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Watching your cholesterol levels is one of the most important  things you can do for heart health  and preventing several types of heart disease. If you have high cholesterol levels, the best thing to do is listen to your doctor’s advice, but you can also make sure to eat foods that can help get your cholesterol down to acceptable levels. Just as there are foods that can raise your cholesterol, there are foods that have been shown to get it down and keep it where you want it. 1. Avocados Avocados are naturally cholesterol free, and contain both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, which are considered healthy fats that your body needs to work at its best. The cholesterol-lowering effects of avocados applies to the bad cholesterol, and they actually work to raise your good cholesterol levels, It’s sort of like putting the brakes on one and hitting the gas on the other for a compounded effect. Specifically it’s the oleic acid that is working its magic with avocados,...

by Jennifer Welsh - Aug. 29, 2012 The first organ was transplanted in 1954, saving lives and forever changing how we treat illness affected by organ failure. Since then we've made major strides and saved countless lives, but our current system of human-to-human organ transplantation is failing. These are the statistics from DonateLife America: More than 114,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants. Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant. In 2011, there were 8,127 deceased organ donors and 6,017 living organ donors resulting in 28,535 organ transplants. Last year, more than 42,000 grafts were made available for transplant by eye banks within the United States. According to research, 98% of all adults have heard about organ donation and 86% have heard of tissue donation. 90% of Americans say they support d...

Celebrating next week THREE YEARS in the New York times Bestseller List, you find below parts of the dialogue between the shepherd boy and the Alchemist on the way to the pyramids. "Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure." "But my heart is agitated," the boy said. "It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her." "Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say." "My heart is a traitor," the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. "It doesn't want me to go on." "That makes sense. Naturally it's afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you've won....