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Your Oral Health Can Affect Your Overall Health

Avoiding cavities isn’t the only reason to see your dentist at least once a year. Oral health is a strong indicator of overall health. Not only do regular dental visits protect you against cavities and gingivitis, but your dentist may discover symptoms of cardiovascular disease or diabetes or he may notice cancerous lesions in your [...]

Hot Flashes May Recharge Heart

Finally, good news about menopausal hot flashes. While you were standing there at the open window, your body dripping with sweat, flapping your clothes in a desperate effort to cool off, that thermonuclear blast of hormonal heat may have been giving your heart a healthy little boost. A new study shows that women who suffer [...]

Heart Healthy News

Flu shots cut heart attack risk. Getting an annual flu shot not only wards off the fever and chills, it decreases your risk of having a first heart attack by 19%. Early immunization between September and November doubles your protection. In a recent study, people who were immunized early in the fall cut their heart [...]

7 Things that Define Good Heart Health

According to the American Heart Association, these 7 things will keep your heart healthy:

Never smoked or quit over a year ago.
Body mass index of less than 25.
150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity a week.
Healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
Cholesterol of less than 200.
Blood pressure below 120/80.
Fasting blood [...]

Watch Your Salt!

The Food and Drug Administration is urging Americans to watch their salt intake. Failed efforts to get the food industry to voluntarily reduce the amount of salt added to processed and restaurant foods has forced the Institute of Medicine to lobby to FDA to implement mandatory standards that would reduce the sodium content in food sold [...]

Chocolate Eggs Part of a Healthy Diet!

If you have a few chocolate Easter eggs still sitting around, here’s some good news. Small amounts of chocolate lower blood pressure, according to the European Heart Journal. In a recent study, people who snacked on small amounts of chocolate had lower blood pressure and were 39% less likely to have a heart attack or [...]