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Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Especially for Black patients, inaccurate readings have imperiled care and may have contributed to deaths during the pandemic, experts told an advisory panel.
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Heart failure occurs when something damages the heart muscle or reduces the heart’s ability to pump effectively. Therefore, the body’s demands for oxygen-rich blood go unmet. The earliest indicators of heart failure can easily b
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Regular exercise changes the look and workings of the human heart. And researchers are discovering that different sports affect the heart differently.
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Among adults 55 and younger, chest pain is the predominant symptom of a heart attack, but women tend to experience a greater number of additional symptoms.
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New research shows having good heart health is important for cognitive function.
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Doing yoga may be a good way to protect against heart disease, particularly if you cannot do more vigorous exercise, research suggests.
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Long working hours - more than 60 hours a week - may increase the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new study by researchers from South Korea.
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Four out of five heart attacks in men could be prevented by adopting a super-healthy lifestyle that avoids junk food, smoking, excessive drinking and lack of exercise, a study has - New Zealand Herald
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A new study that looked at more than 451,680 participants over seven years asked the group to report their fruit consumption, whether it be never, monthly, 1-3 days per week, 4-6 days per week, or daily.
The researchers found that compared to people who never eat fruit, those who eat fruit every day cut their heart disease risk by 25 to 40%. Those who ate the most amount of fruit also had much lower blood pressure compared to the participants who never ate fruit.
You know wht they say, an apple a day..... if you can't stomach whole fruit, perhaps try juicing fruit. Better still, use your juicing machine to juice carrots, celery, beetroots ginger and green apples. Hmmm delicious and healthy too!
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ABOUT 103,000 of us will fall victim every year and survivors can be left feeling frightened and emotionally drained. Dr Keith Souter has some practical advice on how to cope.
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Depression isn't all in the mind - it can cause changes in the body that raise the risk of heart disease
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Men who exercised regularly after age 40 had similar heart benefits to men who started exercising before they turned 30
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If you've never had a heart attack, the FDA says you can put down the aspirin bottle
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Having a hot temper may increase your risk of having a heart attack or stroke, according to researchers.
Rage often precedes an attack and may be the trigger, say the US researchers who trawled medical literature.
They identified a dangerous period of about two hours following an outburst when people were at heightened risk.
But they say more work is needed to understand the link and find out if stress-busting strategies could avoid such complications.
People who have existing risk factors, such as a history of heart disease, are particularly susceptible, they told the European Heart Journal.
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So-called silent heart attacks, with signs and symptoms that are mild or seem unrelated to the heart, have long concerned cardiovascular expert Dr. Chauncey Crandall. So Dr.
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If everyone over the age of 50 ate an apple a day, 8,500 deaths from heart attacks and strokes could be avoided every year in the UK, say researchers.
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It seems so unfair. They don't smoke, they eat well and they exercise regularly. So why do healthy people have heart attacks?
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Forget the pills -- there's new evidence that exercise may be as effective as medications in treating heart disease and diabetes. Doctors now advise everyone, from young children to older adults, to become more physically active.
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Now there's a number for how effective lifestyle changes can be in protecting the heart and preventing deaths from heart attack and stroke. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., but a new report from the U.S.
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HEART attack survivors are gambling with death - refusing to quit smoking, failing to cut their cholesterol or even take their medicine.
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The links between advancing age and deaths during gruelling exercise are strengthening.
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James Gandolfini's death is a reminder that everyone is vulnerable to heart disease
Heart disease lives in all of us. Let's do what we can to reduce the risk factors (eat well, exercise and manage stress) and get regular health checks. :-)
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Start slow and add a little more over time. Make it feel as if when finished feel like you could have done more easily. Begin exercising at this intensity for several sessions before making large ...
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Hamish Carter is the latest in a series of elite endurance athletes to have encountered heart problems. An electrical charge was recently used to shock it back into normal rhythm.
Now emerging scientific studies are finding evidence that appears to support that. "Running too fast, too far and for too many years may speed one's progress towards the finish line of life," concluded a December editorial in British journal, Heart.