The Mediterranean Diet has been shown to be extremely beneficial in preventing heart disease. The Nurses Health Study showed that following a Mediterranean Diet could dramatically reduce a woman’s chances of having heart disease.

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America is overweight. It’s easy enough to see. But did you a know a Big Belly puts you at risk of dying.

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Modern life is filled with stress. Lifting our heart can be a way to reduce damaging stress. Lifting means opening and expanding. You can indeed lift your heart with these simple steps.

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An old saying used to be, “No one ever died of a broken heart.”   Now medical science has proven this to be untrue.  You can indeed suffer a serious heart problem because of a broken heart.  In fact, a broken heart can be lethal!
In the last 10 years medical research has discovered a new illness [...]

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Laughter can be good for your heart health. Medical studies show it can even prevent a heart attack. If you haven’t laughed in a while consider checking out Chris Rock’s movie, “Death at a Funeral.”

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Sugar is bad for your heart health.
Ah, this should come as no surprise.  We’ve all been told this.  But a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 2010;303:1490-1497.)  confirms what we all knew deep down.  Sugar isn’t good for you.
A lot of sugar is very bad for you.  If you eat [...]

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Just back from vacationing in Florida.  We left Michigan’s cold weather for a few days in the sunny confines of Orlando.  Vacations are like a medicine.  They can be a real medicine for the heart.
We often think that medicine is a pill that we take, but medicine- something that can improve the body’s health can [...]

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Our hearts need nourishment. They need to receive the proper ingredients for becoming well. We need to follow the proper diet but we also need to give ourselves what we need emotionally and spiritually.

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Our heart holds the key. It holds the key to health, particularly emotional and psychological health.

Our heart also knows the answers to what we need. Many people have written about this phenomenon- that the heart has a great intelligence.

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Are you looking for peace in a work gone crazy?  Sometimes it feels like there’s no hope.  Life seems to be spiraling out of control.  Our own lives can seem that way.
Most of what people want comes down to a sense of peace in their lives.  They may define it as happiness, contentment, or security.  [...]

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