MIO Classic Petite – A Heart Rate Monitor to Suit your Budget and Needs

April 7th, 2009 by admin

To keep up with the hectic schedule in our day-to-day life, it is important to have a healthy heart and a fit body, which comes from maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Your heart rate is one of the most crucial indicators of your fitness level. Heart rate monitors help you follow your heart rate while doing various activities. This, in turn, lets you control the intensity of your activity. This is all the more important when you are trying hard to achieve certain fitness goals. There are a number of heart rate monitors available in the market today, but I strongly recommend the MIO Classic Select Petite Heart Rate Monitor Watch based on my personal experience. The MIO 0005-1-US-CLS Heart Rate Watch motivates you to reach your health and fitness goals with its weight management system. It actually lets you set daily calorie targets and monitor calorie intake. There are a number of other features that come with the MIO Classic Select Petite Heart Rate Monitor Watch Read More...

Peripheral Artery Diseases – Treatment and Control

April 4th, 2009 by admin

Peripheral artery disease (PAD), otherwise known as peripheral vascular disease, is a common circulatory problem, which narrows the arteries and reduces the blood flow to your limbs. Most of us do not find any signs and symptoms of it, but some may find a number of them. A few of these symptoms, that even you may have experienced, are: •  numbness or pain in the leg muscles •  painful cramps in your hips, thighs, or calf muscles •  change in the color of your legs •  sores on your feet or legs that won’t heal These heart diseases are caused by various reasons, the most common being atherosclerosis Read More...

Nutrients – Your Heart Needs Them!

March 30th, 2009 by Alex

Heart diseases are becoming more common these days in humans, that too, at an early stage in life. An alarming number of deaths occur due to these heart diseases. In fact, heart diseases are the leading single cause of death globally. In the United States alone 1 in 2 women die of heart disease. The sad fact is that this number is on the rise Read More...

Pain Killers may kill your Heart!

March 30th, 2009 by Meredith

There is a close connection between painkillers and heart diseases. Painkillers act as a boost to heart failure-related diseases. For those who never had a heart failure, the risk of hospitalization for the first time, mostly was due to the use of painkillers. For patients with pre-existing heart failure, painkillers only made things worse Read More...

The Most Widespread Congenital Heart Defects in Newborn Babies

March 18th, 2009 by admin

The word “congenital” means inborn or present at birth. Each year, an estimated forty thousand children are born with a congenital heart disease. Statistics reveal that in the United States alone, there are more than 25,000 babies who are born with congenital heart defects and the sad fact is that the numbers are on the rise Read More...