Stride For Better Health Did you know that walking is one of the best activities you can do to dramatically increase your level of health?Many people today are afflicted with "coach-potato-itis!" They come home from work, switch on their TVs and forget that their bodies need maintenance But one day reality comes crashing through when their doctors say, "You have a problem!"This article will show you a simple strategy for improving your health through a fun and inexpensive walking program ...

Heart Health: Five Things You Need To Know About Your Heart The heart is one of the most important organs in your body, and in some ways the most familiar; we know we have to keep it healthy to live well, most of us know someone who has had a heart problem or even a heart attack, and it’s one of the few organs that we can actually feel as it functions (just put your hand in the middle of ...

Lower Your Cholesterol And Increase Your Chance Of Stroke Recently, The New York Times published an article entitled – “US calls for major cholesterol reductions” and which was also printed in numerous local papersSounds like a great way to fight heart disease, right?Let’s take a look at what the article does not tell you about lowering your cholesterol Because you must understand the effects of artificially lowering your cholesterol levels without implementing other strategies which are crucial to your healthBecause ...

Healthy Habits Incorporate these HEALTHY HABITS in your lifeFollowing healthy habits can statistically increase your lifespan by up to 11 years! That's a lot of extra time to get to live, and you can add it to your life by following a few simple habits:1 Never skip your breakfast Breakfast is the most important meal of the day Still, many of us skip it thinking that it will help us shed pounds When you skip breakfast your blood sugar levels, ...

Hypertension High Blood Pressure: How To Improve Life Threatening Weight-related Diseases The American Heart Association estimates that one of three Americans have have hypertension And yet many of us don’t know what it is, why it’s dangerous, and what the treatment options areWhat Is Hypertension?Hypertension is a fancy medical word for high blood pressureYour blood carries nutrients and oxygen to your body, and picks up waste like carbon dioxide The heart pumps the blood through “pipes” - blood vessels called ...

Eating Disorders - Anorexia Nervosa Effects In this next article in our continuing series we're going to discuss the effects of Anorexia Nervosa on a person, as well as going over some facts and figures The main assault of this disease is that it focuses on self starvation Since the body needs food as a basic means for survival, the effects of this disease are numerous to say the least Because the body is not getting enough nutrition, it is forced to slow down in order to ...

Overweight? Watch Out! A new study shows that being overweight in mid-life substantially increased the risk of dying of heart disease later when they get older This finding is based on a research by Northwestern University as result of tracking 17,643 patients for 3 decades Even people with healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels when the study began are not safer Overweight people are more likely to have heart disease, as they are more likely to have a higher blood pressure and cholesterol Both hike the risk of ...

Low Blood Pressure - Why Is Your Blood Pressure Low? Why is your blood pressure low?As a doctor with an interest in the subject, I’m often asked if a low blood pressure is normal or if such a reading indicates some abnormal process in the body? In fact – it can be difficult to precisely define what we mean by low blood pressure It all really depends on what’s normal for you as an individualIf 1000 people had their blood ...

Cholesterol - What Is It And Is It All Bad? Cholesterol Boy, there sure is a lot of noise being made about keeping your cholesterol low You can see ads for all kinds of drugs all over the TV to help lower your cholesterol Go to a doctor's office and the first thing you see hanging on the wall is a cholesterol chart So what exactly IS cholesterol and what's the big deal about it? In this article we'll try to answer some of those common questions For ...

7 Reasons To Become Vegetarian/vegan 1 With businesses trying to get more money from their meat, livestock is pumped full of steroids, growth hormones, water, antibiotics and more This stays in their flesh, so when you eat it, guess what? It'll accumulate in your body Most people don't like taking their own medicine much less their food's!!! 2 Scientific studies have suggested that mortality rates from cancer and coronary heart disease are lower in those who avoid meat 3 Vegetarian diets (and in particular vegan diets) are also higher ...