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Take Charge of Your HEART Health…because you’re one in a million

  February is the month for taking control of your heart health.  Our heart is the organ that pumps blood through our body to both supply needed nutrients and oxygen to create the fuel needed to live, work and play.  The pumped blood also transports waste products that need to be eliminated.  Our lives depend […]

WRITTEN BY: Margaret Jenkins, Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Educator, Ohio State University Extension

REVIEWED BY: Pat Brinkman, Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Educator, Ohio State University Extension

SOURCES:

  • https://fcs.osu.edu/programs/major-program-areas/healthy-people/million-hearts
  • https://clermont.osu.edu/program-areas/family-and-consumer-sciences/dining-diabetes
  • http://www.clermonthealthdistrict.org/ClermontCANMain.aspx
  • http://millonhearts.hhs.gov
  • http://millionhearts.osu.edu

REFERENCES:

  • https://www.odh.ohio.gov/-/media/ODH/ASSETS/Files/health/Chronic-Disease-Plan/CD-Burden-Final_Webv2.pdf?la=en

Let’s have a heart to heart…

Since February is American Heart Month, now is the perfect time to look at health and lifestyle patterns and how they affect heart health. Heart disease is the number one cause of death for American women and men. This accounts for 1 in 4 deaths in the United States. Although there are many risk factors […]

WRITTEN BY: Shannon Carter, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, Fairfield County

REVIEWED BY: Amy Habig, Program Specialist, Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program, Ohio State University Extension

SOURCES:

  • “How much physical activity do adults need?” June 2015. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • “How to eat healthy without dieting.” January 2017. The American Heart Association.

September is High Blood Cholesterol Month Find Out Your Numbers!

Nearly 30 years ago, within a 7 year time span, both of my parents died of cardiovascular disease. I was a young woman in her mid-twenties and they were in their early fifties. My father had high blood pressure, needed to lose weight and to stop smoking. Their lifestyles weren’t health oriented. They started smoking […]

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