Diet & Nutrition
The Health Benefits of Eating Oats for Breakfast
Oats are popular for a reason. In addition to being cheap, sustainable and hardy, they have several well-known health benefits.
Heart
Your chance of having cardiovascular disease isn't just fate or your genetics. Your diet, exercise habits, sleep and lifestyle play a critical role. This page covers evidence-based ways to keep your blood pressure, inflammation and cholesterol low and your cardiovascular system fit and healthy.
Diet & Nutrition
The 3 Best Heart Health Diets
The right diet can measurably lower your risk of heart disease. Here are three proven ones.
Diet & Nutrition
Ornish Diet: A Review
A clinically developed, very low-fat plant-based diet with strong evidence for reversing heart disease.
Health & Wellbeing
Intermittent Fasting for High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol
Intermittent fasting produces real, measurable improvements in blood pressure and cholesterol.
Diet & Nutrition
TLC Diet: A Review
A clinically designed diet built specifically to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease.
Diet & Nutrition
Vegan Diet: A Review
A plant-only dietary pattern with meaningful health benefits and some important nutritional considerations.
Health & Wellbeing
How Sleep Affects Your Cardiovascular Health
Poor sleep places stress on your heart and blood vessels. It affects your blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart health.
Exercise & Fitness
Why Running is Better Than Walking: 8 Reasons
If you can, run. Running has advantages and unique physical adaptations that walking cannot replicate.
Exercise & Fitness
Why Walking is Better Than Running: 8 Reasons
Walking can deliver comparable health benefits to running with a fraction of the risk, the effort, and the barriers.
Exercise & Fitness
What is VO2max & How to Improve It
VO2max is one of the best measures of fitness and health, and the good news is that almost everyone can improve it.
Diet & Nutrition
Low-Fat Diets: A Review
Once the dominant dietary advice for weight loss and heart health, but what does the current evidence say?
Exercise & Fitness
Does Exercise Lower Blood Pressure? (And by How Much?)
Research shows that regular exercise can lower blood pressure, with effects comparable to many blood pressure medications.