Most who suffer from gout will be told by their doctor that they will feel better and suffer from much less pain if they learn to eat foods that are low in purines It is easy to give a list of foods, and many will not have any problems fashioning their own menu with great tasting dishes that help them feel better and to avoid the build up of uric acid in their bodies

A recent Wharton School/VA study finds that “cold hard cash” is one of the best losing weight tips out there And it’s the immediacy of the payout that seems to make the difference, not the amount of money involved

A study that followed over 21,000 male doctors for two decades, measuring a variety of things including the influence of carrying a few extra pounds and physical activity on risk of cardiac heart failure has an important message - even a few extra pounds can be risky, especially if you’re not active

The next time you feel lazy for rolling over and giving in to the urge to go back to sleep, remember this - learning how to sleep longer might be doing more than recharging your energy, it could also be keeping your coronary arteries and your heart healthy Since the heart needs a constant supply of blood rich in oxygen, the arteries that deliver this supply are super important

Salt has long gotten a bad rap when it comes to blood pressure, but new research has shown that that reducing salt in your diet might also help cut your heart disease risk and stop a cardiac event like a heart attack or stroke Eating a low salt diet might actually help keep your blood vessels working more efficiently

College students are well known for putting in all night study sessions to cram for that big exam, but according to a recent study (and good common sense), students getting more sleep the night before the test is a better way for improving your memory Participants in the study, appearing in the November 2008 issue of the journal of Learning & Memory, did a far better job playing a video game they’d learned after a good night’s sleep

They taste delicious, sinfully good but once they’re past our taste buds, the fatty, sugary foods so many of us love do nothing for the rest of our body Yet still they are (for many of us) virtually impossible to resist

Snoring problems during sleep - once thought as just a noisy disruption to your sleeping partner (perhaps the entire household) is now understood to be so much more When we sleep, turbulent airflow moves through the tissues of the nose and throat which may narrow during sleep - resulting in that awful noise

It has been known for some time that those diagnosed with depression have a higher heart disease risk or cardiac event - the medical term for a heart attack, stroke or other sudden problem involving your heart There’s also lots of evidence that depression is more common in heart patients and seems to up the risk of a second cardiovascular event

A recent study has shown that men control hunger better than women do, which goes a long way toward explaining why women are more likely to eat for emotional reasons, and why men always seem to drop weight more easily when they diet “Women have a much stronger reaction to food, such that whether they try to inhibit their desire or not, they have stronger signal [in the part of the brain that controls hunger perception and desire to eat],” study leader Gene-Jack Wang, MD explains