Posts Tagged ‘heart attacks’
Fashion magazines with beautiful models sporting body accentuating clothes are everywhere. Men and women alike look at these and wonder how they too can look like that.
Some believe that the reason these people are in the magazines is because they already had the nicely toned bodies. And through years of hard work have achieved it and are not reaping the benefits.
Yes, having wonderful abs is now all the rage in the fitness world. Instructors and dietitians at the gyms have turned flat abs into a multi-million dollar business.
There has recently been an addition to the diet rage, and a new sensation. Straight from the Amazonian rain forest come the Acai berry. It’s a power-packed little berry, that has both a cleansing and slimming effect on the body.
If there is bodywide inflammation, you must reckon it a warning signal, as it can cause some arterial disease or heart attacks. But thank God vitamin C is there that can be very effective to soothe your arteries and heart.
Yes, aside from many other health benefits, vitamin C seems quite effective to lower down CRP (C- reactive protein) level that serves as a marker of bodywide irritation and inflammation.
According to some studies, there is a link between the bodywide inflammatory processes and heart disease. If C-reactive protein levels go up, it may indicate that you may have to suffer from some heart disease in the near future. Results of a study show that people who have higher levels of CRP can decrease these levels by up to 25% if they take 1000mg of vitamin C every day.
US scientists have found why heart attacks and strokes occur in the early hours most often.
According to the Emory University researchers daily rhythms in the activity of those cells which line blood vessels can be the key factor in this connection.
The researchers found that these cells activity was at its lowest during the early hours of the morning.
The study has been presented to an American Heart Association conference and it seems to suggest that low cells activity make c less able to relax and it raises the risk of problems.
Endothelial progenitor cells from the bone marrow are considered playing an important role in maintaining the lining of the blood vessels.
