To get the most aerobic benefit from your workouts, find out your target heart rate, which is based on your age, resting heart rate and activity level.
Download “A Meditation To Help You With A Healthy Heart” and feel the stress leave your body. This audio file includes guided imagery and affirmations.
Some heart disease risks are avoidable and others are not. Two unavoidable risks include age and a family history of heart disease.
With Sue Heikkinen, RD, dietitian with Kaiser Permanente
With Sally Berga, MD, Ob/Gyn with Kaiser Permanente and Andrea Groth, MS, prevention specialist with Kaiser Permanente
With Christopher Lang, MD, cardiologist with Kaiser Permanente
With Steve Haley, MD, internist with Kaiser Permanente and Kate Felix, PhD, RN, with Kaiser Permanente
according to U.S. News/NCQA America's Best Health
Insurance Plans 2009-10.*
*America's Best Insurance Health Plans is a trademark of
U.S. News & World Report.
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