How the Cardiovascular System Works: Basic Anatomy The cardiovascular system includes the heart and blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries). The cardiovascular system is really a pump (heart) with a system of hoses (blood vessels). The blood vessels leaving the heart are called arteries. The blood vessels bringing blood back to the heart are called [...]
Antioxidants are a requirement for health. Oxidation is breakdown of tissues. When fat is oxidized, we say it goes rancid. When iron oxidizes, it rusts. When your apple oxidizes, it turns brown. When people oxidize, they age, get sick, and eventually die. We are exposed to a lot of toxins from our environment and foods that causes oxidation of tissues. Our own [...]
Cholesterol, as most of you know by now, is blamed for causing heart disease. It seems obvious that this must be the case, after all, isn’t heart disease caused by collecting plaques made of cholesterol? And don’t people who eat lots of cholesterol-containing foods get heart disease more often? This is certainly what we have been led to [...]
