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Natural Practitioner’s Top 10 Stories of 2025
As 2025 comes to an end, Natural Practitioner (NP) magazine looks back at the most read stories throughout the year. This year featured news items include natural products industry associations responding to recent studies and tariffs. In 2025, VRM Media partnered with Positively Natural Network (PNN) to promote the Naturally Independent Expo in Palm Springs, CA. Two of ...
Associations Respond to Melatonin Study Presented at the 2025 AHA Scientific Sessions
Long-term use of melatonin supplements, often used to promote sleep and address insomnia, was associated with a higher risk of heart failure diagnosis, heart failure hospitalization and death from any cause in chronic insomnia, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2025. In the study, researchers classified people who ...
For Older Adults, Every 500 Additional Steps Taken Daily Associated With Lower Heart Risk
A new study found that walking an additional 500 steps, or about one-quarter of a mile, per day was associated with a 14 percent lower risk of heart disease, stroke or heart failure, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2023. The ...
AHA Releases Statement on Benefits and Risks of Alternative Therapies For Heart Failure
A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) summarized the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies in the setting of heart failure (HF). The statement, published in the AHA journal Circulation, encourages people to disclose their use of such treatments to their health care team to ensure they are using ...
Study Finds Dieters May Overestimate the Healthiness of Their Eating Habits
In a small study, most adults seeking to lose weight overestimated the healthiness of their diet, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2022. The meeting, held in person in Chicago, IL and virtually, Nov. 5-7, 2022, is a premier global exchange of the latest scientific advancements, research ...
Only 1 in 5 People in the U.S. Has Optimal Heart Health
Approximately 80 percent of people in the U.S. have low to moderate cardiovascular health based on the American Heart Association’s new Life’s Essential 8 checklist according to a new study published in the journal Circulation. Life’s Essential 8, also published in Circulation, details the association’s updated guidance to measure cardiovascular health, adding healthy sleep as essential for ...
Meditation Linked to Lower Cardiovascular Risk
Meditation was linked to lower cardiovascular risk in a data analysis by Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues. The results appeared online June 30 in the American Journal of Cardiology. Previous studies have suggested that meditation may have beneficial effects on a number of conditions. A 2017 American Heart Association scientific statement suggests that meditation may be ...
People With High Cholesterol Should Eliminate Carbs, Not Saturated Fat, Study Suggests
For decades, people diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia have been instructed to minimize their consumption of saturated fats to lower cholesterol and reduce their risks of heart disease. But a new study published in the journal BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine found no evidence to support those claims. Familial hypercholesterolemia is a genetic disorder that causes people to have cholesterol ...
Omega-3 Shows Protection Against Heart Disease-related Death, Without Prostate Cancer Risk
Should you take omega-3 pills? Or try to have two to servings of omega-3 rich fish a week, as the American Heart Association recommends? It may seem a bit murky if you follow headlines about nutrition and health. That’s why researchers at the Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute (Salt Lake City, UT) continue to research the ...
Twin Study Shows What’s Good For the Heart is Good For the Brain
Emory University researchers are giving us double the reasons to pay attention to our cardiovascular health—showing in a recently published study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease that good heart health can equal good brain health. The American Heart Association defines ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) across seven modifiable risk factors (blood sugar, serum cholesterol, blood pressure, body ...
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