Blood pressure is an indication of how hard your heart has to work to pump blood around your body. If your blood pressure reading is high, it means that your heart is working too hard and is under too much strain. Unsurprisingly, high blood pressure is a significant risk factor for several life-threatening illnesses.
Not everyone has heard of cardiovascular disease (CVD) — and that’s where the problem lies. If you don’t know your enemy, you don’t know how to defend yourself against it, which is why identifying cardiovascular disease is a pivotal component of heart health.
There’s a consistent tragedy among heart surgery patients: they believed disease was inevitable. Where lung cancer victims may express regret for smoking, and an alcoholic may wish they’d made different choices when they develop cirrhosis, patients with heart disease are often oblivious that their diet affects their heart health. Some do make the connection and …
When you hear “heart disease prevention” you likely think about cholesterol, being a healthy weight, and medication like statins. Many people find it confusing, with so many restrictions and new stories in the news about the latest discovery that’s been supposedly linked to heart disease. The truth is simpler than we’ve been led to believe, …
Are you familiar with the feeling of staring at your computer, unable to get any work done? Where you know what you should do but you just can’t focus? Not strictly lethargy or procrastination, but a lack of mental clarity that makes it difficult to get in the zone and be productive? That feeling is …
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The saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ is absolutely true for heart health. While today’s surgical interventions and medications make it possible for more people to survive heart problems than ever before, you don’t have to become ill before you pay attention to your heart health. Heart disease prevention doesn’t have to be difficult or …
Heart disease is a huge problem in the USA. According to the CDC: One person dies every 36 seconds 655,000 Americans die each year (that’s as many people as would fit inside 31.5 Madison Square Gardens) It accounts for 1 in every 4 deaths It costs $219 billion Why is heart disease so common? Let’s …
Poor health has become normalized. For ourselves and those around us, we consider it the natural order to feel tired, be prescribed medication, and gain weight. The modern way of promoting heart health is to eat cereal and reduce fat intake. But this isn’t normal. Nor is it normal that almost half of all Americans …
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Improving your metabolic health is one of the most beneficial things you can ever do. There are markers for identifying how metabolically healthy a person is, which means that it’s an objective monitor. It isn’t based on how you feel, nor do you become metabolically healthy because you started a new healthy habit. Metabolic health …
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If you worry that eating healthy costs a lot of money, I’ve got good news: it doesn’t have to. It’s a persistent idea that low-income families can’t afford healthy foods, and in this post you’re going to see that it’s not true. It’s certainly true that low-quality foods can be purchased cheap. However, consider the …
