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["Heart Rate Variability, or HRV, is under-appreciated measure of heart health...] Greater Heart Rate Variability The term called “heart rate variability” means that minute-by-minute (or even second-by-second) your heart rate fluctuates depending on internal and external stimulus. If your resting heart rate is 60 beats per minute, it makes sense that your heart would beat [...]
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From the American Heart Association December 22, 2010 The American Heart Association has compiled its annual list of the top 10 major advances in heart disease. “We have come far in the past decade, reducing heart disease deaths by more than 27 percent,” said Ralph Sacco of the University of Miami. “But we know there [...]
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“Top Ten” lists are very popular on the Web. I think it is partially because there is so much information out there that this becomes a way of prioritizing information. (Did it all start with David Letterman?) I may be jaded, but I don’t find all of these facts “amazing” and especially not “the top [...]
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Four of Time Magazine‘s selections for the top medical breakthrough of the last year involve the heart — Avandia, CPR, a blood test for heart attack, and the development of stem cells. On the average, medical practice is about fifteen to twenty years behind the research. So the average patient may have to wait at [...]
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This article suggests an interesting variable in the research about depression, happiness and heart disease — that it is the expression of the happiness, and not just an internal feeling of happiness, that it is the critical variable. It makes me wonder whether this also applies to depression — if one actually expresses the depression [...]
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In 1961, someone made up the term “Nocebo”, taking a clue from the Latin “placebo”, and essentially meaning, “I will harm.” The term became popular in the 90′s, but I haven’t seen it around much these days. I always found it a bit of a strange word, and never used it in a sentence until [...]
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