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Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be holding an official ground-breaking ceremony today for a new $350 million center dedicated to the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center—named after the donors who contributed $25 million—will completely revamp the way cardiovascular patients are treated, according to Kenneth L. Baughman, director of the advanced heart disease section at Brigham and Women’s. “This will be the first time that all cardiovascular services will...
...MAKES A DIFFERENCE Youngsters who took gym classes that maximized movement and focused on fitness-boosting activities like walking and cycling showed more fat loss and cardiovascular improvement than kids in standard...
...smoke. Tobacco addiction is the single greatest cause of preventable illness. Exposure to tobacco smoke not only increases the odds of developing many kinds of cancer but also raises the risks of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Inhalation of vaporized nicotine is as addictive as the smoking of crack cocaine or crystal methamphetamine. Almost all cases of tobacco addiction begin in the teenage years or earlier; therefore, I address this message to young readers. Do not experiment with smoking: the chance of becoming addicted is too great, and this is one of the hardest of all addictions to break...
Watch your weight. Morbid obesity, sometimes defined as being more than 100 lbs. above your "normal" weight, is incompatible with healthy aging because it increases the risk of a number of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis. Ordinary obesity--weighing at least 20% more than you should--correlates with milder forms of these diseases as well as with increased incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer and cancer of the uterus, colon, kidney and esophagus. But what is normal, and how much should you weigh...
Alasti plans on continuing this routine for as long as he works here, citing cardiovascular benefits he wouldn’t get from “just walking around...