Snoring Woes: Cures And Remedies

Almost anyone can be held guilty, at one time or the other, for snoring. Although occasional instances of snoring may be innocuous, the more persistent kind can spell havoc for the quantity and quality of sleep. Which in turn leads to daytime fatigue, frayed tempers, and even health threats. Further, if your snoring unrelentingly scales the decibel ladder, you might end up evicted from the bedroom. This informative account identifies the different causes of snoring like obstructed nasal channels and incorrect sleep posture. Sometimes, snoring can be indicative of sleep apnea, a serious medical condition warranting immediate treatment. For those tied to wedlock, it might be a sensible option to not initiate heated exchanges with your partner or let resentment gain leeway because of a snoring problem. Before starting to think of ending your relationship, you could make a promising beginning by realizing that snoring is a physical problem. Plenty of cures exist, from lifestyle changes including consumption of certain food types and medicines, and throat exercises, to professional medical treatment, that can address your dilemma.

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Heart Matters: Abstain From Too Much Red Meat

Excessive consumption of red meat may actually drive up the risk of heart failure by 24 percent, finds a new American study. The study, the first of its kind to investigate the connection between red meat consumption and cardiac failure, comes as bad publicity for the meat industry, which is already reeling under negative attention from previous studies that confirm the link between the consumption of red meat and certain cancers. A possible cause for the adverse impact of red meat on cardiac health could be the presence of saturated fat and cholesterol content, which can increase the risks of hypertension and coronary heart disease. Although further confirmatory research is necessary to substantiate the claim, the study provides sufficient ground for those carnally inclined to consider other options. Not all of life's pleasures come without a cost; and where your heart is on the line, it pays to reduce your intake of red meat. Awareness of a certain risk is only half the story, the other half is definitive action to address the risk. The choice is yours as it always will be...

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Eating Chocolate Sparingly Means Better Cardiac Discipline

A new study, reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, which is a journal of the American Heart Association, shows that middle-aged and elderly Swedish women regularly eating a small amount of chocolate are less susceptible to cardiac failures. However, the quality of chocolate that these women ate came with higher density cocoa content, more like dark chocolate available in America. The study, spanning nine years and based on the participation of 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women, indicates, interestingly, that only women who consumed this high-quality chocolate in moderation benefited significantly. Others who were more indulgent didn't register as much improvement, possibly because of the extra calories gained from eating too much of these delicacies, according to Murray Mittleman, M.D., Dr.P.H., who led the study. It might be logically inferred that the higher cocoa content in Swedish chocolate is responsible for the improved cardiac health of these women. It may be noted in this context that, unfortunately, heart failure strikes about 1 percent of the American population aged over 65 and the threat hardly shows any signs of remission with each passing year...

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School Foods That Spell Health Disaster For Kids

Parents need to realize that proper care for their school going kids doesn't just mean providing blank notebooks, sharpened pencils, backpacks or a closetful of new clothes. What these children need as well is healthy and nutritious food made available for them while at school, according to Michael Roizen, MD, chief wellness officer and chair of the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. Hence, parents would do well to keep a watchful eye for junk food dished out to their dearies at school, keeping in mind that nothing much else qualifies as a better recipe for not only poor academic performance but also, more importantly, endangered health. Parents also should be aware of healthier alternatives that score better on the health as well as scholastic front. For instance, croissant breakfast sandwiches might be a convenient option for schools lacking kitchens. However, these prepackaged delicacies are more like a complete health disaster, considering that a single piece of croissant packs a 900 calorie punch and contains approximately 65 grams of saturated fat. Surely, your kids deserve better and only you can see that it happens...

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Anger Makes Way For Heart Problems

Are you susceptible to tempestuous tantrums? Well then - beware! Type A behavioral pattern creates fertile ground for heightened cardiac risk, including stroke, according to a new study published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers working at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Baltimore, a division of the National Institutes of Health, uncovered that people given to anger and aggressiveness evidenced greater thickness of the carotid arteries in the neck, which is responsible in a major way for a heart attack or stroke, in comparison to more plain sailing individuals. The study underlines the need to determine personality traits while screening patients for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in America, where heart attacks claim about 1.2 million and strokes 800,000 lives each year. Ultrasound imaging, used in measuring carotid artery and arterial wall thickness, showed that even young people displaying antagonistic inclinations were frightfully at risk from cardiac illnesses even if they weren't at risk from other factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. Clearly, a more fulfilling world awaits those willing to toss out their ire...

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Self Image Key Determinant Of Success In Weight Loss Programs

An expert, presenting recently at the American College of Sports Medicine's 14th-annual Health & Fitness Summit, stated that the key to achieving desirable results in weight-loss programs stems more from self-esteem and positive body image rather than the sophistication of such programs. The presentation, which was primarily intended for women, stressed on the need for healthy self image in order to achieve significant weight loss. It's necessary for women to cultivate a healthy attitude to life and self acceptance rather than worry unduly on the aesthetic demands of society for developing the correct lifestyle conducive to better weight management. The way you design your modus vivendi with regard to food, your social connectedness, and how you deal with issues concerning self-esteem defines, to a big extent, on whether you possess those desirable characteristics that guide you towards successful weight loss. More objectively, it's important to cultivate 11 skills for developing a healthy body image and self-esteem. What are these skills that you might unknowingly be missing out on? Read on...

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Weaponize Your Immune System Against Infections And Cancer With White Button Mushrooms

Although it was long known by researchers that certain types of mushrooms possess anti-tumor properties, only recently, a group of studies have shown that the widely available white button mushrooms (WBMs), or Agaricus bisporus, possess a unique capability to enhance the body's immune system. In spite of WBMs constituting about 90 percent of the total mushrooms consumed in America, its true nutritional significance was only realized in the last few years as a result of innovative animal and lab research conducted at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University. WBMs strengthen the immune system by stepping up the production of proteins that eliminate disease-causing pathogens. Because of the positive impact that these mushrooms have on the immune system cells called dendritic cells, which can make white blood cells known as T cells, they might play a major role in fighting cancer. Further, separate research, published in The Journal of Nutrition, suggests consuming 100 grams of WBMs per day would substantially lessen the chances of breast tumor in women.

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