Health's A ChoiceTips on Taking Control of Your Health

A study at the Univeristy of Laval in Canada showed that if you increase your fish oil (DHA) you can reduce the extent of damage following a stroke by 25 %. In the study they fed  mice a diet rich in DHA for three months significantly reduced the severity of a stroke. “The consumption of [...]

Since February is Healthy Heart Month I wanted to talk a bit about the common drug prescribed to many people to lower cholesterol, Statins.  Cardiovascular disease is a growing epidemic in this country is a top killer not just in this country but worldwide. Estimated costs of treating heart disease in the US will go [...]

You may have heard that taking a baby Aspirin a day  is suppose to be a preventative for heart attacks?  Many American pop Aspirin just like it is a vitamin.After all does your body have an aspirin shortage? Of course not! Taking an aspirin a day is simply medical folklore. You have been conned by [...]

Statins – those ubiquitous drugs used to lower cholesterol levels – are big business! Over 20 million Americans are currently being treated with statin drugs at a cost that runs into billions of dollars every year. Some of my cardiologist friends are so convinced that statin drugs prevent death from heart attacks that they have [...]

If you have been looking for natural approaches for lowering your cholesterol, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about plant stanols and sterols lately. Just what are plant stanols and sterols and why does the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommend them as a natural approach for lowering cholesterol? Stanols and sterols are natural substances [...]

Did you know that Atherosclerosis is reversible? I bet your doctor has not mentioned that to you the last time you saw him for a check up. However, a recent editorial about resveratrol that appeared in the recent issue of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Just as astonishingly, the editorial was written by [...]