Are you ready for a heart attack? At this time of year as the weather cools down and the nights get longer, the holidays begin rapidly approaching until the next thing we know, they are right upon us. Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day are supposed to be filled with love and joy with…
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Sleeping Too Much?
The Opposite Problem In the fast-paced world that we live in, insomnia is a common complaint. We rarely hear anyone complain about sleeping too much, but it does happen. Strangely enough, hypersomnia, or over-sleeping is related to many health problems including diabetes, heart disease and increased risk of death. (1) How many times have you…
Caregiving? Read This
Caregivers Stress The stress of caregiving induces intense feelings of being overwhelmed, loneliness, isolation and a feeling of being deserted by others. The stress may manifest by sleeping too much or too little, gaining or losing weight, chronic exhaustion, losing interest in things that you normally enjoy and getting easily irritated or angered or feeling…
Genetics and Habits in Obesity
photo from pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3768146 Cause or Curse? I first heard the phrase, “Generational Curse” about 20 years ago and had absolutely no idea what it was supposed to be about. Turns out that there were people around me who believed that bad traits passed from one generation to another by some mystical means other than just…
Sexy, Strong Legs!
Strong Legs are Sexy Legs! Strong legs are much more than beautiful. They are vital to protect heart health. We spend countless hours working on them. Most people don’t realize that the calf muscles are a pumping station designed to be a second heart. The Heart Needs Help Our heart is an amazing organ that…
Don’t Die Too Young My Friend
Last week, a lifelong friend of mine had a heart attack at 56 years old. He went to the doctor for a stress test of his heart and did not pass. He had a heart attack while on the treadmill and was wheeled straight into emergency surgery where it was discovered he had a 99.9…
State of Mind
Do you have a running reel of negative thoughts and possible catastrophic outcomes playing constantly in your head? So many people do. When we allow negative thoughts to loop continually we are causing a constant release of cortisol, our major stress hormone to be released. The health implications of this are huge. High cortisol levels…
Hyperinsulinemia and Your Heart
In the same light as our children can drive us crazy with less than intelligent life decisions and defiance, I bet our doctors must go stark raving mad with many of their patients. Think about this; every doctors office across this vast country gets inundated every day with waiting rooms packed full of patients who…
Vein Health
Not Just Vanity Most people never consider vein health as being anything more than a vanity issue. While varicose veins are not pretty, the aesthetics involved here is a lesser issue. Your veins are the way that your blood gets back to your heart after it is pumped throughout your body. When the veins are…
Invest In Yourself, Exercise!
I cannot fathom the reasoning that goes into ones thought process when they state they do not do healthy. I have heard this enough over the years I actually wrote an article about it which I titled, I Don’t Do Healthy and Other Dumb Quotes. Honestly, I have a difficult time getting past such an…