Turn Back the Clock on Aging Bones
A secret ingredient in peanuts and red grapes could be your ticket to stronger, more youthful bones. This incredible compound may help you avoid fractures so you can lead the life you want. Grape skins, grapes, peanuts, and red wine all contain resveratrol, a phytonutrient already famous for its ability to protect your heart.
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5 Awesome Ways to Eat Avocados — and Cut Your Cholesterol
It’s amazing what you can do with an avocado. And what an avocado can do for you.
This buttery-tasting fruit slashed the bad cholesterol in obese and overweight individuals, found a small study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Doctors placed all participants on three healthy diets to lower cholesterol. While all three diets reduced cholesterol, the participants who ate a Haas avocado daily reaped the biggest benefits. And if you lower your cholesterol, you cut your risk of having a stroke.
Cocoa makes the heart grow fonder
Cocoa makes the heart grow fonder
Chocolate and hearts go hand in hand, and not just on Valentine’s Day. A little chocolate every day will keep your heart beating for years to come.
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Health & Healing Heart/Cholesterol/Blood Pressure
Lower blood pressure and cholesterol with everyday fruit
Grapes are a handy, lip-smacking snack you can buy pretty much year-round. And you’ll want to do just that, not only for their mouth appeal, but because adding them to your diet can help you lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Brain & Memory Cancer Diabetes & High Blood Pressure Health & Healing Heart/Cholesterol/Blood Pressure
