Your Healthy Heart

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• Having a Heart Attack? Not on a Weekend

  Posted Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 8:01 pm PDT

  Most hospitals provide only emergency or urgent care on weekends and reduce their total staff as well as the number of available experts to do…

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• Quiz: Your Heart-Health Nutrition Knowledge

  Posted Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 3:21 am PDT

  This heart-health quiz will give you an idea of how well you're keeping up with the latest heart-health diet information.

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• Finding the Trans Fats

  Posted Tue, Sep 11, 2007, 9:53 am PDT

  Trans fats are the unhealthiest kind of fat because they raise LDL cholesterol and lower protective HDL cholesterol.

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• Lifelong Low LDL Cholesterol: Are You Off the Hook?

  Posted Mon, Sep 10, 2007, 11:20 pm PDT

  Some people are fortunate enough to have an uncommon genetic variant that speeds the removal of harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from the blood.

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• Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat Diets

  Posted Sun, Sep 09, 2007, 4:52 am PDT

  Will the debate about the relative virtues of low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets for weight loss never end?

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• Assessing Your Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

  Posted Fri, Sep 07, 2007, 1:26 pm PDT

  Are there accurate ways to predict the likelihood that you will have, or die from, a heart attack or stroke in the near future?

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• Waist-to-Hip Ratio vs. BMI: What's the Better Heart Disease Predictor?

  Posted Thu, Sep 06, 2007, 4:29 pm PDT

  Up to now, BMI has been the time-honored measure of the coronary risk associated with overweight and obesity. However, data from INTERHEART has shown…

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• How Hard Should You Exercise?

  Posted Wed, Sep 05, 2007, 4:32 pm PDT

  When it comes to exercising, the trick is to work out hard enough to produce heart-healthy benefits and yet not so fiercely that you do yourself harm.…

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• Know the Latest Recommendations to Protect Your Heart

  Posted Thu, Aug 23, 2007, 3:10 am PDT

  See how many of these lifestyle and nutritional recommendations you already follow and how you can creatively incorporate others into your daily…

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• Diabetes Ups Heart Disease Risk 15 Years Earlier

  Posted Tue, Jul 24, 2007, 9:57 pm PDT

  Did you know that the risk of atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries) and its associated risks - heart disease, stroke, and peripheral artery…

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