7 Tips for a Heart-Healthy Holiday Season
Follow these simple tips, and you will be well on your way to enjoying the holidays with a healthy heart.
Follow these simple tips, and you will be well on your way to enjoying the holidays with a healthy heart.
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We have all felt it at some point. Those woeful wintertime blues strike out of nowhere, sapping your joy and making you long for blue skies and sunny days. But what about when this brief, season-related sadness isn’t brief at all and keeps you from accomplishing basic tasks? This is seasonal affective disorder (SAD). What …
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The diagnosis? AFib. The risk, you are told, is stroke. Every day thousands of people, just like you, walk out of their doctor’s office thinking they will have a stroke. Does this sound familiar to you? A doctor hands you a list of pharmaceuticals you must take to reduce your stroke risk since you have …
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Do you live above the 37th parallel? If so, your home likely has more days of gloom and clouds than sunshine and blue skies from October to April. You know vitamin D is essential and that sunshine is the best way to get it, but sunbathing naked in subzero temperatures just isn’t an option. What do …
Sunscreen is among the most divisive topics in the health world. Some claim it’s essential to protect from sunburn and cancer; others say the ingredients in sunscreen make it a hazard to your body. How do you know who is right, and how can you protect yourself and your family from the misinformation surrounding this …
You wake with the shrill sound of your alarm clock ringing in your ears. Still groggy from sleep, you reach for your phone, scrolling through the news and clearing notifications. Eventually, you roll out of bed and stumble to the coffee pot, sipping piping hot liquid gold. As the caffeine floods through your system, you …
The sun, vitamin D, and the skin are closely linked but it might seem crazy to say that sunshine heal your skin. We all recognize that the sun affects that skin, but whether this is negative or positive will depend on who you ask. Many people crave that sunkissed glow from a day at the …