All posts tagged healthy eating
Ways to maintain your Heart-healthy resolutions
A New Year’s resolution is a commitment that a person makes to one or more personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. For most Americans, holiday eating is followed by weight gain and a New Year’s resolution to lose weight. …
SimpleScience@Heart: Average American has at least 4 of 7 major heart-health risk factors
The average American has at least four of the seven major factors that compromise their heart health, according to a new study. The American Heart Association defines ideal heart
Finals Week: I’m Stressing Out!
It’s final exam week. You have 3 projects due, one exam, an interview at 3 p.m., and your significant other is asking you over tonight to “talk.” You
Heart healthy Thanksgiving travel tips
According to AAA, an estimated 43 million Americans will be traveling over 50 miles from home to arrive to their holiday destination this year. You can bet that
SimpleScience@Heart: Latinos meet 5 of American Heart Association Life’s Simple 7 goals
Latinos fare better than other Americans on five out of seven American Heart Association Life’s Simple 7 heart-healthy goals. In a poll of nearly 16,000 Latino adults, they had
SimpleScience@Heart: Eating flaxseed may lower blood pressure
Eating flaxseed may help lower blood pressure in people with hypertension. In a study, people who added 30 grams of milled flaxseed to their diet every day for six
Late season tomatoes, a tasty end of summer dish
With summer coming to an end and fall starting to roll in, it seems like everyone with a garden is offering up extra vegetables they may have available.
Get your Heart in the Game!
I love October. Not for the cooler weather, the changing leaves or the costume parties-- I love October for the baseball! The most exciting weeks of the nation’s
Simple Science @Heart: Drink wine to reduce high blood pressure – just leave out the alcohol
Good news for you red wine lovers: New research shows that a few glasses a day may lower your blood pressure significantly. And now for the bad news:
Simple Science @Heart: Black stroke survivors face greater risk from high blood pressure
Blacks who survive strokes caused by bleeding in the brain are more likely than whites to have high blood pressure a year later, a new study says. Continued high







