If you’re reading this and you’re overweight, I want you to answer the following. Did you gain all that weight quickly? Did you have to do something drastic to gain it, like eat 10,000 calories a day? I’m going to take a chance here and say the answer to both questions is “no.” You gained …
The old saying is true: you are what you eat. Especially when it comes to metabolic health. But these days it’s easier than ever to make the wrong food choices. A combination of bad information and an endless supply of processed junk foods means that it requires deliberate effort to eat well. And on top …
“I don’t have time.” That’s a common remark for people in high-pressure jobs, particularly business owners and senior members of the organization. But as the common saying goes, if you can’t find time to be healthy, you’ll have to find time to be ill. You wouldn’t be the first person to make the mistake of …
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In the USA, one person dies from heart disease every 36 seconds. Sadly, many people believe there’s nothing they can do to prevent heart disease – but this isn’t true. There are steps you can take to improve your heart health. A simple consultation with a cardiologist can prove vital in providing you with the …
Cardiovascular disease is an umbrella term that includes all heart-related illnesses along with some other conditions such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT). There are four main forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD): Aortic valve disease Coronary disease Peripheral arterial disease Stroke In this article, I’ll explain how to reduce your risk of developing CVD and potential …
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As businesses can only be as good as the staff they employ, it makes financial sense to look after your team. After all, if they’re unwell or unhappy then they won’t be able to produce their best work. This has been broadly acknowledged over the years, with ‘wellbeing’ becoming a recent buzzword. While the intention …
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There’s a lot of conflicting information out there when it comes to improving heart health, even among the medical community. Not a week goes by without someone telling me they’re so confused they end up doing nothing, or that they believed they were making healthy decisions only to later find out they weren’t. We live …
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There’s more to health than what we can visually observe. We can’t truly know if our colleagues and employees are healthy just by looking at them, nor by the number of sick days they take. Employee health can be a difficult topic, too. Other than the cursory “How are you today?” in the office, an …
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 …
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 …
