In the Fitness app, as well as several other heart-related data, now Apple also monitors heart rate variability (HRV). HRV data will help you gain insight into how you recover from exercise or injury, your levels of stress, and even your heart in general, the sympathetic nervous system. Heart rate variability (HRV): what is it and why is it monitored by the Apple Watch? Using several different applications, each of which uses a variety of frequency and frequency metrics to help you get … [Read more...]
11 Heart-Healthy Foods to Fuel Your Cardiac Diet
When you are watching what you eat, times are tough already. When the need to watch what you eat extends to your health? You don't need any excess stress, mucking up your diet. To that end, we put together this list of heart-friendly foods to help set you on the right path � and keep you there. Try These 11 Foods for a Healthy Heart! Which are the eleven best foods to fuel a cardiac diet? Let's find out! 1 � Olive Oil There is a reason that those on a Mediterranean diet oft … [Read more...]
American Heart Month | Quick Tips for Heart Health
It's not just Valentine's Day that makes the �heart' the symbol of the month. Turns out February is American Heart Month, proclaimed so by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963. Spreading awareness about heart health and taking early action to stay educated plays a critical role in any mom's life, especially since 1 woman dies almost every 80 seconds in the U.S. from cardiovascular diseases. What exactly is cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Any disease which affects the integrity or structure o … [Read more...]
