cholesterol, General Health, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Menopause, perimenopause, Stroke
I want to share this interview I did with Puja Mehta, a cardiologist at the Barbara Streisand Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Here she discusses heart attacks in women and what you need to know. Men and women have such different symptoms that many women don’t...
Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Stroke
Would you know what to do in a medical emergency? What about some type of disaster? If you’re like half of Americans recently surveyed by Adelphi University Center for Health Innovation and reported by Mary Elizabeth Dallas, you don’t have a first-aid kit...
Diabetes, Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, perimenopause, Weight Control
Sodas were again in the news and this time for increasing the risk of heart attack and diabetes. You can see my blog post about this on FeedingAmerica.org. As you’ll see, cutting back on sodas or cutting them out altogether might be the most important health...
General Health, High Blood Pressure, Memory, Menopause, Omega-3, Weight Control
If you really want a healthy brain in menopause and beyond, a recent study in the Neurology shows that you must eat healthy. It’s not just a single vitamin that causes brain power to dip to cognitive decline. Both good and bad brain health is caused in part by...
Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Menopause, perimenopause, Stroke
New findings from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) found that citrus fruits, oranges and grapefruits in particular, lower stroke risk by 20% for women in perimenopause and menopause. It seems the reason is flavanones, a subclass of flavonoids. These findings were...
Diabetes, General Health, Health Song, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Weight Control
I heard an excellent discussion today on WBUR/NPR regarding sugar and the affect it is having on our health. We are eating 30 times more sugar than our ancestors 100 years ago and 1/3 of our country is obese while another 1/3 is overweight. Is sugar the cause of...