On AlterNet: heart disease

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "heart disease"

Seven Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 6, 2011.

Supply-driven marketing not only turns the nation into pill-popping hypochondriacs, it distracts from Pharma's drought of real drugs for real medical problems.

Streisand: Why Heart Disease Is Treated Like a Boys' Club

Barbra Streisand, Huffington Post. November 23, 2010.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in this country--but it's still treated like a male disease. The singer and activists explains how to change this imbalance.

There Is a Way to Help Avoid Heart Disease and Diabetes: You Are What You Eat!

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.

How Eating Steak, Cake and Butter Can Make You Live Longer

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.

Eating Meat Is Not Natural

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. June 15, 2009.

Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.

Will We Still Eat Meat, Drink Milk, and Fry Eggs in 2109?

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. June 8, 2009.

The world will be a much better place in 100 years if we rethink the way we eat.

New Public Database Reveals First-Hand Accounts of How Toxic Burn Pits Are Making U.S. Troops Sick

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."

Want to Live Longer? Start Laughing More

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.

The Bad Science That Created the Cholesterol Con

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)

The Cholesterol Con -- Where Were the Doctors?

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?

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 12, 2007.

Author Gary Taubes challenges common myths about obesity and explains why Atkins might well have been right.

A Cure for Snoring?

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.