Heart Disease

November 1 is  Dia de Los Muertos- Day of the Dead.  Today I honor my grandmother who died from respiratory illnesses, and my grandfather passed away from Dementia. My friend died by suicide ten years ago. There is a stigma around death, but we often forget no one gets out alive. We all end up...

February is American Heart Month. For you north of town, it's not because Valentine's Day is in February. The reason is to raise awareness of the seriousness of high blood pressure and heart disease, the numero uno killer in America. People think that mine must be through the roof, actually it's 120 over 72...

About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.