Obesity 'Bad For Brain' By Hastening Cognitive Decline

Being overweight is not just bad for waistlines but for brains too, say researchers who have linked obesity to declining mental performance.

Experts are not sure why this might be, but say metabolic changes such as high blood sugar and raised cholesterol are likely to be involved. Obesity has already been tipped as a risk factor for dementia.

Rosie O’Donnell Embraces Plant-Based Diet After Heart Attack

After Rosie O’Donnell’s recent health scare, it looks like she is making some serious changes to her diet; not only to better her health, but to transform her life for the future.  It seems O’Donnell is taking her heart attack seriously by switching to a plant-based diet. Here’s what she revealed on Twitter today, “nine days later – nine pounds lost – eating a plant based diet #likebillclinton…

Stand Against 'Sitting Disease'

On a grand scale, the chair-sentence (being sentenced to too much sitting) of modern American offices has been associated with marked increases in diabetes, blood pressure problems, cancer, heart attacks and death. Most likely, if you are working in an American office, you are sitting too much. Currently, the default at work is sitting. We need the default to be standing!

Meat Increases Stroke Risk

Red and processed meats increase the risk of stroke, according to a new meta-analysis published by the American Heart Association. Stroke risk increased 11 percent for each serving of red meat consumed as part of a person’s daily diet, and 13 percent for each daily serving of processed meat.

Egg Yolks Linked To Heart Disease

Results of a new Canadian study show that the build-up of carotid plaque, a waxy substance that clogs blood vessels and which is linked to reduced blood flow and higher risk of cardiovascular disease, is greater the more egg yolks people eat.  Results also show that the carotid plaque area grew with age after 40, but increased exponentially with the number of years of smoking and egg yolk eating.

Fish Oil Doesn't Lower Heart Risk in Diabetics

The New England Journal Of Medicine reports that people with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes who took omega-3 fatty acid supplements were no less likely to die or suffer a heart attack or stroke than patients who did not take the supplements.  Last April, a review of studies involving more than 20,000 patients with heart disease found the same thing.

New York Trans Fat Ban Is Working, Study Finds Consumption Is Down

Public health officials had zeroed in on trans fats because they pose a uniquely potent health risk. Adding fewer than 4.5 grams of them to a 2,000-calorie daily diet can increase the risk of coronary heart disease by 23%, studies have found.