Heart disease remains the number one killer of Americans. Along with poor diet, high cholesterol, diabetes and family history, high blood pressure – also called hypertension – is one of the main risk factors. Though high blood pressure itself can have many of the same contributors as heart disease, one of the most effective […]
While coffee is the pick-me-up drink of choice in the US, Canada and most of Europe, tea is still preferred virtually everywhere else, making it the hands-down most widely consumed beverage – after water – in the world. So, if you’re not a big tea drinker, but you’d like to appreciate it more, where […]
A couple of blog posts ago, we gave you the basics on Pilates, a mind and body exercise discipline that’s been practiced around the world for about a century. But if you want the original, the great granddaddy of mind and body disciplines, which has been around for thousands of years, that would be yoga. […]
Even though mortality rates have decreased by 50% since the 1970s, cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is a build-up of fatty deposits inside the arteries that can lead to a heart attack or stroke, is still the number one killer in the Western world. While it’s now well established that eating a healthy diet, losing […]
