Chocolate Lowers Cholesterol
	Since childhood, you’ve been hearing that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat, but now, a now a series of researches have been made to show the beneficial health effects of chocolate. There is only one condition though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even up to 60-75%. Thus, we're talking about dark chocolate, not milk chocolate. A new study carried out at the University of Illinois and published in the ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 02:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Too Many Eggs Can Kill the Men
	It is a vivid controversy: to eat or not to eat eggs. While a recent research has showed that consuming eggs reduces the risk of breast cancer in women by 24%, thanks to choline, a new one published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals that middle-aged men who eat seven or more eggs hurry up to their ... [read more >>]
	12 April 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Grief Can Kill You
	We often see this in the movies (or not only), but science proves it to be real. The commemoration of the death of a beloved person can kill you suddenly, especially if you are a man. Sudden death, in most cases triggered by arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat), can happen unexpectedly and often in less than one hour following the onset of symptoms, as a new study presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual meet ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Heart Does not Affect Sexual Satisfaction in Women
	Women experience lack of sexual satisfaction for various reasons: sex placed at the very bottom of their priorities list; lack of emotional implication; complexes about how they look; timidity or some drugs and antidepressants. But do not add the cardiovascular disease to this list, as signaled by a new study pub ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Alcohol Consumption Prolongs Your Life
	Total abstinence does not seem to be the way to a long life. A new research published in the "American Journal of Medicine" shows that indeed drinkers prolong their lives and chase away the danger of heart disease. Those who began drinking in middle age were 38% less likely to undergo a heart attack or other severe heart issues, compared to abstainers, even when overweight, diabetes, high blood pressure and other heart risks wer ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 15:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

An Unhappy Marriage Can Kill You
	It is well known that being lonely pays more for your health than living in an unhappy marriage. For example, for your blood pressure, as shown by a preliminary study published on-line in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. "That second finding is a surprise because prior studies have shown that married people tend to be healthier than singles. It would take further study to sort out what the results mean for long-term health," ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 15:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yak Cheese Is a Miracle
	Now, we have found the secret of the strong health of the Tibetan and Himalayan populations. It is in that woolly beast called yak. More precisely in its cheese. Cheese lovers have got a new target item, as a team of researchers from Nepal (a Himalayan state) and Canada has found that yak cheese has higher ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Five Suns and Aztec Human Sacrifices
	The Aztec Empire was conquered by Spaniards at the beginning of the 16th century, but the Nahuatl tradition still speaks about the Aztec tradition of the 5 Suns. The current Sun was preceded by 4 Suns, each one meaning a distinct temporal cycle. Thus, we are now in the fifth cycle. The First Sun, named Four Jaguars, shone on the sky during an epoch when the Earth was ruled by giants. It was buried by the collapse of the sky, ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Botox Injections Can Kill You!
	Botox injections employ the most dangerous naturally occurring toxin: the Botulinum toxin. It is the trademark of Clostridium botulinum bacterium and less than 2 kg (5 pounds) would be enough to wipe out the whole human population (the botulinum toxin is 40 million times more powerful than cyanide). But in extremely small amounts, this toxin has medical and cosmetic employments (under the more familiar name Botox). When the b ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Red Meat Attacks the Heart
	You may be an avid carnivorous, looking continuously for proteins, calcium and iron in the food, but here comes some bad news for you: people eating two or more servings of red meat daily are much more vulnerable to heart disease and diabetes. This is the result of a research published in the journal "Circulation," which connected this diet habit with a 25% higher risk of experiencing a group of conditions called metabolic, comp ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mystery Solved: How Can a Crocodile Eat a Cow at Once?
	Crocodiles do deserve they reputation: they hunt and eat everything, from fish and other small preys to buffalo and cattle; even lions were drawn and eaten by crocodiles. All this without mentioning the threat they pose to people. And a large meal can be enough for them for one year: crocodiles can ingest up to 23% of their body weight at once, including bones, teeth, hooves and all kind of stuff. Can you imagine an 80 kg (180-pound) man d ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FDA: iPods Don't Interfere with Pacemakers
	It has been proved several times in the past that certain devices which emit electro-magnetic waves can and will interfere with pacemakers. The ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MacBook Air, Earth, Water, Fire and... Heart!
	Why didn't I think of this? Ehrrr! The notebook's name is well engraved in my brain, I've watched Captain Planet - Helloo! Air, Earth, Wind, Water... Wait. They forgot Heart. Haa! I knew I still had something. So what if it's lame? They forgot to mentio ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 08:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Does a Big Belly Cause a Heart Attack?
