Eating fatty fish once a week reduces men’s risk of heart failure

Eating salmon or other fatty fish just once a week helped reduce men’s risk of heart failure, a recent study shows. The researchers recorded details of the men’s diet and tracked the men’s outcome through Swedish inpatient hospital registers and cause-of-death registers. The study revealed that the men who ate fatty fish (herring, mackerel, salmon, whitefish, and char) once a week were 12 percent less likely to develop heart failure, compared with men who ate no fatty fish. Full Story : Physorg.com…..

Excercise After Heart Failure

Scientists believe that regular exercise is safe for people who survive heart failure. It lowers their risk of death and another hospitalization. Studies shows that heart failure patients who regularly do moderate physical activity report to have a higher quality of life compared to patients who receive medical therapy only.

Vitamins and Cardiovascular Disease

A recent study on has cast doubt on the effectiveness of high doses of vitamins to help prevent heart disease in men. The study was conducted on 14 000 doctors. The physicians participated in the study for almost a decade and took high doses of C and E. The study concluded there was no proof that either C or E made a difference in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Vitamin C Can Treat Cancer

New research with mice proved that doses of vitamin C given intravenous could reduce the size of cancerous tumors in people. The findings are not proved in humans yet, but the combination with other drugs may cure cancer, the researchers said.

Vitamin C has been one of the most respected of all vitamins, and it is used to treat many ills, from colds to heart disease. But scientists are working hard to prove that it also can cure cancer.

Birth Weight Can Predict Future Health

Boys born small develop poor health later in life, say scientists. But no such problem was seen in low birth weight girls. When they tested child’s response to stress, problem in vascular resistance was observed. Vascular resistance is a property of blood vessels which makes it harder for the blood to be pumped through. This can lead to blood pressure problems in adulthood. After going through public speaking and mental arithmetic test designed to make them nervous, and increase heart-rate, boys who born smaller were more likely to have higher vascular resistance than those born bigger.

Sunlight Helps You Live Longer?

There is a relationship between the low vitamin D levels and deaths from heart disease. Patients with the lowest vitamin D in their blood were two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels of vitamin D. But largest doses of vitamin D pills or sun exposure can be dangerous and can lead to skin cancer. Low vitamin D levels may be reflected by age due to the lack of physical activity and other lifestyle factors.