Living Well
Simple Tips to Live 14 Years Longer
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?
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.
Reasonable New Years Resolutions
By Eliz Greene
Heart attack-survivor Eliz Greene offers suggestions for making New Years Resolutions to improve your health.
Lifestyle Choices To Control Blood Pressure
When blood pressure readings come back less than desirable, there are a few natural ways to manage and control those levels. Healthy lifestyle choices have been shown to have a significant impact on blood pressure. Being physically fit, exercising regularly, proper diet, quitting smoking, and monitoring alcohol intake can also impact blood pressure and overall heart health.
Heart-Warming Holidays, Never a Better Time
At home with for Thanksgiving, I learned to value the love of a family and the gift of health. There's no better time than the present to start making healthy choices.
More Stress Associated with Greater Heart Risk
Men and women—especially women—who report multiple sources of stress have a significantly greater risk of heart disease, according to a new study.
Energy Drinks May Pose Heart Risk
Downing an "energy drink" may boost blood pressure as well as energy, researchers said in a small study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2007.
Personal Victory Over Heart Disease
Inspirational stories of overcoming heart disease are everywhere. Sadly, only a few of them are told publicly. However when such stories do reach the news, they remind us of the reality of living with, fighting, and beating heart disease.
Healthy Lifestyle Decreased Heart Attack in Women
Women who eat a healthy diet, drink moderate amounts of alcohol, are physically active, maintain a healthy weight and do not smoke have a significantly reduced risk of heart attack, according to a report in the October 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Chronic Job Strain Increases Risk of Second Heart Disease Event
Persons who reported chronic job strain after a first heart attack (myocardial infarction) had about twice the risk of experiencing another coronary heart disease event such as heart attack of unstable angina than those without chronic job strain, according to a study in the October 10 issue of JAMA.