	Big bellies (no matter if because of the beer or the junk food) represent a high risk of heart attacks and strokes. This was found by many researches, but no study could explain why the visceral fat boosts these health problems. This appears to be explained by a new research published in the journal "Circulation" and carried out by a team of the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center: inflammation around the visceral fa ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 8 Heart Diseases
	Hypertension, high cholesterol, diet, lack of exercising and smoking are factors favoring heart disease. 1. The coronary disease is the most common heart disease. It is caused by the obstruction of the coronary arteries carrying oxygenated blood to the heart's muscle. It can be caused by fat (especially cholesterol) deposits on the coronary arteries walls or by the thickening and hardening of their walls. Angina pectoris is a ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Issues About Blood and Circulation
	1. Blood has the role of transporting food and oxygen to the cells, and to remove toxic wastes, including carbon dioxide. An average human adult has 5 liters of blood which comprises about one liter of oxygen, a quantity which, in resting conditions, would be enough for 4 minutes (in case of intense effort, just 1 minute). Moreover, not all the oxygen is passed to the cells, the blood allowing the passing of a certain oxygen amount, but it ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 17:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Is Fish Good or Bad For Your Heart?
	Fish oil is the childhood nightmare for many of our grandparents. And while fish oil supplements could be recommended for some cardiac patients, others could experience negative effects, as found by a meta analysis carried out at St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The team analyzed data coming from researches made on subjects with implantable cardioverte ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Beating Lab Made Hearts!
	Broken feelings may not be repaired through engineering, but broken hearts can be. In fact, heart attack kills annually 50,000 people, only in US, and it is experienced by 550,000. A new research published in "Nature Medicine" and carried on at the University of Minnesota is the first ever to have built a beating heart tissue in the lab, through the process of decellularization, using dead rat and pig hearts. "The idea wo ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why a Little Alcohol Prolongs Your Life?
	Being a saint won't help you much. A little alcohol added to an active lifestyle may prolong your life. A new Danish research published in the "European Heart Journal" points that a little alcohol can lower your risk of heart disease. The study enrolled about 12,000 men and women, who have been followed up for about 20 years. During this time, 1,242 died from ischemic heart disease (IHD). Overall, those who did not drin ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bad Teeth Mean You're Gonna Have a Heart Attack
	In past times, infections were the main cause of human death. Now, in the western world, the cardiovascular disease is the leader, bypassing cancer. But while you may be aware that healthy food, exercising and quitting smoking maintain a healthy heart, you should also know that the health of your teeth also impact the likelihood of you having a heart attack. A new meta-analysis published in the "Journal of Periodontology" (JO ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Don't Worry! Or You're Gonna Die of Heart Attack!
	Bobby McFerrin is right. Manage your anger. Otherwise, you are very likely to die of heart attack. This is known. But it seems that nervous, worrying people are stalked by this as well. A new study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), reveals that longstanding anxiety boosts the likelihood of heart attack. "What we’re seeing is over and beyond what can be explained by blood pressure, obesity, ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 06:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Too Much or Less Sleep Can Kill You
	Lazy bone or hyperactive? If you do not sleep on average 7-8 hours per night, in the end both less or more than this could cut short your life, as found by a new research carried on at the University College London Medical School, in London, U.K., and published in the journal "SLEEP", revealing for the first time that a decrease and an increase in sleep duration are connected with higher mortality because of cardiovasc ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

7 Things About Heart and Blood Vessels
	1.All the blood vessels of the human body have a total length of 100,000 km (62,000 mi): they could encompass the Earth by 2.5 times. 2.The blood forms 8% of your body mass. For a man of 70kg (155 pounds), this means about 5.6 litters of blood. 3.The heart has the size of a fist and pumps daily about 9,500 litters of blood throughout the body. This is like lifting a weight of 10 tons to a height of 10 m (33 ft) every day! 4.The ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Minutes Of Staring at Boobs Daily Prolongs Man's Life by 5 Years...
