Heart of the Matter: Techniques Used to Detect the Risk of Heart Disease
Standard diagnostic procedures like an electrocardiogram (EKG) can detect abnormal heartbeats, inadequate blood flow and heart enlargement. A stress test that records the heart beat during exercise finds problems that reveal themselves only when the...
Heart of the Matter: Lowering Your Risk of Heart Disease
There are certain unavoidable risk factors for heart disease, like family history. But there are factors that you can modify to lower your risk of a heart attack: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, and physical inactivity. Any...
Heart of the Matter: Atherosclerosis, a Sign of Trouble for the Heart
In an average lifetime, the heart beats more than two and a half billion times, unless coronary heart disease interferes with its functioning. Narrowing of the coronary arteries that supply oxygen and nutrients to the heart is the number one killer ...
Food for Thought: Adapting Healthier Eating Habits Begins at the Grocery Store
Adapting healthier eating habits takes work and long-term commitment. The local supermarket may be a place to begin, walking down the aisles, making choices, with nutritionist Linda Gigliotti as our guide.
Food for Thought: Carbohydrates, Proteins, at Fats: Nutrients for Life
Our bodies need the nutrients found in foods to function--to power muscular movements and cell activities, repair tissues, and maintain body temperature. To carry out these metabolic activities, cells need the energy stored in three nutrients: carbo...
Heart of the Matter: Heart Attack Symptoms for Women Often Differ from Men
Heart attack symptoms for women differ from men. They may not have chest tightness or pain as a warning signal, just indigestion or weakness. Women generally experience heart disease about ten years later than men because estrogen, it is thought, pr...
Working It Out: Components of Fitness: Muscular Endurance; Aerobic Endurance
Muscular endurance is the ability to contract a muscle repeatedly. It is muscular endurance that keeps our arms and legs moving during aerobic exercise which in turns builds cardiovascular endurance. Performing a low-impact aerobic activity for thir...
Food for Thought: Link Between Disease and Nutrition, The
Disease prevention through nutrition is a relatively new area of research that explores the link between certain foods and the nutrients in them, and their ability to prevent or minimize a long list of medical conditions including heart disease, hig...