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Coffee Vs. Heart Disease, Stroke, Longevity: The World’s Favorite Morning Drink Has More Good News

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Coffee Vs. Heart Disease, Stroke, Longevity: The World’s Favorite Morning Drink Has More Good News
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Coffee Vs. Heart-Failure & Stroke. Everyone’s Favorite Drink For A Reason?:
We all start out doing things basically from some kind of superstition.

It’s worked before & recommended, so we follow-along without knowing too much about why.

A lot of these guidelines apply to not just the straight-and-narrow path to success,

But also about health of all kinds.

As a clever doctor I know once said about his first freshman lecture in school, “The first thing they tell you is that half of what they are about to teach is wrong. The second thing they tell you is they don’t know which half.”…

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Walnuts And Heart Health: Unexpected Benefits That Begin With The Magic Of Your Gut-Instinct

Filed Under: Nutrition

Walnuts And Heart Health: Unexpected Benefits That Begin With The Magic Of Your Gut-Instinct
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Walnuts & Your Heart. A Strange Benefit That Starts Elsewhere:
When people talk about Nutrition, a lot of times it just seems to deal with the basics.

But here at HT, we are all about trying to go for the extra few percent that might make a big difference over time.

And along with the researchers who study it, that means hunting for small benefits in overlooked places.

This is nowhere better-exemplified than the search for SuperFoods.

And though similar evidence has come before, a PSU team discovered even stranger proof that adding nuts to your diet might just be a small miracle…

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Blueberries And Heart Health: Nature’s Superfood Rocks You Like A Tiny Blue Hurricane

Filed Under: Nutrition

Blueberries And Heart Health: Nature’s Superfood Rocks You Like A Tiny Blue Hurricane
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Blueberries & Heart Health, The Little Blue “Pills” That Could!:
Many of the improvements people try to make are to modify things they already do.

But as advanced as we are in the western world, we seem to make lots of mistakes with Diet.

And so the crazy health-hackers out there like us sometimes look for the opposite-extreme: Superfoods, like we found out before with nuts.

Well, we can add another amazing benefit to one of the traditional superfoods we’ve heard about for awhile, because if East Anglia’s work about Blueberries is right, they could be a lifesaver…

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Eggs Vs. Your Heart Health: Eating One A Day Might Not Be Such A Cardio-Bomb After All

Filed Under: Nutrition

Eggs Vs. Your Heart Health: Eating One A Day Might Not Be Such A Cardio-Bomb After All
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Eating Eggs And Heart-Health, The Research Changes Again:

Diet recommendations have an unfortunate history of moving all-over the place.

Which is odd, because we’ve been eating to stay alive and healthy, you’d think scientists could get it right.

Nowhere is this more true than for individual food-items, like an Egg.

We used to think they were fine. Then we were told they were heart-disease hand-grenades.

But some researchers in China just came out with an interesting case for them not being so bad after-all…

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Apple Watch 4: The Next Step In Digital Health Future With Heart Monitor, Big-Data Insights [Video]

Filed Under: Gadgets, Video

Apple Watch 4: The Next Step In Digital Health Future With Heart Monitor, Big-Data Insights [Video]


Apple’s New Watch Refines Health-Features With ECG Heart Monitor:
So when Apple originally rolled-out the watch with the heart-rhythm measuring feature, it was greeted with a little skepticism,

That was because many wrist-based health devices can end-up being less than perfectly-accurate.

From calories-burned by exercise, all the way to questions about serious measurements like heart rhythms.

But this time, Apple’s taken the next step by integrating big data and better sensors that foreshadow the future of health, starting with your heart…

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