Protect Yourself Against This Quiet Killer
You can't see it, you can't feel it, and unless you get checked, you won't even know you have it. That makes high blood pressure, or hypertension, a quiet killer, one that slowly damages your blood vessels, heart, and eyes while simultaneously ... [... more]
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Heart Disease Risk Factors You Can Change
More than anything else, how you live your life determines your likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD). Even if you have risk factors you can't do a thing about, making changes to your lifestyle can go a long way toward ensuring ... [... more]
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Season's Healthy Pick: Apples
Apples are practically rolling down the produce aisles this month. Why not try a new variety? Bite into a tart, spicy, red-striped Cameo; a sweet, rosy-yellow Cripps Pink; or a Honeycrisp, known for its cidery taste and firm texture. Plus, you'll ... [... more]
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Sleep, Stress, and Worry
Stress. Its biochemical surge tosses us into a fast-paced hyper-alertness that allows us to dodge an oncoming car, sidestep a fist, or save the data on a crashing computer. But that's in the short term. In the long term, the biochemistry of ... [... more]
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Give Yourself a Break!
By Cynthia Dermody From Reader's Digest You're extra busy at work this month, but you need to find time to unwind: Doing too much can make you sick. Those who clock 51-plus hours a week are 30% more likely to have high blood pressure than those ... [... more]
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How Quick Getaways Bring Stress Relief
By Lisa Miller Fields From Reader's Digest Originally in Atlas of America If you live in Arizona, don't go to New York; you'll be in transit all weekend. Better: a quick jaunt to Vegas. It's off-season, which means no stress-inducing crowds. Take ... [... more]
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More New Medical Breakthroughs
But wasn't that disease killed off a long time ago? While the smallpox virus was officially stamped out in 1980, unknown samples of the virus may still be out there. And if they ended up in terrorists' hands, the results could be devastating, ... [... more]
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Drug Label Lingo
By Jennifer Nelson From Reader's Digest Carole Lynch downed her osteoporosis pills with just a sip of water, even though the sticker said to drink a full glass. Then she felt a burning in her throat. Turns out the pill can get stuck and damage ... [... more]
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Effortless Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol
February is Heart Health month, and for many Americans, that means focusing on ways to lower your risk of heart disease -- the number one killer among both men and women. And about half of all adults in American have cholesterol levels that are ... [... more]
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Shaking Your Salt Habit
By Cynthia Dermody From Reader's Digest The average American gets about twice as much blood-pressure-boosting sodium a day as the recommended 1,500 to 2,300 mg limit. Not every pretzel lover develops hypertension, but some 73 million of us have ... [... more]
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What Exactly Is Cholesterol?
Although cholesterol has gotten a bad rap over the years, it's not, by itself, a bad thing. Cholesterol is a soft, faintly yellow, naturally occurring waxy substance found in cell walls and membranes throughout your body, including your brain, ... [... more]
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Blood Pressure: The Cold Facts
By Nancy Coveney From Reader's Digest Cold weather may cause dangerous changes in blood pressure, say Veterans Affairs researchers. Their study of 443,632 veterans with high blood pressure found that we're more likely to have high readings during ... [... more]
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