According to the American Heart Association, “High blood pressure increases the heart’s workload, causing the heart to thicken and become stiffer. It also increases your risk of stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and congestive heart failure.”
This is a major risk factor that you have the power to change. Here are some steps that you can follow to help lower high blood pressure: (more…)
High cholesterol leads to heart disease. In fact, high cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and the higher your cholesterol is, the greater your chance of developing atherosclerosis, fatty deposits formed from cholesterol that collect in the arteries and restrict blood flow. According to the American Heart Association, “As blood cholesterol rises, so does risk of coronary heart disease.”
However, this major risk factor is a risk factor that you have the power to change! (more…)
Smoking is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and one of the main causes of heart attack and stroke, which is why it is first on our list of ways in which you have the power to improve your cardiovascular health.
Because smoking causes excessive free radicals within the body, oxygen molecules consequently alter cholesterol and damage arteries. Since antioxidants help neutralize free radicals, taking an antioxidant supplement, like Res-Q CellPower and Res-Q Mega Acai definitely helps; but, individuals who smoke, even occasionally, should still consider quitting vital to better health. (more…)
Res-Q Multi: Heart-Healthy Multivitamin Supplement
Breaking News! New study on Vitamin E and Immune System
Vitamin E has always been linked to a healthy immune system.
Being an essential antioxidant, it is touted for its ability to protect our cell membranes, and keep our skin, heart, circulation, nerves, muscles and red blood cells healthy. Vitamin E also protects cells against the effects of dangerous free radicals. And as we’re now learning, free radicals can cause cell damage and lead to cardiovascular disease and cancer.
More recently, it has been suggested that elderly patients who are being immunized for the flu or the swine flu, can improve their health by taking a Vitamin E supplement for additional immune-system support. (more…)
Not many people know that heart disease is the number one, leading cause of death in women in the United States. It’s more prevalent than breast cancer, lung cancer, and all other types of cancers combined. (more…)
Protect your aging heart.
All month, we will be talking about your heart and ways in which you can love it even more than you already do!
The power to change your life is yours.
You may not be able to change the fact that you’re growing older, but you can change other major risk factors associated with heart disease that may decrease your chances of developing heart problems. Let’s face it. Certain risk factors can’t be changed. Age, gender and heredity are all risk factors of heart disease that we have no control over. But there are factors that we do have control over and that can be decreased by changing our lifestyle. According to the American Heart Association they are: (more…)
