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Following our previous article on ‘swine flu, influenza and heart disease‘, we’ve decided to closely monitor and track the global progression of the swine flu virus, and inform you regularly of the relevant facts and breaking [...]

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We’ve all heard of the expression ‘he/she died of a broken heart’. But this old saying may be closer to the truth than you think. ‘Broken heart’ is a colloquial expression that can mask many [...]

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We are facing the possibility of a global influenza pandemic due to an outbreak of a type of flu known as swine flu that has recently broken out in parts of Mexico, and is now [...]

For many years we’ve been told by scientists and dieticians that too much salt is bad for us, and causes high blood pressure (hypertension), and damages the walls of our arteries (atherosclerosis), leading to coronary heart disease and stroke. However, new research from Loyola University in Chicago may have to cause us to rethink.
Apparently, salt [...]

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By Ann-Marie Waters, Associate Editor.
According to the ‘World Health Organisation’ any form of unwelcome sound is noise pollution. Until recently the damaging effects of noise pollution on one’s health was unclear but new data concludes [...]

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By Ann-Marie Waters, Associate Editor.
Until recently, little was understood regarding the psychological effects of suffering a stroke. According to a recent study, the first of it’s kind, carried out by Newcastle and Durham Universities from [...]

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High blood pressure is not known as the silent killer for nothing, as although it is a primary cause of heart disease, heart attack and stroke, it does not usually produce any symptoms that are [...]

By Ann-Marie Waters, Associate Editor.

The evidence that garlic and onions – considered to be two of the most highly pungent vegetables goes back for centuries. In Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, both vegetables were used to treat heart disease. Clay models of garlic bulbs were found in an Egyptian tomb dated from 3750 BC!
Recent scientific [...]