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A New Year's Resolution only takes about 2 minutes to make but then you have a whole year to break it. This year why not make a REALISTIC healthy resolution you can keep.

You may want to:
• Quit smoking
• Lose weight
• Eat healthier
• Exercise more

We all have made resolutions that we don't stick to - a couple of days, weeks or months go by and we start falling back into some of our bad habits… You may get bored with an exercise routine or diet, get a craving that you cannot resist. Remember i… Continue

The Holidays are a joyous time to celebrate and spend time with family and friends. But they have also been found to increase the risk for heart problems. Heart related deaths and heart failure hospitalizations rise sharply around the winter holidays. Several triggers for this increased risk have been reported in recent studies:
• Our normal routine is disrupted - we may be traveling, eating and drinking differently, under more stress and exercising less
• Cold weather can also be a trigger (esp… Continue

So you are probably wondering…..do the beverages I drink really make that much of a difference? They are only liquids, right? Liquids “go right through me” so how much of an ill effect can they have?

You have probably heard the old saying “You are what you eat?” Well, it is true, but “You are what you drink” also!

Beverage Guidance Panel

The Beverage Guidance Panel is a group of nutrition experts from the United States, which formed several years ago. The purpose of this group was to review t… Continue

Women work, clean, cook, take care of children, spouses, parents, pets - but sometimes forget to take care of themselves. Their knowledge about health often comes from a two minute news report or short article. But every week there is some new research report telling us what we need t… Continue

It’s February Heart Month has arrived....

Heart disease remains the #1 killer of men and women in this country.

The Main Risk Factors for heart disease include:

· Increased age (55 or older for women, 45 or older for men) (Post menopause in women - loss of estrogen dramtically increases risk)

· A Family History of Heart Disease

· High Blood Pressure

· High Total Cholesterol, or High LDL (Bad) Cholesterol, or Low HDL (Good) Cholesterol, or High Triglycerides

· Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome… Continue