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07/05/2018 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Doing this 22 minutes a day will help you fight deadly heart disease

Staving off heart disease is simpler than you think. A recent study has found that the simple act of brisk walking for just 22 minutes a day is a great measure to prevent coronary heart disease (also known as coronary artery disease), which happens when plaque builds up in the arteries. Even more riveting: The new […]

07/04/2018 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Keep your arteries ecstatic by eating these 12 foods every day

As common as heart disease is, there are many ways to prevent it — and perhaps the best (and most delicious) place to start is by cleaning up your diet. Supercharging your diet with fiber-rich food filled with healthy fats will allow you to eat your way to a healthy heart and clear arteries. Don’t […]

09/19/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Dietary fiber found to reduce osteoarthritis knee pain in first-ever study of its kind

Improved joint health can now be added to the long list of fiber’s health benefits as researchers associated a fiber-rich diet with a decreased risk for degenerative joint disease, particularly in the knees. The new study, published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, involved researchers gathering and analyzing data from two previous studies to determine […]

05/02/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

New study reveals that exercise is socially contagious

When it comes to exercise, you may want to keep your friends close. A new study published in Nature Communications revealed that exercise is socially contagious, observing that exercise data shared on social networks influenced the exercise habits of people who saw them. For the study, researchers Sinan Aral and Christos Nicolaides of the Massachusetts Institute […]

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