Heart disease kills one woman every minute. For generations, women’s heart disease has lurked in the shadows as a silent and misunderstood killer. Its victims are often presumed to have died of natural causes or passed peacefully in their sleep. Legendary entertainer Barbra Streisand is lending her voice to a…
If you’re a parent of a teenager, you’re probably familiar with the mood swings hormone surges can produce. You know how they affect temperament — but what about heart health? Although hormone changes and rapid growth can cause temporary changes in cholesterol levels or blood pressure, hormonal surges don’t pose a…
Blueberries have superpowers,” says Vilma Andari, M.S., nutritionist and founder of NutraHealthFood, a health and wellness company in Los Angeles. While this statement may seem radical, Andari is on to something. Recently, Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association published a study reporting that blueberries may cut heart attack risk in…
Even before the economic upheaval of the past decade, few service industries did less to provide actual services to clients than banking. Fees consistently rose, conveniences were regularly eliminated and customer service was unceasingly an afterthought. Consolidation in the banking industry has served to intensify these trends. However, it has…
Long hailed as being able to predict the trends based on word usage alone, Oxford Dictionaries unveils an annual Word of the Year that’s eerily on target (for example, last year’s word was “selfie”). This year’s word? Vape. It means inhaling and exhaling the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette…
The Sandwich generation is a generation of people who care for their aging parents while supporting their own children. According to the Pew Research Center, just over 1 of every 8 Americans aged 40 to 60 is both raising a child and caring for a parent, in addition to between…