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This month, I’m vacationing in California where it’s a beautiful sunny summer. Perfect weather for exercising my heart, but I must confess that I’m busier shopping. :D Matt Thornton of Six & Out, however, is an athlete who would definitely take advantage of California living. His Hearty Habits make me want [...]
Even the occasional meal high in saturated fat, including red meat, whole milk, and butter, can damage your arteries and contribute to plaque build-up. So if you’re like me and allow yourself one really bad meal or two (or three) while you’re on vacation, think twice because any unhealthy food contributes to atherosclerosis - hardening [...]
Today’s Hearty Habits from Cory Aldrich of Baldiness are good to remember especially considering my post yesterday regarding divorce and heart disease. Also don’t forget about the probable effect of stress on Enron executive Ken Lay’s untimely death.
I selected the best genetic material available from my parents in order to have a naturally high metabolism [...]
In a study that’s sure to cause consternation amongst divorced women (and possibly the men they marry after divorce), researchers have found that women have a higher risk of heart disease after divorce as compared to those who stay married.
Women who divorce are 60 per cent more likely to develop heart disease in later life [...]
There is a strong link between obesity and heart disease. Given the increasing problem of obesity across the globe (and “epidemic!” as some would say), obesity vaccines could be part of our future. Health conscious and plastic surgery happy accepting society would embrace it, treating the vaccine like the elixir of youth. Life [...]
In men with a body mass index of less than 25 (considered relatively slim), erectile dysfunction (ED) appears to predict later development of metabolic syndrome which may lead to cardiovascular disease. According to the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases, about 70 percent of ED cases are caused by diabetes, kidney disease, chronic alcoholism, multiple [...]
Today’s Hearty Habits features Heather Ivester of Lively Women who I will be almost close enough to touch when I arrive in Atlanta later in the day from London (transiting on the way to San Francisco). Heather is aiming for smaller portions and a smaller waistline in today’s Hearty Habits.
Well, up until last weekend [...]
More evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) –COX-2 inhibitors*, ibuprofen, naproxen–may increase the risk of heart attacks. A Finnish case-control study comparing heart attack patients with matched control subjects found that “current use of any type of NSAID was associated with 40 percent increased risk of having a heart attack.”
Conflicting evidence abounds when it comes [...]
Roy Thayers of west London needed an angioplasty but the UK National Health Service (NHS) put him on a nine-month wait list. What to do? A retired painter and decorator, he had only £10 in the bank; less than 1% of what he needed for the £9,000 operation at private Hammersmith Hospital.
Feeling that [...]
Today’s Hearty Habits come from Laura Bzowy, writer of CFS Squared, a blog about chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS). FYI, the CDC says that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) can be as debilitating as severe heart disease and patients may experience irregular heartbeat. Let’s see how Laura
maintains her peaceful equilibrium.
I aim [...]
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