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    "title": "Harvard Health Posts by Lloyd Resnick Feed",
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            "id": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/exergames-a-new-step-toward-fitness-201203084470",
            "title": "Exergames: a new step toward fitness?",
            "url": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/exergames-a-new-step-toward-fitness-201203084470",
            "content_html": "Active-play videogames, also known as exergames, are a high-tech approach to fitness that could help some people become more active and stay that way. As described in the March 2012 Harvard Heart Letter, exergames offer muscle-strengthening workouts, balance and stretching games, aerobic exercises and dancing, martial arts, and simulated recreational activities such as golf, skiing, and more. Current exergames deliver moderate workouts at best. Some fitness and senior centers now incorporate exergames into their facilities. For a home system, you’ll probably spend about $250 for the basics — console, accessories such as handheld controls or balance board, and software.",
            "summary": "Active-play videogames, also known as exergames, are a high-tech approach to fitness that could help some people become more active and stay that way. As described in the March 2012 Harvard Heart Letter, exergames offer muscle-strengthening workouts, balance and stretching games, aerobic exercises and dancing, martial arts, and simulated recreational activities such as golf, skiing, and more. Current exergames deliver moderate workouts at best. Some fitness and senior centers now incorporate exergames into their facilities. For a home system, you’ll probably spend about $250 for the basics — console, accessories such as handheld controls or balance board, and software.",
            "date_published": "2012-03-08T16:07:15-05:00",
            "date_modified": "2012-03-08T16:07:15-05:00",
                        "authors": [                { "name": "Lloyd Resnick" }            ],
                        "image": "https://domf5oio6qrcr.cloudfront.net/medialibrary/8148/conversions/Video-boxing-thumb.jpg",

            "tags": [ "Exercise and Fitness" ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/should-kids-have-their-cholesterol-checked-201112224020",
            "title": "Should kids have their cholesterol checked?",
            "url": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/should-kids-have-their-cholesterol-checked-201112224020",
            "content_html": "New guidelines for from the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that all kids between the ages of 9 and 11 have their LDL (bad) cholesterol levels checked. The rationale is that atherosclerosis (the fatty gunk in arteries that causes heart attacks, strokes, and other serious problems) starts during youth. Atherosclerosis is fed by high LDL. The guidelines aren’t aimed at getting kids to take cholesterol-lowering statins. Instead, they are about getting kids, their parents, and their doctors to talk about making healthy lifestyle choices. The hope is that more doctor time spent coaching and counseling now will mean less time treating cardiovascular disease later.",
            "summary": "New guidelines for from the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that all kids between the ages of 9 and 11 have their LDL (bad) cholesterol levels checked. The rationale is that atherosclerosis (the fatty gunk in arteries that causes heart attacks, strokes, and other serious problems) starts during youth. Atherosclerosis is fed by high LDL. The guidelines aren’t aimed at getting kids to take cholesterol-lowering statins. Instead, they are about getting kids, their parents, and their doctors to talk about making healthy lifestyle choices. The hope is that more doctor time spent coaching and counseling now will mean less time treating cardiovascular disease later.",
            "date_published": "2011-12-22T18:52:27-05:00",
            "date_modified": "2011-12-22T18:52:27-05:00",
                        "authors": [                { "name": "Lloyd Resnick" }            ],
                        "image": "https://domf5oio6qrcr.cloudfront.net/medialibrary/8110/conversions/Boy-eating-pizza-thumb.jpg",

            "tags": [ "Pediatric health","Heart Health" ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fall-back-from-daylight-savings-time-may-be-good-for-the-heart-201111043760",
            "title": "Fall back from daylight savings time may be good for the heart",
            "url": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fall-back-from-daylight-savings-time-may-be-good-for-the-heart-201111043760",
            "content_html": "Most Americans fall back from daylight savings 2011 during the wee hours of Sunday morning, November 6. Although the time change can be discombobulating, our hearts like it better than springing ahead. One study showed fewer heart attacks on the Monday after the end of daylight savings time in the fall; the opposite happens in the spring. Getting, or losing, that extra hour of sleep may explain the differences. Ways to ease into the time change include going to bed and waking up at the same time as usual, and getting some sunlight on Sunday as soon as you get out of bed.",
            "summary": "Most Americans fall back from daylight savings 2011 during the wee hours of Sunday morning, November 6. Although the time change can be discombobulating, our hearts like it better than springing ahead. One study showed fewer heart attacks on the Monday after the end of daylight savings time in the fall; the opposite happens in the spring. Getting, or losing, that extra hour of sleep may explain the differences. Ways to ease into the time change include going to bed and waking up at the same time as usual, and getting some sunlight on Sunday as soon as you get out of bed.",
            "date_published": "2011-11-04T12:30:38-04:00",
            "date_modified": "2011-11-04T12:30:38-04:00",
                        "authors": [                { "name": "Lloyd Resnick" }            ],
            
