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What are my chances of getting Heart Disease?
The Multiplier Effect 1 risk factor doubles your risk 2 risk factors quadruple your risk 3 or more risk factors can increase your risk more than tenfold By doing just 4 things – eating right, being...
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Vitamin K and Coumadin
A common concern many heart patients first share is their diet concern following a cardiac event. Blood thinners are very commonly prescribed for heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation, or post...
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Mediterranean Diet: Follow the Pyramid
The recent study on the Mediterranean diet decreasing the risk of heart attack is all over the news and the emphasis seems to be on eating healthy fats and nuts. To me that is important but don’t...
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Sodium: What gives Caregivers and Cardiac Rehab Staff Nightmares
Working cardiac rehabilitation, one wants to take time off around Saint Patrick’s day and Easter. Often patients come in with weight up 10 lbs in one to three days, short of breath, swollen, and having...
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Grocery shopping after a heart attack
Does this seem like a strange title? Well if you or a loved one has experienced a heart attack once back home the undertaking of grocery shopping can go from a one hour task to a two or three-hour...
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The Ultimate Way to Fitness
Filed under: exercise, healthy choices, Nutrition, prevention, risk factors, vegetables, Wellness Tagged: health, healthy choices, Nutrition, physical activity, prevention of heart disease
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Do you make an effort to include plant sterols in your diet?
Plant SterolsFiled under: choices, diet, health, healthy choices, Nutrition, Nutrition, prevention, vegetables, Wellness Tagged: choices. prevention, cholesterol, health, healthy eating, heart disease,...
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Binge drinking and heart risk
History of repeated binge drinking in healthy young adults caused alterations in macro- and microvascular function similar to those seen in individuals with recognized cardiovascular risk factors,...
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Resource for Heart Failure
http://www.heartfailurematters.org/EN/Warning-signs/Warning-signs Below is some of the content from the above listed web site. It is a great resource for helping heart patients to understand the...
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Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac Rehab programs now open to heart failure patients Many who could benefit from attending cardiac rehabilitation didn’t have a coverable diagnosis. Yes they had significant heart disease with...
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