Heart disease 'doubles' despite low fat diets - Figures suggest that heart disease in the United States has more than doubled, despite a drive to low fat, cholesterol lowering diets. ...

Weight loss and low fat diets - One of the major risk factors for osteoporosis is being too thin. Once the ovaries stop producing oestrogen, a woman's body keeps on making small amou...

Low cholesterol levels increase mortality - Lowering serum cholesterol levels may actually increase the risk of death from stroke, recent research suggests. ...

Cholesterol lowering - The statin 'wonder' drugs - Statins are the new wonder drugs now used to prevent everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's. But new evidence from a Finnish doctor shows that s...

Heart disease - Have you ever wondered why the French are carefree about tobacco smoking and wine consumption? Their diet is high in sugars and fats, and vegetarianis...

Cholesterol lowering: - Diet is as good as a statin - Your cholesterol levels are a little on the high side. Almost without thinking, your doctor reaches for his pad to write a prescription for a statin...

Causes of heart disease - It’s not too controversial to suggest that one of the chief causes of the epidemic of heart disease in the West is the industrialisation of our food s...

Hibernating: one riddle of heart disease - General practitioners are in a good position to spot major failings of the medical options available to us. High on the list is the inadequate way we...