Shopping for a Healthy Heart
Eating for a healthy heart begins with a trip to the supermarket. Making wise choices there will make it easier to eat healthy all week.
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Heart-Healthy Living – Part 5
Heart-Health Living – Part 4
The Heart-Brain Link
People who have moderately high cholesterol levels while in their early to mid-40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias later in life.
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Heart-Healty Living – Part 3
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-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.
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