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JANUARY 2006
ANY DAY NOW, after investing
30,000 hours in research and
testing, Kraft Foods will introduce
an Oreo cookie that contains
no trans fat.
The company, like other
food manufacturers, has
been scrambling to
meet a Jan. 1…
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FEBRUARY 2005
But evidence proves elusive for cancer-preventing effects of
YOUR HEART LOVES fruits
and vegetables, according to a
multiyear study of more than
100,000 participants conducted
by the Harvard School of Public
Health. Researchers found that the more
total fruits and vegetables participants
ate, the less their cardiovascular risk.…
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MARCH 2007
IF YOUR BELLY enters the room before the rest of you, a
new study finds, you may be headed for the cardiac ward.…
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MAY 2007
IF YOU’RE A WOMAN age 65 or
older, new American Heart Association
prevention guidelines suggest
talking with your doctor about
the potential benefits and risks of
daily low-dose aspirin therapy to protect
your heart—even if you’re healthy
or at low risk of heart disease.…
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AUGUST 2005
IF YOU’RE TRYING to eat more fish for
your heart’s sake, forget the fish sticks
and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and skip
Long John Silver’s. A new study suggests
that fried fish and the like not only
don’t help protect your heart, but may
actually increase your risk of cardiac
woes. Only fish that’s been broiled,
baked or prepared in a similar way
seems linked to reduced risk of heart
disease, according to research recently
presented at a meeting of the American
Heart Association.…
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MAY 2007
HERE’S ANOTHER REASON for women to watch
their cholesterol levels: A new analysis of data from
the Women’s Health Study has found that women
with elevated cholesterol levels had twice the risk for
ischemic stroke compared to women with the lowest
cholesterol levels,…
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NOVEMBER 2007
Worried about your risk of heart disease?
Get out the tape measure.
A new study indicates that your
waist-to-hip ratio is a better predictor of
atherosclerosis risk than waist circumference
alone or even the highly touted Body
Mass Index (BMI).…
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MAY 2008
Dairy does a body’s blood-pressure
good—as long as the dairy is low-fat.
That’s the conclusion of a new
analysis of data on almost 30,000 participants
in the observational Women’s
Health Study, which found that an
increased intake of low-fat dairy products
reduced women’s risk of developing
hypertension. Women with the greatest
average low-fat dairy consumption were
11% less likely to develop high blood
pressure than those consuming the
least.…
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JULY 2008
EVEN IF
you don’t
have high
blood pressure,
you
might want to try
the Dietary
Approaches to
Stop Hypertension
(DASH) eating
plan. New results
from the Nurses’
Health Study—
based on an
impressive 24
years of follow-up—show that women
whose diets most closely resembled the
DASH plan were 24% less likely to
develop heart disease and 18% less
likely to have a stroke.…
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OCTOBER 2009
That bowl of healthy breakfast cereal you ate this morning
could help you fight heart failure—the leading cause of
hospitalization among older Americans. So could the
broccoli you’ll have with dinner. Eating breakfast cereal and
consuming plenty of vegetables and fruits were two of six
lifestyle factors identified in a new study as protective against
heart failure in men.…
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