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Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S.'s Articles in General Health

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  • Mediterranean Diet: Figs Can Lend You a Hand in Lowering Your Cholesterol
    Figs can lend you a helping hand to restore to normal your cholesterol if you do what Mediterraneans do: to make figs part of your daily diet. If you follow this recommendation, you will be surprised at the results in the not so long run.
  • An Authentic Mediterranean Plan to Prevent Heart Attacks
    Too often, different dietary plans are presented to us disguised as an Authentic Mediterranean Plan or Diet when the reality is that they have very little to do with it. Here are the 10 points that constitute an Authentic Mediterranean Diet.
  • Fish or Fish Oil Capsules for Heart Disease?
    Research shows that we can derive the same benefits from fish than from fish oil capsules as far as Omega-3 fats is concerned, since both do an equally good job at enriching the blood and other body tissues with healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
  • Mediterranean Diet: Watermelon Can Lower Your High Blood Pressure
    According to new research, watermelon juice is a source of the essential amino acid arginine. Our body needs arginine to produce nitric oxide, which has been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce blood clotting and protect against heart attacks and strokes.
  • Omega-3 Fats from Fish Reduce the Risk of Repeat Heart Attacks by as Much as 45%
    Italian researchers find that doses of 850 mg a day of Omega-3 fats from fish along with a diet Mediterranean style help reduce the chances of a second or third heart attack by as much as 45%.
  • Are You Overweight but Do Not Have a Diabetes Diagnosis? You Are Lucky! Part 2
    If patients with pre-diabetes lose between 5 and 7% of their weight and they exercise half an hour every day, five days a week, the risk to develop diabetes type 2 mellitus can be lowered by 60% in 3 years.
  • Are You Overweight but Do Not Have a Diabetes Diagnosis? You Are Lucky! Part I
    Obesity is becoming one of the major risk factors for Diabetes type 2, also known as Diabetes Mellitus, in industrialized countries; obese people have a much higher risk to develop Diabetes Type II -about 8 times higher- than people who have a normal weight.
  • 10 Steps to Remember When Eating at a Chinese Restaurant
    You may think Chinese cuisine is healthy because it contains large amounts of vegetables and it seems to be low in fat. That it’s true of Traditional Chinese cuisine; however, it may not be the case of the food served at many American-Chinese restaurants.
  • Mediterranean Diet: Can Garlic Protect Us From More Than Vampires?
    For several decades, the widespread use of antibiotics has ignored the medical properties of garlic. Lately, however, interest in garlic has escalated and nowadays research is focusing on the role garlic plays in the prevention and control of heart disease.
  • How to Lower Cholesterol & Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease by 22% with Dry Beans
    Studies have shown that people who eat dry beans regularly have a lower risk of suffering from heart disease than the ones who barely eat them. One main reason is because they lower cholesterol
  • Mediterranean Diet: How Fruits and Vegetables Maintains Your Blood Pressure Low
    Because fruits and vegetables contain the right combination of sodium and potassium, they are the ideal food for maintaining your blood pressure at a healthy level
  • Walk with a Goal: To Stay Away from the Doctor’s Office
    It is free; you can do it at any time and it doesn’t require being in top shape. In addition, walking improves high blood pressure, tones the muscles, has many cardiovascular benefits, and helps you get rid of some calories. So, what are you waiting for?
  • What Do You Know About the B Vitamins?
    Despite supplement advertisements that claim otherwise, vitamins do not provide the body with fuel for energy. Only carbohydrate, fat and protein are used for fuel. But because B vitamins help the body use that fuel, it is true that without B vitamins the body would lack energy.
  • 7 Reasons Why We Die of a Heart Attack
    According to U.S. General Surgeon, heart attacks and strokes are highly preventable. Thus, if more people die from heart disease than from any other illness, we need to give a serious consideration to why this is happening so we can prevent being part of the American Heart Association’s statistics. In this article you will find the 7 main reasons why we die of heart disease.
  • The Mediterranean Diet Is Also About Portions
    As many of us know, the virtues of the Mediterranean cuisine reside in the selection of its basic elements: fruits and vegetables, grains, fish and seafood, olive oil and red wine in moderation. But are we aware that a very important element of this diet is the portion sizes?
  • Mediterranean Diet: Mending Your Arteries after the Holidays
    The biggest payoff of eating fruits and vegetables is for your arteries. The Harvard-based Nurses’ Health Studies followed up with about 110,000 men and women for 14 years. The results of the studies showed that compared with the people who ate less than 1.5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, those who ate 8 or more servings a day were 30 percent less likely to have a heart attack or stroke
  • Mediterranean Diet: Oranges Can Help You Prevent Heart Attacks
    Oranges have been from time immemorial a staple food in the Mediterranean countries. They have also been a major player in protecting the people of that region from heart disease.
  • Protect Your Heart and Arteries during the Holiday Season
    Trans fats are the worst of all fats. Hydrogenated oils or trans fats, as they are usually called, are produced artificially by inserting molecules of hydrogen in vegetable oils, a process called hydrogenation. Through this process, the oil, which is liquid at room temperature, changes it original form and becomes solid. In addition, the new fat ends up with an unnatural chemical structure.
  • Should You Drink Wine or Eat Grapes?
    In studies conducted in 1992, it was observed that in southern France, mortality rates from heart disease were lower than expected despite the consumption of diets high in saturated fat. Researchers attributed the impressive low incidence of heart disease, 50 percent lower than in the Unites States, to the consumption of red wine. Since then, the possibility that drinking red wine might protect our heart arteries, has made the topic “wine and health” extremely popular. In fact, research has shown that taken in moderation -two 8 ounces glasses for men and 1 glass for women per day, red wine may increase HDL cholesterol, the “good” guy, decrease LDL cholesterol, the “bad” one, prevent oxidation of LDL, and scavenge free radicals.
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