Archive for the 'Heart Health' Category
How a Healthy Lifestyle Helps You
Posted on July 16, 2010 - Filed Under Heart Health, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
I know where I want my heart disease risk to be. You?
[Source: Harvard School of Public Health: Take Heart, underline added].
The Heart is Awesome
Posted on March 18, 2010 - Filed Under Heart Health, Prevention | View Comments
The heart fascinates me. Always has. Always will. Let’s take care of it.
Image Source1.
William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch and Victor L. Katch, Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance, 6th ed (Baltimore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007): 317. [↩]
Women and Heart Disease
Posted on February 4, 2010 - Filed Under Heart Health, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Important message for women and everyone else to take better care of your heart. Read more from Stacey Shipman here and also, don’t forget to check out Go Red for Women.
Benefits vs. Risks of Triathlon
Posted on July 28, 2009 - Filed Under Exercise, Heart Health, Prevention, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
“When one considers that heart disease is THE likeliest thing to kill an American, it’s hard to see that an article would only highlight the risk of these sports. Improving one’s diet and engaging in cardiovascular exercises are the two primary ways of naturally and dramatically reducing the risk of heart disease. I posit that [...]
Arteries
Posted on May 20, 2009 - Filed Under Heart Health, Prevention | View Comments
A few weeks ago I won a giveaway from Living Healthy in the Real World. The giveaway included the book The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood. I flipped through it real fast when I got it and saw the above picture. Thought it was worth sharing, along with this excerpt:
“The medical truism ‘You’re only as [...]
Exercise is NOT a Waste of Time
Posted on May 7, 2009 - Filed Under Exercise, Heart Health, Nutrition, Weight Control | View Comments
To those who believe exercise is a waste of time: It’s not.
[Note: when I say "exercise" I mean in all of its forms and also include all physical activity].
While evidence may point to eating habits having a greater effect on weight loss than exercise alone, exercise should not be brushed aside.
Honestly, I get sick of hearing [...]
Tha Hip Hop Doc
Posted on March 25, 2009 - Filed Under Heart Health, Prevention | View Comments
“Tha Hip Hop Doc” is Dr. Rani G. Whitfield, M.D. He’s getting out the message of heart-healthier living in a different way — a hip hop way.
“It’s not just African-Americans I’m speaking to, it’s white, black, Hispanic, Asian; I’m speaking to many groups with the urban concept, the urban message.”
– Dr. Whitfield, from here.
“We’ve got [...]
Risk Factors for Heart Disease and How To Improve Them
Posted on February 24, 2009 - Filed Under Heart Health, Prevention | View Comments
Here are “Risk Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease”1 and how to improve them. [If this is too small to read, use your browser's zoom function].
Look at the “Nonmedication Methods to Improve” column. Any common methods in there?
Ok, perhaps this is over-simplified, but for most people, these methods will reduce the risk of heart disease.
Lifestyle does matter.
Philip E. [...]
Live Heart Healthy
Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under Heart Health, Prevention | View Comments
Here’s a quick Monday thought for all of us:
“Heart disease is often avoidable. Following a heart-healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to be complicated. Find ways to include heart-healthy habits into your lifestyle – and you may well enjoy a healthier life for years to come.”
From here. Read to learn more about preventing heart disease in your [...]
You Need Your Heart and It Needs You
Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under Exercise, Heart Health | View Comments
Last weekend my wife and I went to the BodyWorlds exhibit in Salt Lake City. It was pretty awesome. The last time I got to see stuff like that was at the cadaver lab at BYU.
Above is a heart opened longitudinally (via BodyWorlds.com). Pretty cool to see the chambers of the heart and everything else. After [...]
