All the blood of the body goes through the heart twice a minute and a red blood corpuscle travels miles in its lifetime of a few weeks. Figuring on my pad, I found that it is not unusual for an elderly heart to have pumped half a billion quarts in its busy career, and the [...]

While most studies have focused on male heart patients, women can expect the potential for reversing heart disease as well. We now have the proof! In a trial lasting 26 months, Dr John Kane and his colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco studied 41 women and 31 men with dangerously high levels [...]

Since the 1980s, public attention has been drawn to the importance of cholesterol as a risk factor. Unfortunately, the mass media also provided a forum for a few nay-sayers who maintained that diet and cholesterol reduction would do little to prevent heart attacks. With the evidence we now have at our disposal, that was akin [...]