Tag: CardioSentials
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Set Your Heart on Health
Read more: Set Your Heart on HealthFebruary is American Heart Month and the perfect time to take an active approach to better heart health. Even if you have a family history, heart disease and attacks are preventable. Lower your risk by incorporating these suggestions into your healthy lifestyle.
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The Truth Behind 7 Cholesterol Myths
Read more: The Truth Behind 7 Cholesterol MythsEveryone should understand how cholesterol factors into a healthy lifestyle, no matter what your age, body type or family history. Have you been tricked into believing a cholesterol myth?
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5 Healthy Reasons to Fall in Love
Read more: 5 Healthy Reasons to Fall in LoveWe’ve all experienced that extra spring in our step, tingle in our toes and butterflies in our stomach that come from being in love. But did you know being in love also has health benefits?
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Garlic: Good for More than Keeping Vampires Away
Read more: Garlic: Good for More than Keeping Vampires AwayGarlic and wooden stakes have historically been though for their protection against night-walking vampires. But garlic holds many other protective benefits. Garlic contains manganese, tryptophan, phosphorous, copper, protein, vitamin B1, B6 and C at only 42 calories per ounce. Vitamin C: Prevents the oxidation of your LDL (bad cholesterol). Oxidized LDL can lead to damage…
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Take Steps to Improve Cholesterol
Read more: Take Steps to Improve CholesterolMany people nonchalantly visit the doctor for a routine check-up, have a few blood tests, and then whamo! Much to their surprise, they find out they have high cholesterol.
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Could You Have a Heart Attack and Not Know It?
Read more: Could You Have a Heart Attack and Not Know It?Despite the important focus on breast cancer, heart disease is actually the leading killer of women in the United States. One problem is that heart attack symptoms in women aren’t always obvious or the same as in men. Less than 30 percent of women reported having chest pain or discomfort before their heart attacks, and…
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CoQ10 May Reduce Muscle Injuries
Read more: CoQ10 May Reduce Muscle InjuriesAthletes of all levels may have a new nutritional ally in the fight against muscle fatigue and injury. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study published in the British Journal of Nutrition reported that elite Japanese kendo athletes who consumed coenzyme Q10 during 20 days of rigorous training had significantly lower levels of key markers associated with increased…
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My Story: Steve Tucker
Read more: My Story: Steve TuckerGetting His Life Back in His Hands Steve Tucker is a former autoworker from Affton, Missouri. In the years before he retired, Steve underwent a series of surgeries to repair his foot after it was crushed in a workplace accident.
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My Story: Joseph Wojcik
Read more: My Story: Joseph WojcikJoseph Wojcik, VP – International Recent results: Ironman Mexico – December 2010 (10 hours, 42 minutes), Boston Marathon April 2011 (3 hours, 23 minutes)