Okay, so quinoa may not be the first thing to come to mind for a romantic Valentine's dinner, but what better day to
think about heart health?
Not exact matches
That
thought, on display during Wednesday's presidential debates, is also at the
heart of a battle raging between Democrats and Republicans, whose views
about governement involvment in everything from
health care and education to business are diametrically opposed.
Western diets typically have a ratio of
about 10 - to - 1 to 15 - to - 1, while a ratio of 2.3 - to - 1 is
thought to maximize
heart health.
I want to, for just a moment, delve into both the woo - woo and the practical, and share something with you that has been on my
heart as I dig into these type of
health issues that many of us hard - charging, high achievers need to
think about.
Plus as Leandra said, coconut oil is
about 90 % saturated fat, which although recently has been shown to not be as bad as originally
thought, is still not as good for your
heart health as unsaturated fats (this article explains it well http://www.
health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-truth-
about-fats-bad-and-good).
I talk very seriously and with much
thought about health and have totally reversed countless cases of very severe diabetes, being likely the first person to have done so nearly 2 decades ago, and also have reversed many cases of severe coronary disease,
heart failure, cancer, and other chronic diseases of aging.
Dr. Walter Willett, the chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public
Health, also
thought this was a reasonably done study, but he added it is difficult to make conclusions
about the risk of
heart disease from a study so small and short.
The
heart health benefits of eating fish outweigh the risks — the trick is avoiding those with the most plentyoffish is hateful and sexist against MEN I get asked by women what I
think about Plenty of Fish.
One of the exercises that we did in the
heart rate monitor project actually, in turn, inspired me to start a new project in my current research work to
think about using wearable devices to potentially monitor
heart failure patients» cardiac
health.»
I hope these stories will make people
think about the potential cost of their pet's physical and behavioral
health, and make some plans for how to meet such costs, so they never have to have their
hearts broken for lack of funds.
The competition is part of the ongoing NOAH «I
heart my pet» campaign 2014 — designed to celebrate the love that UK pet owners feel for their animals and through the www.pethealthinfo.org.uk website, to encourage them to
think about the
health of their pets and to seek independent, expert animal healthcare advice.
What do you
think about this connection between emotional
health and
heart health?