Heart Disease

A new review published in the medical journal Cardiovascular Research provides more encouraging news for those embracing a plant-based lifestyle: Eating a diet rich in plant-based foods was linked to a lower risk for cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis as compared to diets that include animal products. ...

Not to cast aspersions on the people I love, but I started to notice something not so flattering about the older folks in my family: They all got irritable and lost their memory as they aged. They also all took statins, daily drugs to lower their cholesterol, and enjoyed a life of eating cheese, lots and lots of cheese. Eve...

A person's heart beats about 2.5 billion times over the span of an average lifetime. We seem to take that for granted. Half of Americans suffer some form of heart disease, and more than 840,000 people died last year from heat-related illnesses (including strokes), which is more than cancer and COVID-19 combined. ...

Heart failure used to be considered a one-way street toward infirmity, chronic illness, and ultimately death, in half of the cases, within five years. But a new study published this week shows that a plant-based diet can dramatically improve outcomes and even reverse symptoms in cases of heart failure, which is encouraging to say the least. ...

If you have not noticed, it has been a war out there for a decade. Specifically over fat. After nearly 50 years of science concluding that foods rich in saturated fats–like meats, cheeses, poultry, butter, and lard–cause heart disease, the public has been confused over and over, by stories such as TIME magazine covers, and many online posts celebrating that “Butter is Back.” Did scientists get ..