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  • Can a Fitness Tracker Make Me Heart Smart?

    Atrial fibrillation (or AFib) is an exceptionally common rhythm disorder. It is a quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications.

  • Eating Your Way Toward Lower Blood Pressure

    Adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors can help you manage the risk of developing or worsening uncontrolled high blood pressure. This is important because when we have hypertension (also known as high blood pressure), we increase our risk of developing additional health-related complications. 

  • Warming Up: How To Get Ready To Work Out

    We all know exercise is good for us — that is, unless we overdo it and end up with a sprained ankle, pulled muscle or other injury. Warming up is the best way to get your body ready for exercise. Understanding how and when to warm up can help you get the most out of your workout while minimizing injuries. 

  • Want a Healthy Prostate? Eat Right

    Eating right can keep your heart, digestion and brain functioning properly, but did you know a healthy diet can help your prostate, too? 

  • Why Don’t I Want to Have Sex?

    Women can have a lower sex drive than men because we have lower testosterone levels. This can affect everything from sex drive to the blood flow to sexual organs to the quality of orgasms. Simply put, this difference in levels even can affect our need to have sex.

  • Binge-Watching Could be Bad for Your Sleep

    If you love watching TV shows for hours on end, it may affect your sleep, according to one recent survey.

  • Feeling “Spaced Out?” You May Need More Sleep

             

  • I Have Cancer. Can I Still Have an Active Lifestyle?

    A cancer diagnosis and treatment can wreak havoc on your life, leading to exhaustion, stress and depression. But that doesn’t mean you need to surrender your active lifestyle. In fact, there are many reasons why you shouldn’t.

  • Breastfeeding Help: Why You Need a Lactation Consultant

    You might enter motherhood convinced you’ll breastfeed for several months. Next thing you know, you’re holding a hungry newborn and realize the all-natural, beautifully bonding, gold-standard feeding system is hard, maybe unbearably so.

  • The End of Hugs and Handshakes?

    As the new school year approaches, it’s important to discuss with your child about the upcoming changes that will be in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Limiting person-to-person contact is key to reducing spread of the virus. Yet healthy socialization and development still must be fostered among school-age children. How to keep young ones from touching surfaces and not their face is a difficult task, indeed — which is why hugs and handshakes will be discouraged for now. To ensure that social connections and well-being are maintained, other types of behaviors will be encouraged instead.