Valentine’s Day  – the special day we get loved up and girls get the flowers, chocolates and meals out that we crave for the remaining 364 days of the year!!
When you smokers reach out for that post-intimacy ciggie, best check out your genes to make sure it won’t be your last puff.
New evidence emerges from the Heart Research Follow-up Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, that a common defect in the gene CETP (cholesteryl ester transfer protein) significantly increases a smoker’s risk of an early heart attack. CETP is a protein found in all people that controls cholesterol metabolism.  …read more