_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition Heart Health Herbs, Spices and Heart Disease By Jane Farrell article Spices and herbs may do more than add a flavorful touch to food ΓÇô researchers say itΓÇÖs possible that they … Read More→
_ National Family Health History Day By Jane Farrell article Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at ThirdAge to you and yours! Each year since 2004, the Surgeon General … Read More→
_ Heart Health Stroke Life after Heart Attack and Stroke By Jane Farrell article Increasing numbers of people are surviving heart attacks and stroke, but they may suffer a sharper, decline in physical abilities … Read More→
_ Heart Health A Genetic Link Between Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease By Jane Farrell article Researchers have discovered possible genetic links between type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The two conditions have long been known … Read More→
HRT and Your Heart: Friends At Last By blog Menopause is not for weaklings. Dealing with symptoms is at the top of the list, especially with hormones sending you […]
Pets Dogs and Our Health: The Benefits of our Furry Friends By Jane Farrell article For thousands of years, dogs have been domesticated and bred to have qualities humans deemed suitableΓÇôa literal transformation from wild … Read More→
_ Dating Make Your Dating Life Healthy Again! By Jane Farrell article YouΓÇÖve made the big decision to start dating again. YouΓÇÖve heard about all the health benefits of good relationships: reducing … Read More→
_ Weight Loss How Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners Affect Your Health By Jane Farrell article We know that sugar isnΓÇÖt an optimal ingredient in our food. But how undesirable is it, and are artificial sweeteners … Read More→
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition ΓÇ£SpiceΓÇ¥ Up Your Health By Jane Farrell article Did you know that one of the easiest things you can do to improve your health is to use a … Read More→
_ 10 ΓÇ£HealthyΓÇ¥ Food Practices That Could Make You Sick By Jane Farrell article Could your commitment to healthy living be making you sick? Some everyday food practices that most of us do with … Read More→
_ New Superfoods to Tackle Heart Disease & Diabetes By article A new generation of superfoods that tackle heart disease and diabetes could be developed following research into a protein that … Read More→
_ Vision Health The Healthy-Vision Plan By Jane Farrell article Although we donΓÇÖt worry as much about eye health as we do about, say, heart disease, itΓÇÖs still crucial to … Read More→
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition ΓÇ£SpiceΓÇ¥ Up Your Health By Sondra Forsyth article By Diane Blum Did you know that one of the easiest things you can do to improve your health is to use a handful of spices each day? Simply adding the right spices increases nutrients in your diet, allows you to use less salt and sugar for taste, and also has important health side benefits. Here are a few of the healthiest: 1) Cinnamon
_ Exercise Ready, Set - Change Your Health Habits! By Jane Farrell article We all know how crucial it is to make lifestyle changes to improve our health, but knowing that and actually changing a habit are two very different things. Here, the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, offers an easy-to-follow plan that will help you understand how best to make the move to healthier habits.
_ Stroke ThirdAge Health Close-Up: ΓÇ£I Felt Like I Was Buried AliveΓÇ¥ By Sondra Forsyth article As told to Sherry Amatenstein, LCSW On October 17, 2010 shortly after her 49th birthday Allison OΓÇÖReilly didnΓÇÖt feel like herself. The McLean, Virginia author of Out of Darkness explains, ΓÇ£My left arm hurt all day. I took Advil. That night the room started spinning, my ears were ringing, and I felt really sick.ΓÇ¥
_ Heart Health Crucial Heart-Disease Devices Benefit People of Color By Jane Farrell article Racial and ethnic minorities who get implantable devices to treat heart failure derive the same survival benefit as white patients, new research shows. But non-white patients are getting the devices at a much lower rate. The study, one of the largest to compare the survival benefits of the devices by race and ethnicity, looked at 15,000 patients from 167 medical practices across the U.S. The findings are published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
_ Cholesterol Drug Good for Diabetic WomenΓÇÖs Hearts By Sondra Forsyth article The cholesterol-lowering drug fenofibrate cuts cardiovascular disease risks by 30 per cent in women with type-2 diabetes, according to a study done at th University of Sydney in Australia and published in August 2014 in Diabetologia. A release from the university quotes study chairman Professor Tony Keech as saying, "The finding is good news for women. The study shows that fenofibrate reduced the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, or having a stroke or other adverse cardiovascular event by 30 per cent in women and 13 per cent in men."
_ Heart Health Good Neighbors May Curb Heart Attack Risk By Sondra Forsyth article Although some studies suggest that the factors such as area violence and noise can negatively affect cardiovascular health, few studies have looked at the potential health enhancing effects of positive local neighborhood characteristics. This prompted the authors of an article published in 2014 in BMJ to track the cardiovascular health of over 5000 US adults with no known heart problems over a period of four years, starting in 2006. Their average age was 70, and almost two thirds were women and married (62%).