Walking away from a stressful situation can help reduce your holiday stress triggers. Here’s to walking, walking away, and other habits to build on now for heart-healthier holidays.
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Plan Now To Avoid Holiday Heart Attacks (Part one of a two-part series.)
Football season’s tailgating chow and beer can combine with holiday stress to trigger a “Christmas Coronary” or a “Hanukah Heart Attack.” Plan now to avoid later.
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Get one step closer to living Atlanta healthy with the Heart Walk Atlanta
Help help raise awareness of the risks of heart disease, by supporting the Atlanta Heart Walk. It promotes the benefits of exercise and cardiovascular health.
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What are we teaching our children by our reliance on mobile screens? Are we modelling “phones as pacifiers”?
Screen Junkies take note: Our dependence on screens doesn’t come without consequences to our health and relationships.
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Food is medicine, yet very few doctors report feeling properly trained to give diet and nutrition advice, despite the increase in obesity related illness. This is changing, though slowly.
A recent study says what you eat is the single most important factor in preventing premature death and disease.
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Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act keeps status quo in Georgia; here’s a review of Frequently Asked Questions
What where those “four words” that could have repealed the Affordable Care Act? How many Georgians are breathing a sigh of relief over the law being upheld? How many Americans?
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How do our emotions affect us? There’ll be lots of talk about mental health with the release of Pixar’s newest movie Inside Out. How do you handle emotions? What are some healthy, natural ways to deal with anxiety?
Pixar’s newest film starring personified emotions does not include a character for anxiety, an emotion felt by most at one point or another. Here’s valuable information on different types of anxiety, as well as some natural ways to help.
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Nuts? Sleep trackers? Cross Fit? Which fads to keep and which to lose? How will sticking with the foundations make the biggest difference re: brain-cleaning sleep and age-defying exercise?
“Breakthrough” health information comes at us from every direction. Discerning fad from foundational behavior, and keeping the foundational behavior, is what makes the real difference.
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What diet really will make a difference? What are three actions that will help make any sane diet work better?
Choosing which nutrition advice you should follow is complicated. Check out these three “reboot” diets to try, plus critically important recommendations.
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How can we cut the waste in healthcare? To be part of the solution, are we willing to focus on overall wellness and plan our own end-of-life care?
As healthcare waste in unsustainable, combatting the annual $750 billion waste mandatory. A care system that focuses on overall wellness and end-of-life planning are among ideas shared this week.
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What can we do to improve our medical system? The $300 billion question.
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Whatever side of the political spectrum you fall on and however you feel about Obamacare, a bipartisan accepted fact is that healthcare in America costs too much. In the United States, we spend more money on healthcare per person ($8745 per person in 2012) than any other […]
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What are some healthy prescriptions for chronic pain?
Chronic pain is stressful; are exercise, acupuncture, and other alternatives options for you?
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What are the easiest vegetables for beginning gardeners?
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Last week, I wrote about Victory Gardens. I wished they’d make a comeback in the States, since the health benefits of gardens go beyond the simple nutritional value of the produce grown in them. Gardens, or rather the act of gardening, can help lower blood pressure, prevent […]
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How many ways can gardening improve your health?
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Google “nutritional benefits” and the first items that pop up are all veggies. Kale, mushrooms and beets all top the list. All those foods are good for you (save poisonous varieties of mushrooms!) but what’s missing from that list are the nutritional benefits of the place those […]
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Less meat; more vegetables better for humans and our environment. Start a garden?
For the first time, the USDA guidelines consider the health of people and the environment. Since meat production leaves a massive carbon footprint, recommended meat consumption will be lowered.
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Ready to be proactive in the war against allergens?
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Spring started a couple weeks ago and the first major spring celebration, Easter, is around the corner. But one harbinger of spring beat both events to the punch: allergy season is back. In some parts of the country, allergy season 2015 started even before spring did on […]
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Did you know vein disease affects about half of people over the age of 50?
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Last week, I wrote about venous disease, specifically deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. I’m especially passionate about venous disease – it is the reason VeinInnovations exists, after all! Venous disease is underdiagnosed, which is a shame because it is so easily treatable and the results from […]
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Do you know the risk factors for Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism?
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism can be deadly; know your risks and ways to prevent these killers.
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Were you a dirty child? If so, some believe your parents did you a favor. Would you agree?
Check your family cleanliness recollections vs. your own immunity challenges to see if the Hygiene Hypothesis holds up re: clean dishes, germs, and healthier immune systems.
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What makes exercise a powerful medicine?
Exercise is medicine. It’s a tonic with long-term benefits. We’re realizing more and more that exercise can improve memory and reduce the risk of a host of diseases.
