Category Archives: Excercise

Exercising with heart disease


Originally posted on Rehabilitate Your Heart:
Start slow and add a little more over time. Make it feel  as if when finished feel like you could have done more easily. Begin exercising at this intensity for several sessions before making…

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Diet or Drugs to Prevent Heart Disease


A Brilliant Post, IMHO. Thank you Dr Axel F. Sigurdsson MD, PhD, FACC. This ‘Doc’s Opinion’ article is linked here. Also read its connected comments for further insights. The risk of heart disease has been associated with countless different things. Smoking, … Continue reading

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Sitting All Day Is Killing You – It’s Time to Stand Up For Health


By Elizabeth Renter | Natural Society We know our diet and activity levels have a significant impact on our health and even our lifespan. But as many of us spend more time sitting than we do sleeping or moving around, … Continue reading

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Health – Cardiovascular Disease- Statins, Friend or Foe? (Corrected 13 Jan 2013)


So much has been published about the use of statins for reducing cardiovascular mortality. So much evidence against statins because of known side-effects but perhaps statistically unknown incidences of these side-effects. Certainly there seems to be sufficient evidence to suggest … Continue reading

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Reducing the risk for a second heart attack


Originally posted on Rehabilitate Your Heart:
Many patients come through their heart procedures and feel they are cured. Unfortunately for most, heart disease is a chronic progressive disorder of the arteries in which deposits of cholesterol, calcium, and abnormal cells…

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Cool facts about blood vessels


Originally posted on Rehabilitate Your Heart:
Are you raising a family? If so you want them to grow strong and healthy. When you consider their growth, think of their blood vessels.   I know that seems kind of out of…

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Exercise Prescription


Originally posted on Rehabilitate Your Heart:
If the benefits of exercise could be put into a pill would you take it? If so why would you take it? Most likely because you know that pill is extremely helpful.  It would make your…

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Excercising – Importance of Warm-up and Cool-down


Originally posted on Rehabilitate Your Heart:
One of the most crucial parts of an exercise program for any heart patient is warm up Working in cardiac rehabilitation this was often one of the biggest challenges I would encounter on a…

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How Stress Influences Disease: Study Reveals Inflammation as the Culprit


The rewards of networking! I have asked various medical advisors, familiar with my cardiac event details, about stress as a contributor to heart disease. Other than blood pressure increase, not much was informative. I do not have BP issues and … Continue reading

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Proven Health Risks from Sedentary lifestyle.


If you think about it, you may find examples of synchronicity occurring in your life. This definitely happens to me. An event that might otherwise be considered a coincidence can strangely be a fortunate help or guide to your well-being … Continue reading

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