Low fat diets are bad for your health. If low fat diets really worked then there would be millions of slimmer, happier people around. The media and food industry have given fat such a bad name that people are terrified to eat it, thinking they will put ...

Investigators have conducted numerous studies on the relationship between coffee, cholesterol and heart disease. Results have been inconclusive, however. Some of these studies show that when it comes to coffee and cholesterol, much depends on how the coffee is prepared. Boiled coffee, like the kind drunk in ...

Perhaps the simplest way to take advantage of apples’ power to cure blood cholesterol is to eat the raw fruit itself, say experts. “A fresh apple is a great snack food,” says Evelyn Tribole, R.D., a dietitian in Beverly Hills, California, and author of Healthy Home style ...

A low fat diet can also he an important tool in preventing or cure  diabetes disease, a metabolic disorder that affects over 13 million Americans. In people with diabetes, the pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin, a hormone that’s needed to control blood sugar levels in your body and to ...

Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements Vitamins C and E. Diabetics given vitamin C, one gram per day for three months, had an 18 percent reduction in HbA1c; high HbA1c is an indicator of poor long term blood sugar control. Elderly diabetics significantly improve glucose control after ...

Diabetes mellitus Type I, also called insulin dependent diabetes, is a metabolic disease in which the body does not produce enough insulin. The condition,  which used to be called juvenile diabetes, generally begins before the age of 30. With diabetes mephitus Type II, also called non insulin ...

You may have had your level of blood cholesterol measured as less than 200 mg/dl, the top of the range deemed desirable by the Adult Treatment Panel of the National Institutes of Health. If so, your risk of coronary heart disease will depend on the presence of ...

If you live in the United States, you are much more likely to develop diabetes than if you lived in any of the Mediterranean countries, South Africa, or Asia. Why? Diet and lifestyle are critical factors, Americans eat too much of the wrong food, too little of the ...

Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found among the lipids (fats) in the bloodstream and in every cell. Our bodies use cholesterol for form cell membranes and some hormones. Too much cholesterol in the blood, however, may lead to coronary heart disease and or stroke....

Without insulin, cells cannot take up glucose, so it accumulates in the bloodstream to reach three to four times the normal level. This elevated level of blood sugar leads to a number of effects than can harm a diabetic's health. One problem in diabetes is that diabetics ...