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.

Diets for Kids? Vogue Article Backlash

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Should kids be on a diet? This week’s Everyday Health video with fitness expert Jillian Michaels really got me thinking.  She discusses Vogue magazine’s April edition article about a mom who put her 7-year-old daughter on a restrictive diet and derided her about what she ate and how she looked.  Jillian sought the opinion of [...]

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Stress: A Sticky Situation

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Stress Makes Sticky Platelets Most of us know stress causes your body to react in a “Fright or Flight” manner.  Your heart rate increases, cortisol is produced, and – you might be surprise to learn – your blood gets more sticky. One of the body’s more ingenious reactions to a threatening situation is to make [...]

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Find A Moment of “Ahhh”: Stress Management Tip

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Take time to relax and let your body recover! When was the last time you allowed yourself to relax to the point you said, “Ahhhh…”? Hectic schedules, demands of work and home, and the never-ending barrage of information creates stress.  One of the best ways to reduce stress, and decrease the amount of cortisol in [...]

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How Is Your Wellness Karma?

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Wellness is like Karma – you get what you give! Yesterday my girls asked me to explain Karma.  I explained it was a concept in which good actions caused good results and bad actions caused bad results.  Grace stated that this seemed like our parenting style (yes, very true) and Callie said, “It’s kind of [...]

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Happiness Makes The Heart Grow Stronger

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Being happy makes your heart healthier!   Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that positive psychological well-being appears to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events. Which means an optimistic outlook could keep your heart healthy! “The absence of the negative is not the same thing as the presence [...]

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Sow the Seeds of Good Health

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Spring Is Here! Are you cultivating your own health? The weather is warmer, flowers are blooming, and the promise of a vibrant summer is in the air.  What are you doing to prepare for your own vibrant, and healthy, summer? Spring is a great time to reinvigorate your healthy habits.  With the days getting longer, [...]

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Every Beat of Your Heart

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Resting Heart Rate and Your Health When was the last time you checked your resting heart rate? Try it: When you wake up tomorrow morning, before you swing your feet out of bed, take your pulse for 10 seconds.  Multiply your 10 second count by 6 and you have your Resting Heart Rate.  Here are [...]

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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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