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Healthy Blood Pressure: How to Help Our Kids

Years ago, high blood pressure was something adults developed as they got older. But given our modern day lifestyles—filled with fast-food based, high fat diets, and sedentary activities—record numbers of children have hypertension. As caretakers for our children during their early lives,…

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Gifts That Give and Give and Give!

We’ve all heard the expression, “Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for today; teach a man to fish, and you have fed him for a lifetime.” Dr. Sinatra and I have found this to be so true. In his monthly newsletter Heart, Health & Nutrition, Dr. Sinatra teaches people to “fish” by…

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The Heart-Health/Skin-Health Connection

There I stood, flipping through magazine pages during a recent airport layover, when I caught sight of a celebrity endorsement for a book I had “forgotten” was due out this fall. The summer had gone by so quickly that I was amazed to see so soon the engaging cover art that grabbed my attention.…

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Diabetes is No Reason to Jump on the Statin Bandwagon

As if the MacStatin study wasn’t bad enough, there was another recent example of the statin-for-everything mania...and it's ironically timely, given that November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. British researcher John Betteridge, from the University College of London, advised a gathering…

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