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Food can protect your heart |
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 Heart disease is one of the world’s biggest killers. These days, almost half of those who die from heart disease are women. The good news is that you can protect your heart through a good diet.
Heart disease kills millions of people every year. And it no longer only affects middle-aged men. Statistics show that heart disease and strokes kill more women worldwide than cancer, HIV/Aids, malaria and TB combined.
The major risk factors for both men and women include increasing age, heredity, smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, physical inactivity and being overweight or obese. However, two far greater risk indicators that are not as well known, are high homocysteine and free radical levels.
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Hypertension – the silent killer |
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 Lifestyle diseases, like hypertension, are on the rise because South Africans are getting too fat, eat too much junk food and get too little exercise.
High blood pressure, or hypertension (the technical term for persistently high blood pressure), has increased at such a rate among old and young that the
African Union has called it one of the continent’s greatest health challenges after AIDS.
In South Africa, an estimated five million people already have high
blood pressure and face the risk of a heart attack. this figure is
expected to rise dramatically, warns the Medical Research Council.
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Type-2 diabetes: Are you a candidate |
 Chronic diseases, like type-2 diabetes, are on the increase because people eat too much junk food, are overweight and get too little exercise, warn the experts. Obesity and type-2 diabetes often go hand in hand. And both are on the rise the world over. A major problem is that many people with the disease do not even know they have it. However, early detection can slow its progression.
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