Mindfulness is a form of meditation that encourages greater awareness of one's surroundings and experiences. Volunteers with heart failure who participated in a mindfulness study reported lower levels of anxiety and feelings of better overall health.

Nuts are considered a healthy food when eaten in moderate amounts, but chewing them thoroughly seems to release more of the nut's nutritional value.

A comparison of several different diet strategies found that the choice of diet is less important than cutting daily calorie intake and exercising enough to burn extra calories.

What are the differences between atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation?

Are there any cardiovascular benefits to donating blood? Is it like getting an oil change for your car, with the donation getting rid of old blood cells and the body making new ones?

A personalized approach is best for opening narrowed coronary arteries.

When cholesterol-filled plaque severely narrows a coronary artery and causes chest pain or other symptoms, there are two ways to immediately improve blood flow — angioplasty, usually with the placement of a wire-mesh stent, or bypass surgery. If the blockage is simple and confined to a single artery, angioplasty is often a good choice. It is quick and effective, and since it doesn't require opening ...

You don't need to be a Pisces for your heart, and the rest of you, to reap the benefits of swimming.

Any kind of exercise is better for your heart than no exercise at all. Walking is often held up as the gold standard — most people can do it, it's easy on the body, and it doesn't take any special equipment or venue. Walking isn't necessarily the best exercise for the heart and general ...

Clots that form in a leg or arm vein can be deadly; prevention is key.

Blood clots are lifesavers when they seal a cut. They can be dangerous, even deadly, when they form inside an artery or vein. A blood clot inside a coronary artery can trigger a heart attack; one inside an artery feeding the brain can set off a stroke. Inside a leg vein, a blood clot can cause deep-vein thrombosis. Never heard of it? You're in good company. In a survey conducted by the American Public Health Association, barely one-quarter of adults were aware of ...

Omega-6 fats from vegetable oils — like their cousins, the omega-3 fats from fish — are good for the heart.

Omega, the final letter of the Greek alphabet, is often used to signify the last of something, or the end. When applied to dietary fats, though, omega represents a healthy beginning. Two families of polyunsaturated fats, the omega-3 and the omega-6 fats, are good for the heart and the rest of the body.

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