On AlterNet: heart disease
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "heart disease"
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. October 31, 2009.
A plant-based diet is both preventative and healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health.
Janet Paskin, Ode. July 27, 2009.
For more than three decades, we've been told that fatty foods are deadly. But new research suggests that fat can be good for you.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. June 15, 2009.
Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. June 8, 2009.
The world will be a much better place in 100 years if we rethink the way we eat.
Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. April 3, 2009.
"Two months in, everyone was coughing up black stuff. Three months, in my black stuff started to include blood."
Roger Dobson, The Independent. December 25, 2008.
A good chuckle doesn't just cheer us up. Doctors are discovering that it can ease pain and even help fight disease.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. March 3, 2008.
The war against cholesterol has become a profitable cottage industry. But the science behind it has more than a few gaps. (Part two in a series)
Maggie Mahar -- BAD, DON'T USE, Health Beat. February 29, 2008.
For years, medical studies have challenged the efficacy of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Why are we just hearing about this now?
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 12, 2007.
Author Gary Taubes challenges common myths about obesity and explains why Atkins might well have been right.
Esther Walker, The Independent UK. December 3, 2007.
Snoring is a health hazard, as well as a marriage wrecker. But few sufferers know it can be cured.
