Today I want to talk about another factor that has been connected to  heart disease. Triglycerides.
What are triglycerides?
If you’ve ever had a blood workup you’ve undoubtedly been informed of your cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Triglycerides are a kind of fat present in your body. Calories which your body doesn’t need immediately get […]

On a lighter note today, my mom sent me this via email. I HAD to post it to my blog.
THANKS MOMMY!!!
MEDICAL QUESTIONS EXPLAINED
QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR HMO:
Q. What does HMO stand for?
A. This is actually […]

Life is stressful. Life is noisy. Our brains suffer from major information overload (at least mine does!). Stress does nasty things to our health, and particulary our heart health.
Meditation is a way to help your body achieve total relaxation. Meditation helps you get rid of all the “noisy” thoughts and images raging in your mind, […]

Side effects of stress. Oh my. Just the word “stress” is enough to stress you out.
Stress is something that we live with constantly in the 21st century. All the wonderful technological advancements haven’t done anything to lessen the stress anxiety in our lives. If anything, the stress has increased to almost unbearable […]

We want to be healthy. That’s a given.
Optimum nutrition is what we want to aim for. It’ll never be perfect nutrition because we don’t live in a perfect world. But we want to achieve optimum nutrition in a nurturing way.
So, what are some ways that women can NURTURE ourselves? We spend our entire lives […]

Do you get daily exercise?
Alot of people groan when they hear the dreaded words “daily exercise”. I know Iused to. Who can be bothered, right?
But the thing about daily exercise is that it doesn’t have to be boring. And it doesn’t have to be HARD. Some people love to get out in the fresh air […]

Today I want to talk a tad about cholesterol since high cholesterol is one of the risk factors for heart disease.
I’ll bet you know that there are two different kinds of cholesterol.
LDL is the “low down”, “bad” cholesterol which is purported to clog our arteries and cause heart disease. LDL stands for Low Density […]

According to recent research, one out of 4 women in the U.S. is suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is actually the number one cause of death of women in the U.S.
It’s better to prevent heart disease than to have to treat it once it’s diagnosed.
Once the disease is diagnosed it […]

Women take alot of flak from doctors and health practitioners for being even slightly overweight. The weight usually takes the blame for every possible ailment, from high cholesterol to back or knee pain. Generally, the recommendation is to lose weight in order to lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure and ease the pressure on all […]