Heart Health Tips and Articles from Embrace Your Heart

If you knew making one small change could make a big difference in your health, would you do it?

Embrace Your Heart provides down-to-earth tips to improve heart health so you can live longer, feel better, and stress less.

Heart attack survivor and nationally know wellness speaker and author, Eliz Greene examines the latest wellness information and provides implementable strategies you can use today.

Busy Woman’s Guide at New London Women’s Wellness Day

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Over 200 women enjoyed an event to promote heart health at the New London Women’s Wellness Day.  Heart attack survivor and women’s wellness speaker, Eliz Greene presented her keynote the Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart. Were you there?  Share a comment below and let us know what you took away from the program [...]

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Real Valentine: Learn CPR!

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If you love someone, learn CPR This video points out the person who needs CPR could be your mom, dad, kid, neighbor, friend or coworker – people you love and value.  Take two minutes to watch our Hands-Only CPR video below – and the one on defibrillators.  Send a real Valentine – Learn CPR! Wishing [...]

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Embrace Your Heart Named to Best Women’s Health Blogs

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Top Resources for Women’s Health Woo Hoo! The Embrace Your Heart Blog was named one of the top resources for women’s health by Careers in Health!  We are honored to be alongside great wellness websites such as Women’s Health Bistro, EmpowHer, and OurBodies Ourselves. Check out the full list! Eliz Greene works busy people to [...]

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12 Ways to Embrace Your Heart

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Happy Heart Month! Each February we focus on Women’s Heart Health – to build awareness, improve treatment, and end research disparities. Over the past ten years, we’ve done a pretty good job!  Most women recognize heart disease as the number one killer of women of all ages. Are you putting your heart as your #1 [...]

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Use Your Head (and your heart) Shoveling Snow!

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As the first real snow of the season comes our way, we wanted to take the chance to remind you to Use Your Head (and protect your heart) when Shoveling Snow! Good news: Those flakes falling from the sky provide an excellent opportunity for cardiovascular exercise!  Yes, shoveling – or walking behind a snow blower [...]

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What’s for Lunch?

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Heart Healthy Lunch Ideas for Your Event! Recently a client asked for some recommendations for what to serve at a luncheon event.  As I compiled a list, I thought perhaps other event professionals might be interested in some suggestions as well!  (They are great for lunch or dinner at home too) Here you go: Salmon [...]

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Are You Sitting Too Much?

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Sitting too much isn’t the same as moving too little! Surprising results from recent studies indicate even if you head to he gym every morning, sitting at your desk all day can have a negative impact on your health! Among people who exercise regularly, those who sit most of the day have larger waists and [...]

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We Have Other Plans

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Worried about holiday social commitments taking over your time? Make other plans. No kidding. Right now. Open your calendar and mark every available evening and weekend as committed to your holiday priorities.  That way when you receive an invitation you can quite honestly say, “We have other plans.” Those other plans may be a glass [...]

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The Skinny On Obesity

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Tonight I’m honored to help Young Farmers and Ranchers prepare for the American Farm Bureau Federation‘s Discussion Meet.  Their discussion question is: What role, if any, should agriculture play in addressing health and obesity issues? Your comments are welcome below – here is the information I provided: According to the Gallup and Healthways poll released [...]

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Can You Guess What This Is?

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Did you guess soft serve ice cream? You’d be wrong… It’s chicken… well sort of… It’s actually mechanically separated chicken made though a process called AMR – Advanced Meat Recovery and is lurking in your hot dog, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, jerky etc… Using even more than the squeek, to get every ounce of [...]

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An Apple A Day Keeps the Stroke Away!

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Your grandma was right! Eating that apple is good for you! A Dutch study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association shows people who eat white fleshed fruits and veggies can cut their risk of stroke in half! Great news! So load up on apples, pears, bananas chicory, cucumber, and cauliflower – or [...]

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Go Ahead. Drink That Coffee!

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Your morning cup of coffee may do more than perk you up! Worried coffee might damage your health? It turns out a cup or two per day can have some health benefits including reducing your risk of stroke and cavities! EveryDayHealth.com published an article outlining 9 ways coffee can improve your health including reducing your [...]

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“Super-spaghetti” on it’s way!

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Now you can have your spaghetti, and eat it too! Barley, the grain we love in beer, packs fiber and antioxidants into your favorite pasta according to a report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.  Barley is finding it’s way into bakery items and other foods in an effort to create “functional foods” [...]

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Can Eyelids Predict Heart Attacks?

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Those yellow spots on your eyelids might mean a higher risk of heart disease! Many people visit a dermatologist to remove raised yellow spots from around their eyes, but a new study indicates they should be visiting a cardiologist too! These patches are filled with cholesterol and are called xanthelasmata.  Having deposits of cholesterol near [...]

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Changing Diapers May Lower Risk of Prostate Cancer!

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Good news for the great dads out there! Fatherhood decreases testosterone levels & decreases risk of prostate cancer. In a study released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, testosterone levels dropped in men caring for children.  In fact, men more actively involved in child care (changing diapers, feeding, [...]

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