Bellin Health Heart Blog

Category: Obesity

Are you ready to Walk?

Have you been walking this summer? Are you getting out and being active? Or are you still sitting on the couch? Well, let me tell you a few of the benefits to keeping your body moving.

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Easy switches and smart choices

For a healthier diet, here are some examples of easy switches and smart food choices.
Meat, Fish and Poultry
Limit:

  • fatty meats
  • sausage
  • bacon
  • organ meats
  • tuna packed in oil
  • bologna
  • hot dogs
  • salami
  • lunch meats

Smart substitutes: lean cuts of beef

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Sleep: your heart health depends on it

Sleep occupies a third of our lives according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled, Sleep-A New Cardiovascular Frontier.
 
Can you believe that? Do you think that is too much time for sleep? Well, our bodies need sleep to rejuvinate so we can live our lives to the fullest when we are awake. So when we have disturbed sleep or sleep apnea, this can have ill effects on the cardiovascular system.

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Cardiobesity

Cardiobesity: a new epidemic in the United States?
 
Obesity is the central problem contributing to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, altered lipoproteins, prediabetes, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

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