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Watch Your Stress, and Drop Your Cardiovascular Risk
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Music and Your Brain: How Music Helps with Mental Health
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Exercise and Heart Health: How Much Do You Need to Do?
EMBRACE EXERCISE and general fitness, and you will likely experience improvements in heart health and quality of life. Also, we have the known beneficial effects on weight control, lipids, blood pressure, and more.... Read More
You May Live Longer If You Optimize Sleep
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Exercise and Your Biology
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Omega-3 Fatty Acids: The Promise and the Peril
Omega-3 Fatty Acids: The Promise and the Peril Studies in the 1970s demonstrated very low coronary heart disease rates among Eskimos in Greenland who consumed large amounts of seafood. Since then,... Read More