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Best Veggies for Your Heart

Vegetables paired with fruits and a generally healthy diet can help you lead a heart healthy life. Vegetables are good for the heart because they contain antioxidants which help reduce the free radicals in our bodies that can contribute to heart dise...

Is Coffee Good for Your Heart?

Go ahead: Have that second cup of java. Research has found that coffee offers a long list of potential health benefits, including possibly reducing the risk of diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, cirrhosis of the liver and even Alzh...

A Heart-Healthy Diet

A heart healthy diet is one that watches intake of saturated and trans fats, as well as excess sodium. Learn about incorporating good fats into a heart healthy diet with help from a registered, licensed dietitian in this free video on heart healthy d...

Heart-Healthy Tips for Kids

Prevention of heart disease should begin during childhood. While most cardiovascular diseases do not develop until later in life, it is essential to establish heart-healthy habits as a child. As the number of American children struggling with obesity...

How to Juice for Heart Health

At least four servings of fruit and vegetables a day are recommended for heart health by the American Heart Association, a quota that many Americans do not meet. Juicing is an effective way to up your servings of these healthful foods and help ward o...

Heart Health

Protecting your heart is central to your overall health

Teaching Kids About Heart Health

It is never too early to teach children about how their hearts benefit from a good diet and lots of exercise. By reinforcing an active lifestyle and proper eating habits, you can teach children, by example, how to keep their hearts in good shape. You...

How Quitting Smoking Helps Your Heart

Shedding Pounds

You can meet your weight loss goal if you tackle it the right way -- and still feel good in the process

Small Substitutions to Boost Your Diet

With fad fasts and lemon flushes littering the “diet” market, it can feel impossible to make a big health difference without taking drastic measures. In reality, though, a healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to be extreme. Sometimes all...

10 Ways to Build Your Confidence

Taking on a new year can be daunting. We've promised ourselves that we will lose weight, spend less or exercise more, but we're fighting an uphill battle if we don't first have confidence in ourselves. Take steps to boost your confidence, and you'll...

Why Bother to Eat Healthy?

The food pyramid is not only a model of nutrition, but it's also a defense guideline against illnesses and disease. Having a well-balanced diet and getting plenty of sleep can help with more than just weight management.

How Diet Affects Heart Health

Counting Calories for Weight Loss

If you want to lose weight quickly you need to both diet and exercise. It is important to eat the right amount of calories per day to optimize your weight loss. Once you start eating your ideal caloric intake, you will start to see some great weigh...

How to Maintain Healthy Skin

Suffering from an uneven skin tone can be embarrassing, but there are many ways to improve your skin's health and appearance.

Skin Care Remedies with Flax Oil

Homemade skincare remedies allow you to take control of the ingredients you use and put on your skin. Whether you have dry skin conditions--like psoriasis and eczema--or acne and oily skin conditions, the way you formulate your skincare remedies make...

About Eczema

Eczema is an allergy of the skin that causes dryness, which will result in itching, bumps and scaling. Find out how to get rid of the symptoms of eczema by breaking the cycle of scratching with help from a practicing pediatrician in this free video o...

Prevent Mosquito Bite Infections

Mosquito bites are a common nuisance and they itch; but if you scratch them and break the skin...

Why Do Mosquito Bites Swell and Itch?

How To Stop a Bite From Itching

Family Meal Planning Basics

View meal planning as a way to employ some creative problem-solving and a chance to try out some tasty foods.

How to Take Out Contact Lenses

There are two different ways you can remove your lens without scraping your eyes. Learn more about both with the useful tips provided by a certified ophthalmic assistant in this free video on how to take out contact lenses without scraping your eyes.

How to Get Sand Out of Your Eye

Sand in the eye can be a painful experience that may lead to scratches on the eye (corneal abrasions) or an eye infection. A windy day or a sand-throwing incident at the beach can lead to sand in the eyes, and properly administering first aid is esse...