Disclaimer
Since we will be talking about health a little disclaimer is in order:
I am a scientifically minded person who enjoys learning and sharing with the world lessons about cardiovascular disease, exercise, research, news, and experiences of working with heart patients. My hope is that the information I divulge here will be useful to you. It comes from years of experience, a passion to learn, and a desire to improve health care delivery. Do you agree that when it comes to your health, being informed is the first step towards taking care of yourself? Through the blog I hope to try to help you learn about heart issues, hopefully it is meaningful to you. Please take time to visit the bottom of this blog site, as I have placed many useful links for resources, nutrition, exercise, and support.
This blog is for information purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment for any medical conditions. You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and should always consult your physician before starting a fitness program.
Thank you for following my blog. I love the information provided throughout your blog and will be sharing it with my mother.
I do have a few questions, following my mother’s release from the hospital, if she does not make an effort in managing her heart health (and overall health at that), do you have a recomendation on how to approach her, or “push” her to try harder?
Coach her on her expectations. How does she plan to achieve her goals? What are the barriers she sees. Plan strategies to work around barriers. She will have good days and bad, be the support she needs, the mentor, the coach, and the friend as well as the caregiver. It isn’t easy. Keep in touch on how it is going.
HI. I have nominated you for the Blog of the Year 2012. Please visit my blog for the rules. Renee
http://www.positiveboomer.net
Why thank you! I do think your blog is quite deserving of awards as well. Keep up the good work!
YOU are most welcome. Thank you so much. I love your blog and need to get over there and read more of your posts. Have a wonderful day. Renee
Excellent web site you’ve got here.. It’s difficult to find quality
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Take care!!
I am also nominating you. Here are the rules:
Am experimenting with this to see if readership increases. Rules are below:
The rules for this award are the following (applies to all nominees):
Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award
Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.
Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)
Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.
You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlogoftheYear/.
As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…
Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different! When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!
There are a total of 6 stars to collect. Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs, and even if they have already been given the award by someone else, then you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!
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Let me know if any issues your end.
Cheers and best wishes for the holidays.
Andrew
Thanks for the nomination Andrew. It is through blogs like yours that inspire me to continue posting. I appreciate your reading and correspondence. Keep fighting the fight!
I think I’m going to find it very interesting following your blog.
Thank you for visiting MBT and deciding to follow. I write to be happy and to give happiness which I think is good for the heart too!
I loved your photographs on your blog, it too looks like it will be interesting to follow. I am all for happiness! We all could use more of that. Recipes look delicious as well. Thanks for reading my blog and have a great day.
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Hello from the UK!.
I’m so glad you liked my blog on the two MI’s I’ve experienced so far, I say so far a I firmly believe that in this day and age, it’s only a matter of time for all of us despite our individual lifestyles.
I have ‘liked’ your page on Facebook as I feel we all have a positive message about heart disease, diabetes and any other conditions that can cause, or be caused, by the heart.
Thank you and good luck.
Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate your reading and comments.
Ultimately yes the majority of us will succumb to heart disease, I can’t argue with you there. Hopefully however through education and research we can minimize the potential debilitation and improve quality of life of those living with it, and also see reduction in early heart disease, and treatment/outcome gaps with women and minorities.
Keep up the good fight, stay active and continue to strive for good health.
Having had two heart attacks, I remain active and undaunted. My idea of a happy death is to die in a water-skiing accident with a beautiful girl on each shoulder. lol Thanks for liking my post Say, “Look Meh!”
Play hard is a motto I follow. Glad to have you along for the ride. Sounds like your heart attacks have not slowed you down.
I am somewhat slowed, but not in pain, and fit enough still to do the things that inspire me. Slightly sorrowed that I will never get to scuba dive. The water skiing joke was one told by the president of a company I worked for. In his dreams the accident would happen to him at the age of 92. Never forgot that one!
Thank you for putting together this website. My background is more in the exercise realm as applied to cardiac rehab, so I look forward to other aspects less familiar or less understood as a check on what I might share with patients. Have recommended to the patients in our program to have a look as it is not only very insightful (for my purposes), it is very informative and can foresee many positive responses from those in our program. Cheers from Ontario, Canada!
Thank you so much! That was my intention in putting blog together. Sharing the clinical with patients and professionals. If you have thoughts on other topics to post about CR send them in I would be happy to post, or use you as a guest blogger.
No pepperoni, sausage or bacon is a good basic start.
Limit the cheese and fried foods helps many. Interesting though having worked with so many patients, for some diet has no implication in the heart and for others it seems to be the root of their heart disease. They are usually the ones who come in and say they never eat vegetables, or they only eat corn or potatoes as their vegetable sources. A challenge for many is to even contemplate change or going beyond their comfort level and trying something new. So while the advice above is great, the next step is to try to eat fresh and incorporate vegetables and fiber.
Hi! I know this is kinda off topic but I was
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I’m using the same blog platform as yours and I’m
having difficulty finding one? Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this wonderful information i would like to share this with my mother who is now suffering from minor heart problem.