A US FDA approved treatment for heart-disease called Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP) has been unveiled in Bangalore recently, by Sri Sri Ravishankar, the Art of Living Founder. The inauguration was held at Sri Sri Ayurveda Panchakarma – the Ayurveda and Wellness Spa, in association with The Global Heart Foundation, Pune, India. Speaking during the [...]

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acharya on November 8th, 2011

Regular practice of yoga helps in preventing and managing cardiovascular diseases, revealed a recent clinical study by JIPMER (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research) in India. Yoga controls essential hypertension The study team, led by Dr. Madanmohan Trakroo, demonstrated that through regular practice of yoga, patients with essential hypertension noticed significant decrease [...]

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acharya on November 22nd, 2010

Garlic has considerable potential for preventing Cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease that is one of the leading causes of death in diabetic patients, a new study revealed. The report, which appeared in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, explains that people with diabetes have twice the risk of death from heart disease in [...]

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acharya on June 4th, 2010

Beginning the day with a glass of grape juice, may be particularly good for the heart. Purple grape juice has proven effective in preventing heart attacks, angina and strokes, a research has revealed. Drinking purple grape juice boosted the nightly dip in blood pressure, offering the heart and veins vital rest, revealed reports of 64 [...]

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Bilberry extracts can prevent the build up of plaques in the arteries, thereby preventing hardening of blood vessels and boosting overall heart health reveals a new study in France. In the study, the fermented bilberry extract, out-performed the standard extract, prompting the French researchers to suggest that yeast fermentation produces new bioactive compounds with heart [...]

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acharya on January 11th, 2010

Men who regularly practice heart-pounding exercises are less likely to develop Cancer, reveals a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The main reason behind this was the higher rate of oxygen consumption among people who exercised. Researchers in the Universities of Oulu and Kuopio in Finland studied the leisure-time physical activity, [...]

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Here’s more to green tea. Latest study from Japan further supports previous evidences, confirming that drinking green tea can have cardiovascular benefits. A study conducted on elderly people from Shizuoka, revealed that regular green-tea drinkers have considerably lower levels of cardiovascular mortality, than those who rarely drank the beverage. Etsuji Suzuki and colleagues at Okayama [...]

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A natural supplement extracted from tomatoes can help protect against heart diseases and stroke, says a new study. The active ingredient in the tomato pill, lycopene, helps in blocking bad LDL cholesterol, which clog the arteries. Ateronon, made by a biotechnology spin-out company at Cambridge University, is being launched as a dietary supplement and will [...]

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