DNA damage. The findings are important to better understand how exercise ...click here to read more

Dear Friends, February is often referred to as the month of love, and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it makes perfect sense now to discuss how love affects health. Love is not just a mere emotion. In fact, falling in love, being in love, and even falling out of love can impact your ...click here to read more

Experiencing any sort of chest pain can be worrisome, and this is especially true of chest pain that comes and goes. You may think it was just a passing discomfort that has been resolved, but the pain returns and reignites your worry that something could be seriously wrong. What causes chest pain that comes and ...click here to read more

What if lowering your blood pressure was super-delicious? Well, it could be! In fact, it could be as easy as blending the right fruits into a smoothie! High blood pressure is a reading over 140/90 mm Hg, but even if you’re over 120 you are considered to have prehypertension which, if not controlled, can send ...click here to read more

In recognition of World Cancer Day—taking place on February 4, 2017—Bel Marra Health has put together a roundup of articles featuring information on colorectal cancer and prostate cancer, as well as how these diseases relate to and are affected by diabetes, blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease. Enzyme may prevent tumor growth in colorectal cancer Researchers ...click here to read more

Commonly used and prescribed pain relievers could increase your risk of heart attack if they are taken while you have a cold or flu-like sickness. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, can be prescribed to reduce the symptoms associated with acute respiratory infections, but the findings of a recent study show that using these medications while ...click here to read more

The American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation, has asserted that the timing and planning of meals could impact your heart health. Habits including eating breakfast and planning when you will eat your meals and snacks are associated with healthier diets, which may help to reduce your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The frequency and time that ...click here to read more

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Ohio State have developed a new method for predicting who is most at risk for developing thrombus. Thrombus occurs when blood clots form in the heart and can cause a disruption in blood flow, leading to serious cardiac events. Using simulations created on the Stampede supercomputer at Texas Advanced ...click here to read more

Bad weather, like snow squalls and blizzards, are common in the winter months and can be dangerous. Not only do snowstorms cause hazardous driving conditions, but they can also contribute to power outages and other events that can negatively impact your health and safety. A recent study found that, aside from the obvious dangers associated ...click here to read more

Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have developed new tools to help doctors predict the 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The team has created a set of risk charts specific to 182 countries that can help assess the future risk of cardiovascular disease events, including heart attack and stroke. These ...click here to read more

Highly demanding jobs often result in intense stress that may affect an individual’s mental health and capacity for sleep. For some people, the use of natural sleep aids may help alleviate the symptoms of stress and other mental health conditions attributable to difficult jobs, whereas for others, the high stress levels at work may destroy ...click here to read more

Balancing your HDL—good cholesterol—and LDL—bad cholesterol—is important to help reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, but how can you manage your cholesterol ratio? Read on to discover why a healthy cholesterol ratio is important, as well as how to calculate your cholesterol ratio, ideal ratios, the pros and cons of total cholesterol testing, ...click here to read more

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that treatment for patients whose blood pressure falls in the gray zone can be personalized through the use of CT scans. The gray zone describes blood pressure levels that are just above normal, or mildly high—this range is also referred to as prehypertension. This development is exceedingly beneficial, ...click here to read more

Research from the University of California, Irvine has shown that regular electroacupuncture treatments may help to lower high blood pressure, or hypertension. This acupuncture treatment works by increasing the number of opioids known as enkephalins released in the area of the brainstem that controls and regulates blood pressure. The tests were carried out on rats ...click here to read more