Cardiac Rehabilitation
How Your Heart Works
Your heart is an amazing organ. It beats about 100,000 times every day, to move blood around your body. As your heart beats, blood c...
Smart Grocery Shopping
It’s important to know how to shop for your groceries in a smart and heart-healthy way. The following tips are ways for you to shop...
Label Reading
An important part of smart grocery shopping is reading food labels, also known as the “Nutrition Facts.” Because the food you eat is...
Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Some of the biggest risk factors that can lead to heart disease you can control, like what you eat and how much physical activity yo...
Smoking Risk Factors
If you smoke, you probably know it damages your body in a lot of ways. For one thing, smoking lowers the amount of oxygen that goes...
Eat Less Sodium
Eating less sodium in your diet can really help your heart and your health. Eating too much sodium, or salt, can cause high blood pr...
Eat More Fiber
When making heart-healthy food choices, it’s important to eat more fiber. It helps protect your heart, lower your cholesterol, and i...
Walking Plan
When you get home after your surgery, it’s important to have a combination of rest and light physical activity to help your body, an...
Eat Healthy Fats
We all know that foods like nuts, fish, and olive oil are good for you and that processed foods like cookies, chips, and crackers ar...
What Is Cardiac Rehabilitation?
The goal of cardiac rehabilitation, or rehab, is to help you get heart healthy. If you’ve had a heart event, your doctor may recomme...