Did you know that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined? While it is important to spread awareness, it is also important to help educate our friends, families and loved ones. Here are some tips for living heart healthy:
- Eat a diet rich in fruits and veggies, whole-grain and high-fiber foods
- Try to limit your sodium intake to 1500 mg/day
- Avoid trans-fatty acids
- Eat very little saturated fat (such as fat from meat, cheese and butter)
- Eat less than 150 mg of cholesterol per day
- Drink no more than one alcoholic beverage a day
- Stop smoking cigarettes. It is important for many things, including heart health
- Get 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise a week, such as brisk walking
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Also referred to as sterilization, permanent birth control procedures in women close off the fallopian tubes. These procedures ensure that the egg cannot move down the fallopian tubes into the uterus and that sperm cannot reach the egg. Sterilization procedures do not affect a woman’s menstrual cycle or sexual function. In addition, the procedures do not protect women from sexually transmitted diseases.
Learn more about the permanent birth control options that are available, including one that can be performed in our offices at this link.
]]>While a healthy diet is always the best way to get the vitamins and minerals you need, prenatal vitamins are recommended if you are planning pregnancy or if you are currently pregnant. Your health care provider might also recommend that you continue taking prenatal vitamins after your baby has been born, especially if you are breastfeeding. Prenatal vitamins can help fill in any gaps in vitamins and minerals, but they are not meant to substitute the need for you to eat a healthy diet.
Learn more about the important components of prenatal vitamins, when to start taking them as well as some of the side effects that may occur by clicking here.
]]>While there is no guarantee that preterm labor can be prevented, there are some changes you can make to have a healthy pregnancy and reduce your risk of having a premature baby:
Over the next several weeks, it is likely that many of us will be traveling from one holiday get-together to another as we celebrate the season with friends and family members. While the holidays can be a fun and festive time, many of our celebrations will be focused on food, making it easier for all of us to over-indulge and potentially gain weight. Eating healthy is not only beneficial to our waistlines, but also, it is an important component of mental health and can help keep our stress levels at bay.
Check out these healthy holiday eating tips that we can all remember as we head into the holiday season.
Grief is the emotion we feel when we experience a loss. All deaths may be traumatic in some way, but a sudden death is always traumatic. Not only do we suffer with sadness, but our minds are reluctantly trying to integrate a new reality – one that is different from the way reality should be.
We also grieve when our loved one’s death was expected and we were able to say goodbye. We miss the person and their presence in our life, especially the times spent together such as holidays or birthdays.
The holiday season, in particular, can trigger the emotions of grief. Learn more about grief and ways to cope here: http://www.
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