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Chill Out: Anger Is Bad For the Heart
National Heart Health Month may be drawing to a close, but keeping your ticker healthy is daily affair. In fact, matters of the heart are affected by what goes on in your head; chronic negative emotions, like anger and stress, might damage the heart.
In a recent Yale University study, anger appeared to interfere with the electrical signals of heart patients.
Wear Your Love on Your Chest
February is heart health month, and even though Valentine's Day is long gone, you should still being showing your heart some love. And why not declare your love of activities that help you take care of your heart, like running and yoga?
Lucy has created two tees to help you show how you "heart" your heart.
Heidi Klum Is a Heart Health Champion
Heart health month is all about raising awareness for heart disease and the ways we can prevent it. Heidi Klum is fully on board with the mission and has joined forces with Diet Coke and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. According to Shape, the multitasking model designed an exclusive Red Dress charm (the symbol for women’s heart disease awareness), which she’ll show off at next week's Academy Awards.
Heart of Truth Red Dress Fashion Show
Fashion Week kicked off last Friday with a show featuring dresses of a single color: Red. The Heart of Truth Red Dress Fashion Show, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, celebrates the red dress symbol in the most literal way. Pairing over 20 fashion designers with 20 celebs, The Heart of Truth Fashion show hopes to raise awareness of heart disease and how it affects women.
National Wear Red Day Is Tomorrow
Did you know that heart disease is the number one killer among women? If you did, congrats but there are a lot of folks out there who are unaware. So let's help get the word out.
What Your Heart Rate Says About You
A lot of us don't think about our hearts as often as we should, which makes sense because we can't see our hearts to assess them. Hopping on a scale or realizing that your jeans don't fit as well as they used to are telltale signs that your weight has changed, but measuring heart health isn't so easy. Or is it?
5 Keys to a Healthy Heart
The 14th of this month may be devoted to the person that holds the key to your heart, but every day in February is a celebration of heart health. According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the number one killer of women, so we need to do everything we can to protect ourselves. Start the slideshow to see five keys to a healthy heart.
Heart Healthy Foods
We all know that heart health is dependent on many factors, and what you eat is definitely one of them. It's not longer just about cutting out the bad foods though, it's also about adding the good foods. WebMD has compiled a list of the top 15 heart healthy foods, some you may already be eating on a daily basis.
Label Able: Heart Healthy Choices, Part Two
In the last days of Heart Health Month, we've been focusing on ways to get our hearts healthy now and in the future. One key way to keeping healthy is to smarten up at the grocery store when reading labels. Here's just a few tips to help you figure out what it all means on the front of the label, and the back:
- Sterols and stanols.
Label Able: Heart Healthy Choices, Part One
In the last days of Heart Health Month, we've been focusing on ways to get our hearts healthy now and in the future. One key way to keep healthy is to smarten up at the grocery store when reading labels. Here are just a few tips to help you figure out what it all means on the front of the label, and the back:
- The claim, "May reduce the risk of heart disease."
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