Heart Health Blog

212 articles on preventive cardiology, lifestyle medicine, and evidence-based heart health.

Health & WellnessHeart Health

Laughing Out Loud For Better Health

I don’t know about you but this has been one very long and seemingly unending week! No matter your political persuasion, stress levels have been quite high. But...

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COVID-19Health & Wellness

COVID-19: Thinking About Ben Franklin

Whereas Ben Franklin and our Founding Fathers would have worked tirelessly to prevent/control spread of COVID-19, current pandemic messaging contains reverse lo...

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COVID-19Health & Wellness

Love in the time of COVID-19

25 years ago today, my wife Lisa and I had our first date.  Months earlier, we met each other the old fashioned way, at one of Baltimore’s landmark watering hol...

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Health & WellnessRelationships

Happy 104th Birthday to a Most Remarkable Man

My father-in-law Paul, was born on this date (October 17) in 1916, two years before the dreaded Spanish Flu Pandemic and more than a decade before the Great Dep...

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COVID-19Health & Wellness

COVID-19: Do Masks Really Work?

Now that the President, First Lady and others have contracted COVID-19, presumably linked to last week’s Rose Garden Event where COVID restrictions were neither...

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Health & WellnessHeart Health

Where are the 5 Heart-Healthiest Communities?

Recently U.S. News & World Report published a list of the overall healthiest communities in the nation. Check out Kristen Fischer’s piece in Verywell Health tha...

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COVID-19Health & Wellness

The COVID-19 Heart: Scientific Sense

This past week, I had the pleasure of being a guest on Gill Eapen’s Podcast, “Scientific Sense” where we discussed the latest evidence related to COVID-19 and t...

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COVID-19Health & Wellness

Back To College in the COVID-19 Era

With one of my daughters returning to college over the weekend, I reminded her that she needs to remain diligent both on and off campus, to wear a mask, to soci...

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Nutrition Controversies

Back To College in the COVID Era

With one of my daughters returning to college over the weekend, I reminded her that she needs to remain diligent both on and off campus, to wear a mask, to soci...

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Health & WellnessHeart Health

Finding the Heart Healthy “Sweet Spots” as you Age

This article was adapted from my piece in yesterday’s Baltimore Times. Overall death rates from heart and blood vessel disease are down, thanks to improved prev...

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