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Practicing mindfulness and meditation may help you manage stress and high blood pressure, feel more balanced, and even lower your risk of heart disease. Try this quick body scan meditation to help release tension in your body and quiet your mind.
Chuck Wendel is alive today because of an AED at the high school gym where he had a cardiac arrest. In rural North Dakota, where paramedics could be an hour away, a state program prepares communities to act.
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Summer means backyard barbecues! But many of the foods we throw on the grill – like ribs, hot dogs and burgers – can raise the risk for heart disease, as can cooking meat at high temps. But that doesn’t mean you need to close the lid on grilling. Here’s how to cook out healthier.
Like many people in rural West Virginia, Sabrina Ford grew up on beans cooked with lard and cornbread loaded with sugar, often with a side of fried potatoes cooked in bacon grease. But years of eating high-fat, fried and sugary foods have resulted in another family tradition: heart disease and other chronic illnesses.
As the director of nursing at Rainelle Medical Center, the only clinic serving the town's roughly 1,170 residents, Sabrina worries that if she doesn't change the unhealthy situation, her grandchildren will be next.
"I don't want that for them," she said, nor does she want to miss seeing them grow up. "I want to be around for a long time. I want to see them graduate high school."
Rural Americans – particularly those in Appalachia – face some of the highest rates of heart disease and chronic illness in the nation. West Virginia ranks at or near the top for rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, along with cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking and obesity.
Sabrina and her daughter, Sarah Ward, a diabetes specialist at the medical center, are working to break the stranglehold of chronic illness with Wellness Works, a program that helps others create and maintain a healthier lifestyle. In the region they serve, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels have all decreased.
"We use our influence as health care professionals to display how being active, cooking healthy meals, shopping for better choices at the grocery store and growing your own food can be possible, even with the barriers we all face," Sarah said.
“I'm dieting, watching what I eat. I've lost 60 pounds,” Sabrina said. “I want to pass it down to my grandchildren that we practice good healthy habits."
Each year, this country’s women lose 1.6 million years of life due to cardiovascular disease. But we’re not hopeless. With the right actions, we could unlock those years, and boost the U.S. economy by $28 billion annually by 2040. Read more in our new paper with the McKinsey Health Institute. Use #LinkInBio .
