Did you know that you can reduce your LDL (“bad”) cholesterol level by 10% to 20% just by giving your diet a heart-healthy makeover?
Heart-Healty Living – Part 3
Heart-Healthy Living – Part 2
In the past, heart disease was a greater problem for men than it was for women, but today heart disease and stroke take the lives of nearly as many women as men. And while most of the risk factors for heart disease are the same for both sexes, women’s hearts are affected by some special factors that don’t apply to men.
Heart-Healthy Living – Part 1
What are Triglycerides…and Why Should you Care?
Triglycerides are a type of fat found in the blood. When we eat, our body converts any calories it doesn’t use right away into triglycerides, which are stored in fat cells. Later, when we need an energy boost between meals, our body releases triglycerides to provide that energy. If we regularly eat more calories than we burn, triglyceride levels build up.
London Drugs bettercare – Baby Care
The addition of a baby to the family allows parents to enjoy the wonder of life in new ways, but it is so easy for new parents to get swept up in buying all the right equipment, reading all the right books, going to the right classes, and having a perfectly clean house. But no matter how much you prepare, there will be times when you feel like you just don’t have a clue about what’s going on with your baby. Don’t worry; that’s normal. Take reasonable precautions, follow your doctor’s advice, love your baby, and you’ll do just fine.
London Drugs bettercare – Migraine
Headaches, like people, come in all shapes and sizes. Possibly the best known type of headache is the migraine, which is believed to affect about three million Canadians. Migraine can strike anyone at any time of life, but it is three times more common in women and usually appears for the first time during early adulthood. About 80% of sufferers have a family history of migraine.
Dr. Art Hister – Pulse Rate
According to a just-released 20-year-long study of 50,000 adult Norwegians, there’s a pretty easy way – you do this sitting down and what can be easier that that? – to help you figure out if you really should be more active to lower your risk of dying of a heart attack: all you have to is sit down quietly for a few minutes and take your resting pulse rate.
A “normal” resting pulse rate is between 60 and 70 (give or take a few beats), so if your resting pulse rate stays steadily over say 80, chances are, according to this study, that you have an increased risk of dying from a heart attack, and the higher your average resting pulse rate is, this study found, the higher the heart attack risk.
But before everyone reading this panics over a slightly fast heart rate, remember that this is just a general measure, it’s not specific to any individual, and even better, even if your resting pulse rate is high, there’s a very good chance that you can offset much of that increased risk of suffering a heart attack just by doing regular exercise.
Anyone up for a jog?
Dr. Art Hister – Active Lifestyles
Although the aerobic benefits of exercise are the ones that get all the attention from fitness experts and doctors – and well they should – there are at least three other aspects to doing regular exercise that we should also all be attending to regularly, especially those of us who are aging (and although we all complain about getting older, hey, it beats the pants off the only known alternative).
So, when you’re working out, you should also focus some time and effort on resistance training – (what most people call weight training) because as we age, our muscles, like most of the rest of us, inevitably shrink but we can significantly delay that muscle shrinkage by doing a bit of weight training regularly
Balance exercises – because again like all our senses, our sense of balance also fades with age and starting in our middle years, falling becomes a major risk factor for chronic health problems (and even death from hip fractures)
Flexibility – since as I’m sure most of you have noticed, your toes seem so much harder to reach than they used to be.
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