Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure Congestive heart failure is a very serious health condition that is often caused by heart disease. The arteries that surround the heart feed oxygen to the heart that is crucial to the circulation of blood throughout the body. The blood that the heart circulates throughout the body also carries oxygen [...]
How to Lower Blood Pressure without Medication Hypertension is a very serious illness that often leads to death. Unfortunately, even with medication and the proper diagnosis, hypertension often become deadlier in number with daily stress levels, poor diets, and general lack of rest. The only chance of beating hypertension is to lower blood pressure safely [...]
Three Major Risk Factors for Heart Disease Although most heart attacks occur later in the life cycle (55 percent after 65 years of age), the processes responsible begin quite early, often before adolescence. Atherosclerosis is responsible for about 80 percent of all heart attacks. It is the result of interactions between genetic factors and lifestyle [...]
How Does Obesity Affect Your Health The current perception of obesity is that it is a chronic disease like hypertension or diabetes rather than a simple failure of willpower. Data indicate that Americans once again are gaining weight. The number of overweight males has risen from 24 percent to 32 percent, and the number of [...]
Common Health Problems Caused by Unhealthy Imbalance of Your Body Because all body tissue is made of cells, the negative effects they undergo from an unhealthy imbalance can be found anywhere in the body. Here we look at some typical stress-related health problems but there are many more that are generated or influenced by upsetting [...]