23 Ways To Take Care of Your Heart (More Than One Month a Year) We tend to focus our attention on our hearts at the beginning of every year. We have new resolutions and goals in January, and then February is Heart Month, but what we forget is that our heart is with us every…
Heart Healthy Recipe – Skinny French Toast Have you faced the ‘French Toast Dilemma?’ The original french toast recipe contains one pound of cream cheese, a quart of half-and-half, and eight eggs. Sure, it is delicious, but consuming 27 grams of fat in one sitting is no way to start the day. Classic 502…
Heart Health Recipe – Healthy Potato Salad Putting the Salad Back into potato salad (a healthy potato salad recipe). The classic mayo-based version sneaks in more than 300 calories and 23g fat—a not-so-skinny version. So, when it comes to taking care of your heart health, why not adapt your mayo version to be something better?…
Heart Healthy Recipe – Healthy Brownies Finding a recipe with a calorie count for brownies seems to be an impossible task (they don’t want you to know what you’re eating it seems!). With an entire stick of butter, 2 cups of sugar, and everything else it is easy to see that it would not be…
What is Heart Month? – How to Get Involved! Today, heart disease and stroke take one life every 7 minutes. Ninety percent of Canadians have at least one risk factor for stroke, or heart disease. The Heart and Stroke Foundation works to raise awareness during Heart Month which is the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s key…
Heart Health Risks of Living the High-Rise Building Life Yikes! The National Post just put out a new story on the heart risks of living the high-rise life. Living above the third-floor drastically reduces your chances of surviving cardiac arrest, study suggests. That is certainly something to consider and also something that many people probably…
Heatstroke and Cardiac Arrest – What You Need to Know! Heatstroke and Cardiac Arrest. The two may not be directly related, but they do pop up together in a Google search. The reason is because the two can be connected! Here is what you need to know about heatstroke and cardiac arrest, and what is…
Heart Healthy Recipe – Mother’s Day Vegan Brownie Recipe Happy Mothers Day! We are wishing you the heart-filling, tummy-filling, love-full day that you deserve. We believe the best thing you can give is quality time. With so much going on day-to-day the best way to say “I love you and appreciate all you have…
10 Easy, Every-Day Exercises (to Improve Your Heart Health!) “I don’t have time”, “The gym is too expensive”, “I’m too tired”, “It doesn’t work”, “I can’t stay motivated”, “I have to take care of the family”, “It hurts!” These are some of the top reasons people don’t exercise… but these excuses have no weight…
How to Prevent Death by Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) For anyone that is familiar with Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) you know that it can happen to anyone at any time. However, there are people that have a higher risk than others and there are ways to prevent death resulting from SCA. Three factors to…