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    • About Me
    • Welcome to Rehabilitate Your Heart
  • After heart attack caring for your heart
    • Caring for your heart today
    • Managing the Open Heart Surgery Scar
    • Recovery from Open Heart Surgery: Common Complications
    • Heart Disease
    • Is my heart disease cured?
    • Blood Pressure Measurement – things you might not know
    • Cardiac Surgery Patients: Think Posture!
    • Beta Blockers
    • Beta Blocker
    • Vitamin K and Coumadin
    • Anemia can be common with heart disease
    • Heart medications that interact with grapefruit
    • September is Peripheral Artery Disease awareness month: What Heart Patients Need to Know
    • Ignoring Heart Disease Won’t Lower Your Risk
    • Infection Prevention
    • Stretching your upper body following open heart surgery
  • Smoking and Heart Disease
    • Smoking cessation in old age: Less heart attacks and strokes within five years
    • Smoking effects results of coronary artery bypass surgery
    • The average smoker makes 7 attempts at quitting before they succeed
    • Breaking up for your health
  • Alcohol is part of Heart Disease
    • Alcohol Facts
    • Cravings
  • Depression and Heart Health
    • Depression and Heart Conditions
    • Grief and heart health
    • Grief triggered from news
    • Anger and Heart Disease
  • Coping with Heart Disease
    • Stress – Tools to help you Cope
    • Meditation Lessons
    • The power of breath
    • Make time to Meditate
    • Getting through the hard days
    • Laugh
    • How Laughter Impacts Your Heart Health
  • The Diabetes and Heart Relationship
    • Heart of Diabetes
    • Exercise precautions diabetic heart patients
    • Diabetes blood sugar and A1c elevation tied to heart disease
    • Diabetics Weight Loss and Heart Health
    • Diabetes Education
  • Exercise
    • Exercise Make it a habit
    • Warm Up and Cooldown: Why so important for heart patients?
    • Exercise Prescription
    • Heart Rates: Why are they important to know?
    • Exercise is Medicine for your Diabetes
    • Exercise the key to a happier healthier you
    • 40 facts about Fitness
    • Favorite stretches for open heart surgery patients
    • Health benefits of walking
    • Get more out of your Walk
    • Mental Benefits from Exercise
    • Exercise lacking as medicine for secondary prevention
    • Fitness as we age
    • Mentoring families in physical activity
    • The Ultimate Way to Fitness
  • Maintaining Muscle
    • Your Strength Is Your Independence As You Age
    • Building the chest and back muscles after open heart surgery
    • Yoga for Heart Patients
    • Yoga an inspiring video and story
    • Benefits of training both the arms and legs
  • What Activities are Safe after Heart Problem?
    • Returning to Exercise Following Illness
    • The Flu and Heart Disease
    • Top 10 exercise myths
  • Heart Patients and High Heat and Humidity
    • Heat Exhaustion and Heart Disease
    • Hot tub and Sauna Safety for Heart Conditions
  • Winter effects on your heart
    • Winter Exercise for Heart Patients
    • Snowstorms and Heart Disease
  • Healing the Broken Heart
    • My Little Heart
    • Reflections From a 25 years old heart bypass patient
    • Me and My Heart: Lessons Learned as a Cardiac Patient
    • Life
  • Heart Patients must Prepare for Emergencies
  • Peripheral Artery Disease
  • Sodium and fluid retention
    • Sodium intake affects on heart vessels
    • Sodium: What gives Caregivers and Cardiac Rehab Staff Nightmares
    • How much sodium should my family have?
  • Prevention measures to avoid blood clots
  • Protect your kidneys
  • Memory Problems with Heart Disease: Pump head and Vascular Dementia
  • Anemia can be common with heart disease
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs: What do they offer?
    • Cardiac Rehabilitation – Did you attend?
    • Making Trails for Exercise
    • Making a difference
    • A decade of inspiring women to protect their hearts
    • Cardiac Rehabilitation Week
    • Cardiac Rehabilitation Week Continue…Patient Gratitude
    • Cardiac-rehab reports often don’t reach the primary-care doc
    • Cardiac Rehabilitation programs continue to under serve Women and Minorities
  • Healthy eating tips for heart patients
    • Sodium and fluid retention
    • Mediterranean Diet: Follow the Pyramid
    • Fat and Calories
    • Nutrition recommendation for heart patients
    • Carbohydrates and Heart Disease
    • Does your plate look like this?
    • Vegetables
      • Do you eat vegetable and legumes?
      • Eat More Colors
      • Eat your Veggies!!!
    • Are you dehydrated?
      • Drink Water!
  • Overcoming weight loss challenges
    • Calories
    • Burning Calories
    • Sedentary life causes weight gain: How to avoid it in your family
  • Family Health
    • Family history of heart issues, not just heart attacks
    • What are my chances of getting Heart Disease?
    • Family Health
    • How much sodium should my family have?
    • Fast Food Challenges
    • How Healthy is Your Holiday Meal?
    • Creative Sweet Treats: Healthy Snack Ideas
    • America’s Nutrition Evolution
    • How to get your family to eat healthy
  • Challenges of living with a pacemaker or ICD
    • Can you Understand your ICD Safety Alerts or Recalls?
    • ICD’s: Resources, Decision Making, and What to Know
  • Signs and Symptoms of Trouble
    • High Blood Pressure
    • Reducing the risk for a second heart attack
    • Signs of a Heart Attack
    • Do You Know the Symptoms of a Heart Attack?
    • Signs and Symptoms of Trouble
    • Denial and its deadly role in surviving a heart attack « Heart Sisters
    • Chest Pain after having Stent
    • Cold Weather Posture Causing Angina Like Symptoms?
    • Exercise Induced Angina
    • 12 Possible Heart Symptoms Never to Ignore
    • Stroke Signs and Symptoms
    • In any case call 911
    • Do you know how to perform CPR?
    • Surviving Sudden Cardiac Arrest
    • Nitroglycerine for Heart Symptoms
  • Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure
  • Know your Nitro: It could save your life!
    • Nitroglycerine – what you should know
  • How your heart works
    • A heart disease infographic
    • Heart disease medical terms to know
    • Coronary Heart Disease
    • What’s Your Ejection Fraction (EF)?
    • Pre Load and After Load
  • Common Heart Rhythm Issues
    • Heart Rhythm Monitors
    • The Heart: An Incredible Electric Machine
    • What people with heart conditions need to know about Atrial Fibrillation
    • Palpitations May Signal Future Heart Rhythm Problem
  • End of Life Choices
    • 4-16-13 National Healthcare Decisions Day
  • Choices in the care of your heart
    • Asking about price is an essential part of a patient’s responsibility
  • Mobile Apps to Track Health
    • New medical device, ECG on IPhone

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