cardiovascular health

Eating legumes improves blood sugar levels.

One apple a day can dramatically improve your cholesterol levels.

Whether freestyle, backstroke or butterfly, swimming for fitness can boost heart health, relieve stress and create a lean, toned physique. Laura Greaves explains how to get in the swim.

Know you need to exercise, but don’t know where to start? It’s OK, we’ve got you covered. All you need to know about creating your own exercise program (and how to stick to it).

If images of pounding the pavement and painful stitches have kept you from including running in your regular exercise program, it’s time to dust off your sneakers and tighten your laces; there is joy to be found in this moving meditation.

Although you can’t change your genetic predisposition or age-related factors that can lead to heart disease, you can take steps to control the other factors that can contribute.

Antioxidants and heart disease, the oxidation solution and the truth about free radicals.

At some point or another, you’ve probably felt like a hamster on a wheel while using the cardio equipment at your local gym. This feeling is usually accompanied by the “well at least i’m doing something” thought that justifies a not-so-challenging cardio session. I like to call this “blah” cardio. It happens to the best of us, infact, my recent “blah” cardio session inspired me to write this post.

Quercetin — a powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-histamine — may well be responsible for an apple a day keeping the doctor away.

Many describe the ginkgo tree as a “living fossil” and with good reason; varieties of its family date back more than 270 million years. This is great symbolism for a tree that’s thought to increase longevity.

Cardiovascular disease is responsible for over 40 per cent of deaths in Australia. Discover how the practise of yoga can improve cardiovascular health and increase your lifespan.

Winemaking dates back thousands of years — vines were widely cultivated in ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE. Wine is still one of the most popular beverages throughout the world and is prized for its social and health benefits.