A healthy plant-based diet provided a significant reduction in LDL, as well as reductions in fasting insulin and weight compared with a healthy omnivore diet, in an 8-week controlled twin trial.
1. In this cross-sectional study, participants who engaged in weekend catch-up sleep had a lower prevalence of cardiovascular disease than those who did not. 2. However, this was most prominent in participants with an average weekday sleep duration of 2 hours. Evidence Rating Level: 3 (Average)
Improving your cardiovascular health can be as simple as replacing 30 minutes of sitting with another activity, results of a recent study out of England show.
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Michael D. Shapiro, DO, discusses how lipoproteins, chiefly LDL (low-density lipoprotein) and LP(a) (lipoprotein a), drive atherosclerotic heart disease.