Tips to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
Managing your health is a team effort. And that’s also true for keeping your heart healthy. Here are some steps…
Heart-Healthy Alternative on the Go: Mason Jar Salad
Life gets busy, but it’s still important to regularly enjoy a healthy lunch. Federico De Puy, MD, cardiologist with Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group, enjoys making mason jar salads and shares his method for a healthy, convenient lunch on-the-go. Wash, chop and prepare all the ingredients Sunday evening, then they’re ready to go…
After the Heart Attack: Understanding Heart Attack Recovery
Learn how your life changes following a heart attack.
Keep Up the Rhythm of Your Beat – Heart Health for Women
Hollywood has conditioned us to look for signs of a heart attack in very specific ways—like an actress clutching her…
Filling Recipes to Warm Your Heart and Keep it Healthy
It can be hard to listen to your heart if your stomach is growling too loudly. Nourishing your body well is an important part of keeping your heart healthy. Jen Bay Avis, MEd, LDN, RD, CDE, outpatient dietitian at St. Francis Medical Center, shares some heart-healthy recipes; two that will make great dinner options and…
Heart-Healthy Options for Every Meal of Your Day
Delicious food that’s good for your heart health also can be easy to prepare. If you’re looking for inspiration, you’ve found it! Louisa Whitmire, RDN, LDN, health coach and dietitian at St. Dominic Hospital, shares suggestions for each meal of the day, but don’t limit yourself. Any of these recipes would be great to eat…
What’s the Score with Arterial Calcium Tests?
This painless, easily accessed test costs only $100 and just may save your life. Dr. R. Chance DeWitt, a Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgeon with Our Lady of Lourdes Heart Hospital in Lafayette, shares more about calcium score tests. It almost seems Cajuns, Creoles and heart disease go together like rice and gravy. You would be…
Men in High-stress Jobs Need to Pay Attention to Heart Health
It wouldn’t be a spoiler to tell you that in the very first episode of the HBO series Succession, the CEO of a major media corporation suffers a serious health scare that threatens to upend his company. That medical emergency sets off all manner of corporate chess games, alliances and backstabbing as his adult children…
A Stroke, a Heart Attack and Extraordinary Care
The days leading up to Richard’s heart attack and stroke at first seemed to him like any other week. “I was real big into exercising,” he says. “As age came on, I started doing speed walking. I got to where I’d go down two miles, then turn around and go back to my truck.” Walking his…
