http://www.natural-holistic-health.com Learn how to keep you and your family healthy safely and holistically. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:39:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/risk-heart-disease/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/risk-heart-disease/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:22:13 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=3752 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/risk-heart-disease/feed/ 0 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/steps-prevent-heart-disease-men/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/steps-prevent-heart-disease-men/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:47:06 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=6679 Heart disease is the number one killer out there. We often hear about women and heart disease but what about men? It is number one for them too. Heart disease affects not only the heart but the entire cardiovascular system. When someone has a heart attack it is because blood couldn’t reach a certain part of the heart through the coronary arteries. There can be congenital defects that affect the heart as well as stenosis in the aorta and other blood vessels of the body. When it comes to your heart, there ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/steps-prevent-heart-disease-men/feed/ 0 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/constitutes-heart-disease/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/constitutes-heart-disease/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:20:09 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=3889 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/constitutes-heart-disease/feed/ 0 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/easy-methods-avoiding-heart-disease/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/easy-methods-avoiding-heart-disease/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:19:02 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=3610 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/easy-methods-avoiding-heart-disease/feed/ 2 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/easy-tips-boosting-heart-healthy/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/easy-tips-boosting-heart-healthy/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:37:59 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=3257 Fiber is a necessary part of your diet but in this day and age of carbonated sodas, Twinkies and other processed foods, you may not be getting enough. Plant derived fiber is best for your health but do you even know why fiber is so important? First of all, fiber is the nutritional way to “roto-rooter” your digestive tract. Because fiber is bulky, it will slow down digestion, making you feel fuller faster, preventing you from overeating. Next, it acts like one of those trucks that brush the street, sweeping undigested ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/easy-tips-boosting-heart-healthy/feed/ 1 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/definition-heart-disease/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/definition-heart-disease/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:46:27 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=3248 Heart disease is actually any condition or disorder in which the ability of the heart to perform is adversely affected. There are many forms of heart disease including alcoholic cardiomyopathy, aortic regurgitation, aortic stenosis, arrhythmias, carcinogenic shock, congenital heart disease, coronary artery disease (CAD), endocarditis, heart attack also called a myocardial infarction, heart failure, heart tumor, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, idiopathic cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, acute mitral regurgitation, chronic mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral valve prolapse, peripartum cardiomyopathy, pulmonary stenosis, stable angina, unstable angina and also tricuspid regurgitation. There are many things that can cause ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/definition-heart-disease/feed/ 1 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/risk-factors-heart-disease/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/risk-factors-heart-disease/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:31:37 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=3133 There are two types of risk factors for heart disease, those that are controllable and those that you cannot control. The main risk factors for heart disease are being male, becoming older, a family history of heart disease, being a woman who is post-menopausal, and being African American, American Indian, or being Mexican American. These risk factors are the ones that you cannot control. The risk factors for heart disease that you can control are smoking, having high LDL cholesterol or low HDL cholesterol, whether you are physically active or not, ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/risk-factors-heart-disease/feed/ 2 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/heart-disease/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/heart-disease/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:18:40 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/?p=3066 Sometimes heart disease has no symptoms and is detected during a routine physical examination. Other times individuals may experience warming physical symptoms or signs such as feeling short of breath, feeling dizzy, experiencing nausea, or by having abnormal heartbeats (arrhythmias), they may also feel more fatigued than normal without any physical reason for the fatigue. Other symptoms are feeling a pain or discomfort in the center of your chest, pain or discomfort in the upper body, arms, back, neck, jaw, or stomach area. Some individuals feel short of breath, or break ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/heart-disease/feed/ 1