Blood pressure is an indication of how hard your heart has to work to pump blood around your body. If your blood pressure reading is high, it means that your heart is working too hard and is under too much strain. Unsurprisingly, high blood pressure is a significant risk factor for several life-threatening illnesses including:
I’m confident that before you found my website, you had heard of heart disease. Perhaps not all the different types and risk factors, but that you were aware of heart disease in general. It’s a common medical condition, mentioned alongside cancer and diabetes. Not everyone has heard of cardiovascular disease (CVD), though. My mission is
There’s a consistent tragedy among heart surgery patients: they believed disease was inevitable. Where lung cancer victims may express regret for smoking, and an alcoholic may wish they’d made different choices when they develop cirrhosis, patients with heart disease are often oblivious that their diet affects their heart health. Some do make the connection and
Many people find the idea of heart healthy eating confusing, with so many restrictions and news stories about the latest discovery that’s been supposedly linked to heart disease. The truth is simpler than we’ve been led to believe: improving heart health isn’t complicated. If heart disease prevention is important to you, your number one priority
Are you familiar with the feeling of staring at your computer, unable to get any work done? Where you know what you should do, but just can’t focus? It doesn’t feel strictly like lethargy or procrastination, but you know there’s a lack of mental clarity that makes it difficult to get in the zone and
The saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ is absolutely true for heart health. While today’s surgical interventions and medications make it possible for more people to survive heart problems, you don’t have to become ill before you pay attention to your heart health. Heart disease prevention doesn’t have to be difficult or inconvenient, and is
Heart disease is a huge problem in the USA. Based on data from 2021, the CDC reports that: One person dies every 33 seconds to heart disease, which adds up to 695,000 Americans each year Heart disease accounts for 1 in every 5 deaths Heart disease costs the United States more than $239.9 billion per
Poor health has become normalized. For ourselves and those around us, we consider it the natural order to feel tired, be prescribed medication, and gain weight.
Improving your metabolic health is one of the most beneficial things you can ever do. There are markers for identifying how metabolically healthy a person is, which means that it’s an objective monitor. It isn’t based on how you feel, nor do you become metabolically healthy because you started a new healthy habit. Metabolic health
If you worry that eating healthy costs a lot of money, I’ve got good news: it doesn’t have to. It’s a persistent idea that low-income families can’t afford healthy foods, and in this post you’re going to see that it’s not true. Although you can find pre-packaged foods with a lower sticker price, this can
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