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Mike Fackelmann had no reason to think he had heart disease. Although his cholesterol was a touch on the high side, he had never experienced any chest pains and had just passed a stress test with flying colors. So last November, when a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital asked the then 49-year-old registered nurse to help demonstrate an experimental new cardiac scanner, neither the physician nor Fackelmann expected to see anything out of the ordinary. The idea was simply to slide Fackelmann through the machine and show what finely detailed images of the heart it could...
Thus my thrill over the downfall of Atkins isn't so simple as being able to eat whatever I want, which, if it's not clear, is bread. It's not even due to the fact that I think Atkins' high-cholesterol foods are dangerous for your heart, no matter how much weight you lose by gorging yourself on gut-filling fats. No, when Atkins Nutritionals filed for Chapter 11, it was a justification of my entire world view. Life is full of immutable truths, one of which happens to be that if you eat fewer calories than you burn...
...could learn a lot from your article "Can You Be Fat & Healthy?" Unfortunately, they are downtown drinking and chain smoking. Meanwhile, I am enjoying an evening with TIME, resting up from 45 miles of weekend cycling. I may wear larger-size clothes than some, but my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are low. We need much more reporting on the issue of health as opposed to thinness...
Check your health. If you have high blood pressure or cholesterol, unstable blood-glucose levels or chest pains when walking up stairs, get those symptoms under control before hitting the gym. Update your prescription medications and make sure to take only the drugs you need...
...months after they were prescribed potentially life-saving medications to lower cholesterol and blood pressure, only a third of patients were taking their pills, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine...