This year has been one of great isolation as we have all lived with a global pandemic and quarantine has become a way of life for most of us. The holidays are not the same this year as we are all asked to limit the way we normally gather with our extended family members and …
Last New Year’s Eve, you may have made a resolution to get into shape and to stay healthy. It is now the end of the year and time to make an assessment. Have you? Perhaps, like most people do, you started the year off strong and lost momentum as time went on. Now we are …
As an exhausting 2020 comes to a close, the roll-out of the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine offers a much-needed reprieve and hope for a world ravaged by a deadly pandemic. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is also discussing the Emergency Use Authorization of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as well. While there is much …
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The National Institutes of Health defines cholesterol as, “a waxy, fat-like substance that’s found in all cells of the body. Your body needs cholesterol to make hormones and other substances but having too much of it in your blood is linked to higher risks of heart disease and stroke.” With this definition in mind, we …
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At the 2019 International Stroke Conference in Hawaii, researchers from the University of Kansas School of Medicine presented data they have been analyzing since 2015, of 18,269 stroke patients in the United States. For each patient, they noted: exercise, diet, smoking cessation, body mass index, blood pressure, medication use, and alcohol intake. The researchers concluded …