This is the perfect time of year to pick blueberries—either in the forests of New England or in the aisles of your local farmers’ market. Not only are blueberries good for your taste buds, but [...]
Category: Heart Health
New study spotlights four more outrageous dangers of statin drugs
New research links cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to four more deadly outcomes. I’ll tell you all about these outrageous new findings in a moment. But first, let’s back up… I first learned [...]
The “short” answer about your heart disease risk
A new study published last month in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) found short men and women run a greater risk of developing heart disease. This interesting study caught [...]
Put eggs back on your plate
It amazes me how often I hear this question: “So–are eggs are okay to eat now?” The answer is YES. It’s always been yes. Eggs and many other foods high in cholesterol–such as dairy, [...]
“New” findings about stress and high blood pressure hid in plain sight for 40 years
Many heart experts claim 90 percent of high blood pressure cases are “essential,” meaning they’re somehow inherent, inborn, and unavoidable. But that’s absurd. Stress is the No.1 hidden cause of [...]
Simple, inexpensive snack lowers cardiovascular death rate by 38 percent
If you want an easy way to lower your cardiovascular risk, just eat a handful of nuts each day. And it doesn’t just have to be expensive walnuts, almonds or cashews, as I’ll explain in a moment. [...]
Eat more butter to lower your heart disease risk
I don’t want to keep beating a dead horse–or cow. But I just have to keep coming back to the government’s recent admission that their decades-long advice to cut dietary fat and cholesterol [...]
My surprisingly simple advice about salt and heart disease
This week, I reported on some emerging science that should finally crush the old myths about fat and heart disease. But there’s one topic about heart health I haven’t touched much on this week: [...]
Low amounts of key vitamin could lead to heart disease
My colleague Dr. Kilmer McCully discovered that high homocysteine, caused by low B vitamin intake, is one of the very real causes of heart disease. But the cholesterol cartel silenced and exiled [...]
Five simple steps to prevent heart disease
Yesterday, I told you how the U.S. government based its long-lived war against fat on a big, fat medical myth. In fact, at the time the government declared war on fat 40 years ago, not one [...]