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Last week, a 105-year-old Texas woman announced the secret to her longevity: eating bacon with every meal. While this story is worth mentioning for the sheer audacity of her claim, it conjures up the debate over meat's role in the American diet and just how essential it is – or isn't – for our bodies and our environment.I have made no secret about being a devoted vegan for decades; my husband is too, and we have raised our teenage son accordingly. Over the years, emerging data has validated this very personal decision, including rising chemical levels in chicken and recent research regarding a compound found in red meat and how it affects the gut and the heart.Red meat is chock full of saturated fat and has for years been linked to high cholesterol. But just last month, Dr. Stanley Hazen of The Cleveland Clinic published a study implicating red meat for yet another component: lecithin. Found in egg yolks, liver, beef, pork and wheat germ, lecithin turns into an artery-clogging compound...
The percentage of U.S. adults with high cholesterol levels declined by a more than quarter over the last decade, according to a new government report.A nationally re...
Understanding statin use in America
Diana Falzone on a fashion show for heart disease awareness
When Kennedi Thompson started developing xanthomas – fatty deposits that appear as white, raised bumps on the skin – her parents initially thought she was having an ...
High cholesterol levels in midlife — even cholesterol levels considered only borderline elevated — significantly increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease 30 years l...
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that only about half of adults in the U.S. with high cholesterol get treatment for it, and to ma...
Examining results of startling new study
FNC contributor Steven Crowder on some new creative taxes and Taco Bell promising to offer healthier menu options.
Fox Health Fix: Anna Kooiman reports on the top health headlines of the week
Sexual dysfunction often refers to different symptoms in men and women, yet can share similar underlying causes. In women, it is often characterized by low sexual d...
Heart disease is the number one killer across the United States, and one of the risk factors that often makes the disease so deadly is high cholesterol.However, one ...
Familial hypercholesterolemia is a genetic condition that causes high cholesterol , but most people don’t even know they have it. Dr. Jamie Underberg explains why it’s important to know your family history
Oh, great. Just when you were starting to get a handle on your BPA exposure, scientists uncover a new one you should worry about. It's called perfluorooctanoic acid ...
New study links heart to brain
Baby boomers, the generation that vowed to stay forever young, are getting older, designing senior-friendly gyms and becoming their own personal trainers.In exercise...
Eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them,...
I am extremely disappointed with the decision of the Food and Drug Administration to sell the Plan B One Step morning-after pill over-the-counter to children as youn...
Mushrooms are one of the most versatile vegetables out there. Not only are there lots of varieties, but also seemingly endless ways to prepare them - from sautéing, ...
Thousands of heart attack victims every year have none of the notorious risk factors before their crisis - not high cholesterol, not unhealthy triglycerides. Now the...
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