Posts tagged "cholesterol"
February is Heart Health month and cardiovascular disease (which includes coronary heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, and stroke) is a global killer. Approximately 84 million Americans suffer from cardiovascular disease with approximately 655,000 deaths annually from heart disease alone. By...
Although vegetable oils have a healthy sounding name, trust me, they are anything but! They are also NOT made from vegetables. As you might already know, vegetable oils actually come from any combination of corn oil, soybean oil, canola oil,...
The Paleo Diet has long been a proponent of including well-sourced naturally occurring fat in your eating plan. These fats are important for supporting immune function, insulating internal organs, regulating body temperature, maintaining healthy skin and hair, and aiding in the absorption...
Over the past few decades, red meat has been increasingly blamed for many diseases and is the chief contributor to certain early death. Meat, we have been told, is associated with obesity, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure...
For decades it was believed that eating eggs and other foods high in dietary cholesterol will clog your arteries and increase the risk of heart disease. Initially maligned as harmful, in 2013, the American Heart Association did admit that dietary...