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Heart-Healthy Living

2/12/2021

Quick tips to keep your heart beating strong all year round.

February is American Heart Month. A great reminder to take care of our hearts as a part of our self-care. Heart-healthy living involves understanding your risk, making choices, and taking steps to reduce your chances of getting heart disease.

Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women. But you can do a lot to protect your heart and stay healthy.

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❤ Heart Health - Know Your Numbers

2/20/2019

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Heart disease isn’t just happening to older adults, it is happening to younger adults more and more often. This is partly because the conditions that lead to heart disease are happening at younger ages. February is Heart Month, and it is the perfect time to learn about your risk for heart disease. You can’t change what you don’t know, that is why knowing your risk is critical to your heart health. The first step is knowing your numbers.

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Strategies to lower blood pressure with diet and lifestyle changes instead of medications.

8/14/2018

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Diet & Lifestyle Strategies to Lower Blood Pressure

Today one in three American adults have hypertension and another one in three have prehypertension. That means that two-thirds of Americans are affected by high blood pressure. High blood pressure treatment is costing $48.6 billion annually to treat and it is also a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of death in the United States.

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Nine Ways to Nourish Your Heart ❤

2/22/2018

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Your heart works hard every day to take care of you, but when was the last time you stopped to think about what you can do to nourish for your heart?

February is Heart Health Month. ❤ Taking care of your heart’s health may not be at the top of your list. Unfortunately, too many of us take this amazing organ for granted, and heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men and women in the US. The good news is that heart disease for many people is preventable. One strategy for taking care of your heart is proper nutrition – feeding the body nutrients that promote health and life.

The leading factors contributing to heart disease are poor eating habits, weight problems, lack of physical exercise, stress, anxiety and sleep deprivation. All of these derive from our behavior, not our nature. The good news is that we can make changes and turn our situation around if we choose to. Here are some tips on how to nourish your heart.

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