	Listen, guys, now we know why Pamela Anderson made her transplants: to make us healthier. "Angels of mercy" like Jordan just prolong our life and Hugh Hefner knows it. A German research published in New England Journal of Medicine and Weekly World News said that men staring at women's breasts in fact prolong their lives with years. "Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female such ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Should We Have Sex? 20 Good Healthy Reasons
	Marvin Gaye knew very well what was singing with his "Sexual healing". Sex seems to be more than a hormonal discharge and some short moments of pure pleasure. Scientists show that sex is extremely beneficial for our health, while the lack of an active sex life might have negative effects. And masturbation is not a solution: blood prolactin levels in males and females after orgasm is 4 times higher in both sexes compared with the ... [read more >>]
	24 November 2007, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pulling Out Strong Hearts: An Aztec Medicinal Secret
	Now we know how the Aztecs had such vigorous hearts to be pulled out from the chests of the unfortunate victims as an offering to the gods. Their cardiac secret was salba or chia, a grain related to mint. A new Canadian research suggests that people with type 2 diabetes could decrease their cardiovascular risk by consuming whole grain salba originating from the Valley of Mexico, in a research published in Diabetes Care. The c ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 15 Effects That Coffee Has on Your Health
	Some are trying hard to show the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, others see it as the devil’s beverage. Others say it’s rather a bogus. Read on and decide for yourself who’s right! 1. Some say that the energy boosting effect of the morning coffee is only in your mind and you should sleep more. The caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms accumulating overnight, but does not make people more alert. Only people who do not regu ... [read more >>]
	10 November 2007, 07:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fasting Prolongs Life
	You may be fasting for religious, philosophical, or health reasons or just because you're bored, but this can indeed prolong life by protecting the heart. A new research found that the Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), who fast one day every month, display lower rates of heart disease than other Americans do, as presented by a new research at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2007 ... [read more >>]
	07 November 2007, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Onion Protects the Heart
	Perhaps western people die for a fistful of onions only in spaghetti, while in fact onion could prolong your life. A new research made at the British Institute of Food Research points to the fact that a diet rich in the chemicals called flavonoids decreases early signs of heart disease. This new research focused on the flavonoid called quercetin, encountered in tea, onions, apples and red wine. The research investigated the e ... [read more >>]
	06 November 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Biological View: What Do Dying People Feel?
	Have you ever wondered what a dying person feels? It sounds morbid, but science and accounts from lucky survivors have helped us make an idea about it. Still, only the dead know exactly how it feels and the sensations you experience at that moment. A report released by New Scienti ... [read more >>]
	22 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Smart Sunglasses Can 'Tell' Sport Performances and Heart Rate
	After smart fabrics, now we have smart sunglasses. These devices can display an athlete's performance and heart rate data in their peripheral vision and are a German-British product. The sunglasses, called "Informance", also visualize a stopwatch and heart rate at one edge. The components required to accomplish this come with only 7 extra-grams to the glasses' normal weight, significantly less than previou ... [read more >>]
	19 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Garlic Protect Your Heart?
	It may not be recommended to eat garlic before going on a date, but a new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has found it to be one of the best methods to decrease high blood pressure and defend yourself against cardiovascular disease. This protective effect could be due to the interaction between garlic chemicals and red blood cells. This makes red blood cells release hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which de ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 12 Severe Secondary Effects of Stress
	You eat the same food, do the same exercises and almost the same things and yet… something is different. Are extra pounds the reason why the metabolism slows down? No, it's the stress. The main negative effects of the stress are caused by the cortisol, secreted during tension moments. In the wild, we had to prepare our organism when confronted with a danger or a challenging situation. But the daily urban stress puts the body in too ma ... [read more >>]
	11 October 2007, 03:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Wrong Partner Will Send You to the Grave Earlier
	Indeed, the wrong partner may ‘send you earlier into the tomb’: relationships characterized by conflict and continuous arguments boost your risk of developing some heart disease. "An extensive body of research shows that social relations are associated with better health and reduced risks of cardiovascular disease. However, contradictory findings on the health benefits of structural support and the limited protective effect of marital ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 06:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

17 Reasons Why Having Sex Is Good for Your Health
	Sex seems to be more than a hormonal discharge and some short moments of pure pleasure. Scientists show that sex is extremely beneficial for our health, while the lack of an active sex life might have negative effects. But too much sex, can also be harmful: more than thrice a week it can weaken the immune system, making us vulnerable to infections... 1. Our mental and emotional health balance is clearly influenced by sex. Abstinence is ... [read more >>]
	04 October 2007, 15:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bad Teeth = Heart Attack
	You may induce a heart attack on those around you by displaying blackened and fouling teeth, but because of them you could also have a heart attack. A medical team in Marseille has discovered that those with the worst blockages in their arteries also displayed the most severe gum disease. Gum disease was known as an important factor for heart disease, but the new research is the first to reveal that the severity of a disease is interco ... [read more >>]
	11 September 2007, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Silent Wives - Four Times More Likely to Die!
	This is just what we needed: now they even have a scientific excuse for destroying our brains. Little by little. Women not trying to express verbally during marital discussions seem to present a four times higher risk of dying, because this can make them more vulnerable to depression and irritable bowel syndrome, as found by a new research. "We don't really know why women self-silence. It may be some type of pro ... [read more >>]
	30 August 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Much Suffering Causes a 'Broken Heart'?
	Can you think of some lyrics that are more common than "Don't break my heart" or "Unbreak my heart"? Still, a new research at the Northwestern University reveals that lovers, even when deeply in love, recover much better, almost immediately, following a breakup than they could have thought, experiencing much less distress than they had forecast before the end of the relationship. Even if love-crazed s ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 13:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 12 Most Frequent Issues That Kill Men
	Death comes a little bit differently if you're a man or a woman. Besides hormonal and anatomical causes, it’s the careless behavior of men what makes them live 7 years less than women. In the West, 70 % of men aged 30-50 are overweight and 40 % are too stressed. Race also counts: in the US, Blacks are more likely to die in an altercation or of HIV, Latinos in accidents, Native Americans of cirrhosis and other liver issues, while W ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 15:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Viagra: Just for Sex?
