How to Eat Your Way to a Healthier Heart (Holistically)

How to Eat Your Way to a Healthier Heart (Holistically)

By Dr. Mercola Your cardiac muscles are rather specialized. While similar to your skeletal muscles in that they’re striated, their functionality more closely resembles your smooth muscles, as the continuous contraction of your heart is involuntary. Every minute, your heart pumps about 5 liters (1.3 gallons) of blood throughout your body, and for optimal health, it’s imperative your heart continues

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8 Simple Lifestyle Changes To Ward off Cardiovascular Disease

8 Simple Lifestyle Changes To Ward off Cardiovascular Disease

Plus 3D Video of How the Heart Works Cardiovascular disease usually involves conditions like congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, peripheral artery disease, and cardiac arrest among others.    If left untreated it can have devastating consequences including permanent disability and even death. If heart disease runs in your family or if you have been diagnosed with heart disease recently, you

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