Heart Health

You’ve heard it before and we’ve said it before: Sitting is the new smoking. Long stretches spent sitting in a chair can cause dire consequences for your physical health and mental well-being. The evidence has been building for years. For example, even just an hour’s worth of sitting means your…

So what do your numbers add up to? Your blood pressure numbers, that is. High blood pressure often has no symptoms yet is the cause of substantial ill health and premature death (estimates are over 650,000 US deaths per year are related to high blood pressure). So it’s critical that…

Even though there’s no shortage of advice on how to eat in order to promote healthier aging, many of us still struggle in our day-to-day lives to figure out what to eat. For most, the options are overwhelming (In fact, Dr. Peter Attia has called most of us “overnourished”) and…

While we’ve recognized that 10,000 steps a day are not necessary for achieving real health benefits from walking, many of us still strive for as many steps as we can on any given day. But that’s not always possible, nor is it always necessary. In fact, a brand new study…

If you’re a summer fruit lover, right now is peak delight time for you. But, according to the CDC, only 12.3 % of US adults meet their recommended daily fruit intake. What is the recommended fruit intake for an adult in the US? For women 60 and over, 1.5 –…

According to the CDC, almost half of us have hypertension (high blood pressure), which means an awful lot of us are taking medications to lower our blood pressure (and only ¼ of us have our high blood pressure under control). You probably don’t need to be told that having high…