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High Levels of Niacin May Increase Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

High Levels of Niacin May Increase Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 5, 2024 | Nutrition

Since the 1940s, the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, 137.165 (a), has recommended that each pound of food made from flour should contain 24 milligrams of niacin to help prevent vitamin B3 deficiency. For years, some doctors have prescribed niacin to treat people...
How Sugar-Added Foods and Drinks Increase Risk for Heart Disease

How Sugar-Added Foods and Drinks Increase Risk for Heart Disease

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 23, 2023 | Heart Health

Researchers followed more than 110,000 people for nine years and found that the more free sugar a person takes in, the greater the risk for heart disease (BMC Medicine, Feb 14, 2023;21(34)). Each five percent increase in free sugar intake in a participant’s...
How Sugar-Added Foods and Drinks Increase Risk for Heart Disease

Alcohol Increases Risk for Heart Attacks and Cancers

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 19, 2022 | Heart Health

Researchers analyzed data from 3865 adults and found that more than 50 percent said that they did not know that alcohol increases cancer risk (Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Dec 1, 2022). The people who incorrectly thought that alcohol doesn’t cause...
Being Physically Active Helps to Prevent Heart Attacks and Some Cancers

Being Physically Active Helps to Prevent Heart Attacks and Some Cancers

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 29, 2022 | Fitness

A prospective study of 78,500 men and women, ages 40-79, used wrist accelerometers to see whether daily step counts and measurements of intensity would predict future heart attacks or cancers (JAMA Intern Med, September 12, 2022). They were followed for an average of...
Being Physically Active Helps to Prevent Heart Attacks and Some Cancers

Can Intense Exercise Increase Your Risk for a Heart Attack?

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 26, 2022 | Fitness

On March 20, 2022, a 44-year-old woman died of a heart attack after finishing the Los Angeles Charity Challenge Half Marathon of a little over 13 miles in just under four hours. However, this event does not mean that vigorous exercise causes heart attacks; in a fit...
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