	The name ‘sildenafil citrate’ probably doesn’t say much to anybody, but its commercial name, Viagra, sounds like the most famous anti-impotence drug for men. But Viagra is also sold as a drug against pulmonary hypertension. Besides Viagra, there are also other two more recent ED (erectile dysfunction) drugs currently on the market: Levitra (containing the chemical vardenafil), and Cialis (based on tadalafil). They all have the same ope ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dead Man Returns Among The Living at His Own Funeral
	Voodoo stories are just stories; Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is just for entertainment; but this is a real case. You could imagine the shock lived by the relatives of an 87-year-old man from Chiayi County, Taiwan, when "the deceased" woke up at his own funeral. The Taiwanese's relatives and friends were in a Buddhist mourning hall, reciting Buddhist prayers for hours over the "dead" bod ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2007, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Polygraphs Are Not Reliable in Detecting Lies
	People are always searching for the supreme truth. But are the polygraphs a reliable tool in detecting lies? It seems that those who know how to lie have little to fear, as they can control their emotions. Instead, the victims could be the truthful people. Polygraphs were not developed as lie detectors; they just track down physiological expressions linked to lying in some people, like racing heart and sweaty fingers and everyth ... [read more >>]
	24 May 2007, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Reasons to Move
	After 35 years, you practice sports mainly to maintain your health and good shape. Why? For the following reasons: 1. Impotence. Frequent physical exercising helps prevent sexual dysfunction as it favors the blood flow. Especially after a certain age. 2. Cholesterol. Moving is the only drug that rises the "good" cholesterol. Movement stimulates the production of an enzyme which metabolizes both cholesterol and the triglycer ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Heart's Natural Pacemaker
	Looking at a nice girl/boy or running for a few miles, and your heart goes wild. But how does the heart recover its normal pace? Scientists have discovered how we "put the brakes" on a racing heartbeat. A team at the University of Illinois at Chicago has discovered how an enzyme acts on the heart's pacemaker to slow down the rapid heartbeat induced by the adrenaline's "fight-or-flight" reaction. Jus ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2007, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Need for Heart Transplant: Genetic Engineering Fixes Broken Hearts
	Dying of a broken heart is more common than you could think. In fact, heart attack is the main health problem in people over 65, affecting just in US about 5 million persons and 1 in 5 Americans dies of heart attack. The problem comes from the fact that heart cannot regenerate after birth: its cells lose reproductive ability. The damages produced by a heart attack cannot be fixed by new cells and the heart turns less efficient when ... [read more >>]
	11 May 2007, 03:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Male and Female Hearts Work Differently
	Phil Collins was very wrong saying “Two hearts beating just like one”. We do not know how many die annually from a broken heart but at least 600,000 do it because of heart disease. But there are significant sex differences in adult humans regarding the heart's anatomy and functions. Similar differences have also been found in the case of the rainbow trout in a study made by a team of the Department of Biological Science ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Bike
	The emergence of the mountain bikes filled the roads with those addicted to this sport. A mountain bike is very handy for exercising, even if one rides it more often on the roads than mountains. The best bikes for sporting are those with intermediary wheels, which provide an easy movement on the asphalt. Bike riding is a stealth exercise, which covers from a relaxed ride to sophisticated training. As a ride, biking gives a good sha ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2007, 11:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HIV Increases the Risk for Heart Attack
	It is already clear that HIV infection induces metabolic shifts like impaired levels of cholesterol blood levels, insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes, all correlated to changes of fat distribution. Now a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has linked HIV infection also to a higher risk of heart attack. Even if during the investigation, exposure to some cardiovascular risk factors also got higher for the HIV-infect ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2007, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New-Grown Hearts through Bioengineering on the Way
	They can grow a piece of bone or a piece of skin, but with the latest technologies, it seems they can also grow new hearts, or at least pieces, for heart attack survivors, children born with heart malformations, or those with clogged or weak blood vessels. A team at the University of Michigan Medical School describes in the journal Regenerative Medicine that scientists are closer than ever to “bioengineering” heart pieces, heart valves ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Another Advantage of Coffee: Fibers
	Can you feel any relief before you drink your daily cup of coffee? Well, that's not only because of craving for caffeine, but also because coffee helps you ...poop. A new research found that brewed coffee contains soluble dietary fibers, which help the body absorb vital nutrients, keep a lid on cholesterol and more importantly, whose lack in the alimentation provokes constipation. The cellulose fibers are abundant in cereals ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2007, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia