In honor of National Heart Health Month, we’ve identified the most common cravings–salty, sweet, crunchy–and how to get the same satisfaction by choosing heart healthy foods instead of junk food.
Daily Yogurt Intake May Lower Diabetes Risk
Yogurt is quite popular these days. There are countless commercials for various yogurts on television and they all promote a healthy lifestyle. Some are guilt-free and low-calorie. Some are foreign and sexy. And some aim to assist your digestive health. While...
Women Can Have Chest Pains Too
Around 6:20pm on Saturday, November 29, 2014, Medical Guardian emergency operators received an alert from Las Vegas, NV resident, Deanna M. Deanna’s relative, Gary, was with her and reported that she was experiencing chest pains and would like medical assistance to be...
Top Fitness Trends of 2014
How will you remember 2014? As the year that you began your retirement? As the year you took a ballroom dancing class? As the year that you got hooked on Downton Abbey? Or maybe this was the year that you decided to get in shape. According to Fitness Together, 2014...
Progressive Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
More than 5 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s Disease, and someone new is diagnosed every 67 seconds. While Alzheimer’s and dementia are frustrating diagnoses to receive, it’s also often quite difficult for the loved ones of those diagnosed to...
Seniors and Shingles
When you were a kid, the chickenpox were probably not that big a deal. You’d stay home from school for a week, put on some calamine lotion, and do your best not to scratch. It was no fun but you got through it. Indeed, according to the CDC, one out of every three...
