Welcome to Take Time for Your Heart – a free prevention and wellness program aimed towards helping individuals make positive lifestyle changes for a longer, healthier life.
The choices we make every day can be potential risk factors for many chronic health issues, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, dementia and various types of cancer.
You Can reduce your risk of developing these serious diseases.
You Can be a healthier you.
The Take Time for Your Heart program is filled with strategies, tools and resources to help you take control of unhealthy behaviors and improve your quality of life. You’ll discover videos featuring practical tips from St. Elizabeth cardiologists and clinical experts. Plus, materials and resources for incorporating healthier habits into your daily routines, and so much more.
With Take Time for Your Heart, You Can…
Heart disease can lead to potentially fatal complications, yet an estimated 80% of these conditions are preventable in most people. Our experts offer reliable recommendations to help boost your heart-health and overall well-being.
High blood pressure makes the heart to pump harder, which can cause damage to the arteries and lead to serious heart problems, including a heart attack. Discover how lifestyle behaviors play a big role in managing your blood pressure.
You’ve probably heard about the importance of knowing your cholesterol levels – however, there’s much more to the story. We need some cholesterol to keep us healthy but when there’s too much, that’s when things get bad. Discover how cholesterol impacts your heart health.
Regulating your blood sugar levels can go a long way in reducing your risk of heart disease. Overtime, uncontrolled high blood sugar can damage the blood vessels and nerves that control your heart. Learn how diet, exercise and other lifestyle modifications can help.
Your diet affects many of the important factors that determine your heart health – such as blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure and weight. Learn why sound nutrition is essential to lowering your risk of heart disease.
The Mediterranean diet is one of the most studied and well-known dietary patterns worldwide. It has been associated with a wide range of health benefits and doesn’t involve many of the sacrifices people associate with healthy eating.
Did you know that most of the salt in our diets comes from pre-made or packaged foods from the grocery store and meals from restaurants rather than from the saltshaker on our table? Salt can be sneaky, it’s important to know where to look.
The main rule for being physically active is simple – get moving. You don’t need an expensive gym membership or high-tech equipment. Regardless of your age, it’s never too late to incorporate some level of physical activity into your daily life to improve your heart health and quality of life.
When it comes to a healthy body weight, there is no magic number. Finding the right weight for your body means looking beyond the scale or your reflection in the mirror and focusing more on adopting healthy behaviors to help you feel better, stronger and more energized.
The way you feel when you’re awake largely depends on what happens when you’re asleep. Being deprived of quality sleep not only affects your mood and memory, it has also been associated with an increased risk of serious health issues – including cardiovascular disease.
We all experience some degree of stress in our everyday lives, but when it gets out of control or is left unchecked – it can have a serious impact on your heart. Identifying triggers and developing healthy coping skills can help decrease the effects of stress and keep your heart healthy.
Medicine is meant to help you get better, but if it’s not taken as prescribed or it causes an interaction with another drug you’re taking, it can do more harm than good. Knowing everything you can about the medications you take is essential to your treatment goals.
Smoking tobacco is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S. Quitting reduces these dangers, no matter how long you’ve been a smoker. Get tips on how to beat this highly addictive habit and reap the benefits from stopping.
All tobacco products, including vaping, are not safe alternatives to cigarettes. These products cause or worsen the risk of numerous life-threatening diseases and conditions. It’s important to understand the dangerous impact they have on your health.
The importance of calling 9-1-1 for a heart related incident can’t be stressed enough. Recognizing a medical emergency and quickly responding to the signs could potentially make a difference between life and death.
You Can Be a Healthier You
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