Heart Health

The company will host two education seminars on nutrigenomics this May.

The company has petitioned FDA for a qualified health claim for whole grains and certain food products containing whole grains.

The aged black garlic ingredient will complement Nature*4*Science’s existing line of allicin-standardized garlic extracts.

Researchers are interested in potential links to blood pressure, cholesterol, and other heart disease risk factors.

The agency said current rules for phytosterol-fortified products remain effective until publication of a final rule.

A 94-person intervention trial finds protein intake reduces blood pressure over a maltodextrin supplement.

The patent (No. 8,075,929) covers the process by which the ingredient is produced.

Currently, products on the market have used Fruitflow in its syrup form.

Analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says U.S. trans fat intake dropped 58% between 2000 and 2009.

A year's worth of research on today's leading heart health ingredients.

Researchers from Shandong University looked at 26 studies on human subjects and garlic (Allium sativum) consumption.

When rats consumed GoodBelly, their leptin levels decreased, as did their severity of heart attacks.

Results of a six-month intervention trial on 95 adult tea drinkers.

Derived from whole grain barley, Barliv is low in viscosity and invisible when added to foods and beverages.

Rats that supplemented with Superba krill oil before an induced heart attack experienced showed signs of improved cardiovascular recovery.

Chromadex reports it has pterostilbene products in GNC, Walgreens, and DrugStore.com.

In a crossover study, soy outperforms milk and complex carbs for cholesterol management.

Manufactured by Enzymotec (Migdal HaEmek, Israel), the ingredient is clinically proven to provide cardiovascular benefits.

Photonz has successfully produced about 20 tons of algal omega-3 eicosapentaenoic acid.

For cardiovascular health claims, EFSA’s NDA Panel seemed to embrace most of the generally accepted biomarkers. For antioxidant claims, EFSA stressed that physiological effects should be demonstrated in vivo.

A meta-analysis on DHA and cholesterol shows that consuming DHA-rich algae oil supplements may provide cardio support rivaling that from fish oil.

Each serving of Heart Right fat-free milk contains 0.4 g of CoroWise sterols.

Tocotrienol isomers gamma-tocotrienol and alpha-tocotrienol may benefit those with high cholesterol-but delta-tocotrienol doesn’t, according to a new study.

According to the study, there is a J-shaped curve in which too little or too much sodium excretion can increase risk of adverse cardiovascular events.

Compared to patients with normal vitamin D levels, patients with vitamin D deficiency were considered more than twice as likely to have diabetes, 29% more likely to have cardiomyopathy, and 40% more likely to have high blood pressure.