The Mediterranean diet is a flexible eating pattern rich in plant foods and unsaturated fats. Explore its benefits, foods, evidence and adaptations.
Effects of smoking on the body include lung damage, heart disease, DNA injury and cancer risk. See how cigarette smoke causes harm and why quitting helps.
Menopause is a gradual transition that can affect periods, sleep, mood, vaginal health, bones and cardiovascular risk. Learn what treatment can help.
How air pollution affects health goes far beyond the lungs, increasing risks involving the heart, blood vessels, brain and other systems across the body.
Sitting too long can make an otherwise active day highly sedentary. Learn how prolonged sitting affects health, why exercise helps and how simple movement breaks can reduce inacti…
Heart risk can build decades before symptoms. Learn why blood pressure, LDL, smoking, exercise and sleep matter in your 20s and 30s.
Learn what blood pressure numbers mean, normal and high BP levels, causes, symptoms, home monitoring and how hypertension is treated.
Heart health depends on protecting the whole cardiovascular system through movement, nutrition, risk-factor control, screening and appropriate medical treatment.
Walking is easy to underestimate because it looks ordinary. Yet it is one of the most accessible forms of physical activity, can reach moderate intensity, improves fitness when do…
