February 18, 2020 by Joyce Bunderson
It hasn’t been quite a year (April 16, 2019) since I last posted to my blog. It appears that many of you continue to come to read the articles and/or recipes. I’m pleased that is still going on. I’m not planning on going back to weekly writing (the eleven-year stint has truly ended); but I […]
Tags: Avoiding Junk Foods, Enhancing Brain Function, Healthy Eating, Mediterranean kitchen, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
February 5, 2019 by Joyce Bunderson
February is dedicated to the emotional heart and, certainly The American Heart Association has not missed the chance to connect the emotional heart and the physical heart. That said, I think I’ll follow their lead and use the Valentine Day Month as a good time to share some information about the physical heart – heart […]
Tags: heart health, Mediterranean kitchen, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
May 29, 2018 by Joyce Bunderson
Hypertension or high blood pressure has long been known as a silent killer; the fact that humans don’t really feel their blood pressure, means that a person can have lethal blood pressure and not have a clue. So the first step is to take opportunities to check your blood pressure fairly frequently. The next step […]
Tags: Exercise, Healthy Eating, heart health, Mediterranean kitchen, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
December 12, 2017 by Joyce Bunderson
As so often happens, two fairly unrelated pieces of information, meet in my mind and blend into thoughts that I want to share with you. This week, the first of the two is a lovely piece of public health information about the five top cancer prevention stories of 2017 published by the American Institute for […]
Tags: Health Claims, Reduce cancer risk, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
December 5, 2017 by Joyce Bunderson
Yes, It’s December yet again. It reminds me that it’s been an entire year since a well-done study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) gave many of us a gift. The gift? To me it seemed like a gift. If your family members have a history of early cardiovascular disease, you may […]
Tags: Reduce cancer risk, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
August 22, 2017 by Joyce Bunderson
Researchers at Imperial College in London and University of Cambridge have conducted a study that compares “healthy” and “unhealthy” obese individuals and published the findings in The European Heart Journal. Use this doi number: doi/10.10936/eurheartj/ehx448/4081012. There’s been a lot of chat about overweight and obese persons who are healthy; you may be acquainted with the […]
Tags: heart health, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk, Weight Management
August 1, 2017 by Joyce Bunderson
Today’s issue is one of those concerns that has been a question brewing in my mind, just below the surface for a long time. What I’m writing about today is the problem of unhealthful plant-based diets. I’ve personally known people, self-proclaimed vegetarians, who are grabbing products like Pop-tarts (white processed flour, filled with sugary hot […]
Tags: Healthy Eating, heart health, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
July 4, 2017 by Joyce Bunderson
This is the first year for us to harvest raspberries from our very own vines. In all honesty, it’s a bit of a workout, especially if the sun gets up earlier than I get picking. But those beautiful, organic, sweet red rubies are a wonderful treasure incentive. We’ve been liberally blanketing our cereal with a […]
Tags: Healthy Eating, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
June 27, 2017 by Joyce Bunderson
If you’ve seen a big giggly chunk of animal fat, you know that the thought of juggling fat sounds like a difficult task. Seriously, I realize that you don’t want to juggle fat (and neither do I); but I do want to help you balance the types of fat in your diet. In addition, I […]
Tags: Cooking & Baking Hints, Healthy Eating, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
June 20, 2017 by Joyce Bunderson
This is one of those days that I need a little extra motivation to get to writing on the subject that I’ve chosen. It’s a little de-motivating to realize that 72 percent of the American public consider coconut oil a health food; after all the effort that nutritionists/dietitians like myself have spent for decades trying […]
Tags: Avoiding Junk Foods, Food Economics, Foodland, Health Claims, Healthy Eating, heart health, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk