Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year. Emily Holcraft was misdiagnosed while suffering from a heart attack. Read about her experience, … Read more
Children who are obese are above the normal weight for their age and height. Today, about one in three American kids and teens are overweight or obese; nearly triple the … Read more
Midlife weight gain is common. In two large-scale studies of health professionals in the United States, 93,000 women were asked to recall their weight at age 18 and 25,000 men … Read more
It is estimated that 1 in 6 women, and 1 in 10 men, who live past the age of 55 will develop dementia in their lifetime. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for … Read more
Before you know it, winter and flu season will be here. Each year thousands of adults in the United States get sick from diseases that are could be prevented by … Read more
The heart is the hardest working muscle in the human body. Every single day, the average heart beats 100,000 times and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood. In an average … Read more
A bathroom scale measures how much there is of you on the planet – not how healthy you are. Research shows that a regular exercise regime may not result in … Read more
Heart failure affects nearly 6 million Americans and is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than age 65. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a type of heart failure … Read more
