Posts Tagged ‘Heart disease’

A scientific paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, provides a link between excessive consumption of sweet and low levels of HDL cholesterol. This brings with it the emergence of risk factors that may lead to the development of heart disease. In this study, detailing how sweet can lower good cholesterol and how this influences on cardiovascular health.

Due to increasingly high consumption of sweet foods, Emery University in Atlanta, United States, conducted a study on the impact of excessive consumption of sweets on plasma levels of good cholesterol or HDL.

Until now if a person suffering from high cholesterol, are recommended to control the intake of foods high in fat (sausage, snacks, etc.). But as a result of this research, which found a direct relationship between consumption of sweet and low HDL cholesterol concentrations in blood, the recommendations will surely be expanded. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a study at the University of North Carolina U.S., children as young as three years presented specific markers that would predict cardiovascular disease in adulthood. These findings are very important to try to raise awareness about the relationship between childhood obesity and the onset of heart disease when they become adults.

Children aged three years who have presented early obesity high levels of C-reactive protein, a marker that determines inflammation. This marker in adults is an indicator of possible heart disease. Hence the importance of the results obtained in research conducted at the University of North Carolina in the U.S.. Read the rest of this entry »