Use Your Head While Helping Your Heart

By Eliz Greene

Summer is a great time to begin or build upon heart-healthy activities, but are you putting yourself at unnecessary risk? Heart attack-survivor Eliz Greene shares some tips for playing it safe while increasing your activity this summer.

Keeping a Quality of Life with Cardiac Disease

04/23/08 Living Well

By Corie Richter

As more research on optimal treatments for cardiac disease becomes available, some patients may find themselves sacrificing a certain quality of life--like pain relief--for their therapies.

Shape Up with Spring Cleaning

04/04/08 Living Well

By Eliz Greene

Spring cleaning chores, inside and outside, can be great for your heart. Heart attack-survivor Eliz Greene offers tips to use chores to be more active and healthy.

Tips to Reduce Belly Fat and Risk of Dementia

03/28/08 Living Well

By Eliz Greene

A recent study indicates another reason to maintain a healthy weight: it decreases your risk of dementia! Heart attack-survivor Eliz Greene offers tips to decrease belly fat and increase your health.

Simple Tips for Healthy Celebrations

03/21/08 Living Well

By Eliz Greene

With Passover and Easter just around the corner, maintaining your healthy habits and your sanity can be challenging. Heart attack-survivor Eliz Greene offers tips healthy and less stressful holidays.

Modifiable Factors Associated With Long Life

02/12/08 Living Well

Controlling modifiable risk factors, like smoking habits, weight, hypertension, and diabetes, can increase life span, according to new research. Those same risk factors can greatly improve heart health and reduce problems like heart attack.

Stress at Work Linked to Heart Disease

01/23/08 Living Well

Stress may affect more than psychological health. A new study has better identified the link between work stress and coronary heart disease.

Simple Tips to Live 14 Years Longer

01/11/08 Living Well

By Eliz Greene

A recent study proved what we all know: people with healthy habits live longer. Heart attack survivor Eliz Greene offers simple tips to fit healthy habits into your busy life.

How Much Sleep Does Your Heart Need?

01/04/08 Living Well

By Eliz Greene

Sleep is essential to heart health, but few of us get the amount we need. Heart attack-survivor Eliz Greene helps you determine if you are getting enough, and offers simple tips to get the amount your heart needs.