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Posts tagged cardiovascular disease

The Little Known Effects of Smoking One or Two Cigarettes a Day

Out with your friends for the weekend and you decide to have a smoke. It’s just one cigarette and probably have a couple more since most of them are smoking, thinking it will not cause you serious health problems because you are only smoking for the weekend. People choose to be “occasional” or “social” smokers [...]

What is American Heart Association Diet? Myths & Facts about AHA Diet

The American Heart Association Diet The goal of the American Heart Association (AHA) diet is to prevent heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases. The AHA specifically aims to reduce hypertension and elevated blood cholesterol. The American Heart Association diet also aims to reduce a person’s excess weight with a selection of foods that are [...]

Signs and Symptoms of DHEA Hormonal Imbalance

What is DHEA? DHEA, or dehydroepiandrosterone, is popularly known as the “mother hormone,” in medical circles as it has the ability to produce various hormones on demand like estrogen, progesterone, cortisone, and testosterone. A steroid hormone, DHEA is produced in large quantities in your body and contributes significantly towards your good health. Moreover, studies have [...]

How Stress Hormones Can Make You Sick

Have you ever wondered why, despite the advances in medicine and medical technologies these days, a lot of people still get sick? One of the reasons is that we live in an age where the expectations to perform well are very high. Also, everything moves so fast wherever we may be, be it in school [...]

Extreme Steroid Use: Affects & Consequences

Steroids can provide some benefits that will give athletes a competitive edge. It allows them to train for longer periods and at higher intensities than normal. Plus, steroids can help reduce downtime for healing. Whether or not you want to consider that an unfair advantage, the real dangers of steroids is when they are used [...]

Most Common Diseases and Health Problems That Are Caused by Obesity and Being Overweight

Obesity is generally a clinical condition that poses health risks. Obesity is storage of excessive fat in the body which is measure by the body mass index. In medical sense, obesity is bad because there is no movement of calorie from the body. People become obese when they lack exercise and takes in too much [...]

Steroid Testing: A Layman’s Guide To Steroids

Anabolic steroids, also known as anabolic-androgenic steroids or AAS, are a class of steroid hormones related to the hormone testosterone which is known to build muscle tissue & to cause the development of male secondary sex characteristics. However, testosterone in its natural form has a half life of only about ten minutes in the body. [...]

Testosterone Levels: How Do They Change Over Time?

There is increasing evidence that some men go through hormonal changes as they age. The most common hormone attributed to these male hormonal changes, often called male menopause, is testosterone. Most of the testosterone (98%) is bound to proteins in plasma, leaving only a small amount of free hormone. Testosterone production is regulated by gonadotropin [...]

CRP Tests: An Overview

CRP is the ‘C-Reactive Protein’ which is produced by the liver & released in the blood to chase the goose down! It is basically a marker/ signal for the body which tells us that something, deep inside, has gone haywire! It is a major part of the inflammatory response which our body produces to combat [...]

Coronary Heart Diseases

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), commonly known as coronary artery disease (CAD), atherosclerotic heart disease or ischemic heart disease, is a result of formation of cholesterol plaques on the inner side of the arterial (type of blood vessels) walls that supply oxygen and nutrients to the myocardium (heart muscles). The plaque often narrows the arteries blocking [...]