Want a Healthy Heart? Prioritize a Healthy Brain

Want a Healthy Heart? Prioritize a Healthy Brain

According to the American Heart Association, psychological health can positively or negatively impact a person’s health and risk factors for heart disease and stroke.  Did you know? Those in rural communities live almost three years fewer than urban dwellers and...
Must Love Dogs

Must Love Dogs

What’s more healthful than a multivitamin and as beneficial as exercise? Fido. Or Cooper. Or Bella. Or any other fur baby. Medical research shows that owning a dog is one of the best prescriptions for reducing your health risk. And dog-owning doctors agree....
Stumble and fall. Get back up.

Stumble and fall. Get back up.

February 7, 2014, is National Wear Red Day, created to raise awareness of heart disease as the No. 1 killer of women. Many women don’t know their risks for or facts on heart disease, or that stroke is a cardiovascular condition. Madelyn Mazzone-Wong, a...