            "tags": [ "Heart Health" ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-once-and-future-meditator-tries-the-relaxation-response-for-stress-201110143598",
            "title": "A once (and future) meditator tries the relaxation response for stress",
            "url": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-once-and-future-meditator-tries-the-relaxation-response-for-stress-201110143598",
            "content_html": "Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Herbert Benson defined and tested the relaxation response. This simple method for quieting brain activity slows the body’s processes and induces a feeling of well-being. Both have measurably positive effects on disorders caused by stress or made worse by it, including high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, and many digestive disorders. In a recent lecture at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Benson described the technique and talked a crowd through it. Inducing the relaxation response is simple: Sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed. Relax your muscles and silently repeat a word, phrase, sound, or short prayer of your choosing over and over. When stray thoughts interfere (as they will), let them come and go and return to your word, phrase, or sound. Doing this daily can help ease stress.",
            "summary": "Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Herbert Benson defined and tested the relaxation response. This simple method for quieting brain activity slows the body’s processes and induces a feeling of well-being. Both have measurably positive effects on disorders caused by stress or made worse by it, including high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, and many digestive disorders. In a recent lecture at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Benson described the technique and talked a crowd through it. Inducing the relaxation response is simple: Sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed. Relax your muscles and silently repeat a word, phrase, sound, or short prayer of your choosing over and over. When stray thoughts interfere (as they will), let them come and go and return to your word, phrase, or sound. Doing this daily can help ease stress.",
            "date_published": "2011-10-14T17:00:43-04:00",
            "date_modified": "2011-10-14T17:00:43-04:00",
                        "authors": [                { "name": "Lloyd Resnick" }            ],
                        "image": "https://domf5oio6qrcr.cloudfront.net/medialibrary/8079/conversions/Relaxation-at-work-thumb.jpg",

            "tags": [ "Mental Health","Stress" ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/blockages-in-tiny-heart-arteries-a-big-problem-for-women-2-201109283403",
            "title": "Blockages in tiny heart arteries a big problem for women",
            "url": "https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/blockages-in-tiny-heart-arteries-a-big-problem-for-women-2-201109283403",
            "content_html": "About 10% of women who have heart attacks seem to have clear, unblocked arteries. They don’t, really. Instead, they have a problem inside tiny arteries supplying the heart muscle, called microvessels. Traditional diagnostic tests can’t “see” into microvessels. In larger coronary arteries, the buildup of cholesterol-filled plaque creates distinct bulges that narrow the vessel at a particular spot, reducing blood flow. In microvessels, plaque uniformly coats the inner layer. This reduces the space for blood flow and makes the arteries stiff and less able to expand in response to exercise or other stress. Researchers are still trying to determine the best ways to diagnose and treat microvessel disease. Talking to cardiologists at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz said that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil), which was originally developed to improve blood flow to the heart, is being tested as one possible therapy.",
            "summary": "About 10% of women who have heart attacks seem to have clear, unblocked arteries. They don’t, really. Instead, they have a problem inside tiny arteries supplying the heart muscle, called microvessels. Traditional diagnostic tests can’t “see” into microvessels. In larger coronary arteries, the buildup of cholesterol-filled plaque creates distinct bulges that narrow the vessel at a particular spot, reducing blood flow. In microvessels, plaque uniformly coats the inner layer. This reduces the space for blood flow and makes the arteries stiff and less able to expand in response to exercise or other stress. Researchers are still trying to determine the best ways to diagnose and treat microvessel disease. Talking to cardiologists at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz said that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil), which was originally developed to improve blood flow to the heart, is being tested as one possible therapy.",
            "date_published": "2011-09-28T15:35:54-04:00",
            "date_modified": "2011-09-28T15:35:54-04:00",
                        "authors": [                { "name": "Lloyd Resnick" }            ],
                        "image": "https://domf5oio6qrcr.cloudfront.net/medialibrary/8074/conversions/Microvessels1-thumb.jpg",

            "tags": [ "Heart Health","Women's Health" ]
        }        
    ]
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