The Simple Way To Boost Your Heart Health By 46%

By Marygrace Taylor

Photo credit: Jenny Acheson

If the inner tube that’s usually in the pool during those lazy, hazy days of summer is now firmly around your middle, here’s some news that’ll help deflate it and strengthen your heart in the process.

Daily exercise reduces your risk for heart failure by a whopping 46%, according to a big new study published in the journal Circulation. From 1997 to 2010, Swedish researchers tracked the exercise habits and heart failure rates of nearly 40,000 adults (all of whom were healthy at the outset). The more active folks were, the lower their risk of heart failure. And while any amount of exercise was better than none, those with the lowest heart failure risk did either 60 minutes of moderate activity (e.g., walking) or 30 minutes of vigorous activity (e.g., running) every day.

From: http://www.prevention.com/health/health-concerns/daily-exercise-improves-heart-health-46

Marijuana Use Linked to Rising Cardiovascular Events

TOULOUSE, FRANCE — Researchers in France are warning that marijuana use may increase the risk of cardiovascular events, particularly in younger adults, with fatal consequences^[1].

Their concerns stem from a review of reports made to the French Addictovigilance Network between 2006 and 2010 indicating that almost 2% of reported events concerned cardiovascular complications. What's more, the average age of the people with CV complications was 34, with the number of cardiovascular complications tripling over the study period.

"The general public thinks marijuana is harmless, but information revealing the potential health dangers of marijuana use needs to be disseminated to the public, policymakers, and healthcare providers," lead author Prof Émilie Jouanjus(Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, France) commented in a press statement. This is especially important, given the growing move toward decriminalization of the drug and its use as medical treatment.

>LEARN MORE about the study from medscape.com