Heart disease is the biggest killer among Americans, but women who exercise, eat healthy and don’t smoke may cut their risk of heart disease by 80 percent, according to a recent study. Medications are effective in reducing heart disease risk, but they are often expensive and have side effects, so the study’s researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle on heart disease risk as an alternative to medication.
Archive for February, 2012
Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Heart Disease Risk
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012The Benefits
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012When compared to other weight training or resistance exercises, the power clean requires a higher degree of energy and mental concentration due to its complex technical factor, multi-muscle or total body requirement, and explosive anaerobic power. (more…)
Did You Know November Is Diabetes Awareness Month
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012November is a time when many of us are preoccupied with Thanksgiving, the first course in the line-up of holidays in which many Americans overeat, indulging in pie, cookies, candies and other sweet, fattening foods. However, November is also National Diabetes Awareness Month — which is appropriate timing since diabetes is often associated with sugar.
Grief A Natural Process
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Grieving often happens in stages. The first stage is frequently marked by a combination of numbness, shock, and denial.
You may feel as though you’re in a trance and unable to make decisions. Many people feel so drained or so badly neglect their own physical needs (such as eating or sleeping) that they get sick. Others try to deal with the shock by pretending it’s not so bad: “Don’t worry about me, I’m fine.” (more…)
Reducing Your Risk of Heart Attack Never Sounded So Easy
Friday, February 10th, 2012American women now have one less excuse to avoid exercise: a study shows that even moderate exercise can reduce the risk of heart disease substantially.
In the Aug. 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, an analysis of the exercise habits of 72,488 female nurses (between the ages of 40 and 65) during an 8-year period revealed that moderate exercise, such as walking as little as 1 to 3 hours per week, had as much as a 30 percent reduction in coronary events (heart attack and sudden death) during the study period. (more…)
Facing the Empty Nest
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012Like so many other women, Sue Tarrant has spent most of her married life tending to her husband and three daughters. She followed her husband around the world as he climbed the ladder of a foreign service career. She long ago lost count of the soccer games, swim meets and dance recitals she attended to cheer her daughters on. (more…)
Bruce’s Journal Week Three
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012This week was a rough one. From Wednesday on, I worked until at least 10 in the evening and I had to eat at work or at nearby restaurants. Because of this extra work, I was unable to complete my exercise routine for the week, and I fear the same might be true next week.