How Oral Health May Be Linked To Heart and Brain Health


Research suggests a connection between oral bacteria and Alzheimer’s disease, raising concerns for those with poor dental health. With nearly 700 species of bacteria in our mouths, experts say maintaining good oral hygiene could benefit both heart and brain health. Dr. Celine Gounder, CBS News medical contributor explains what this means.

Source: CBS Mornings March 2025


Weight Loss Motivation

 

Americans Are Over Fed

If you’re a typical American, you don’t have a problem with starvation.  You have problem with eating too much, and overdosing on calories.

Before you know it, you don’t want to look in the mirror.  Just buy another XXL tee shirt and baggy pants, to cover up the excess fat.

Excess Fat Is A Walking Time Bomb

You know that the excess fat is making you into a walking time bomb for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, low backache, hip, knee and lumbar dysfunction.

There are hundreds of people like you who don’t want to carry around excess fat, but don’t know how to start losing unwanted pounds, or just can’t find the motivation to get started.

Hundreds Of People Have Lost Weight

When you click on this link, it will take you to a website where you can read hundreds of weight loss success stories from real people, like yourself.  All the stories are different.

Breaking Points

On this list are typical reasons people begin a weight loss program in earnest.  Read through the breaking points, to help yourself find the motivation to drop excess fat.

  • Tired all the time.  No energy to care for children.
  • At 24, my doctor told me I had liver disease, and that I’d need a liver transplant.
  • At 30 I was taking blood pressure medication, and dealing with alot of anxiety and stress.  I wanted to feel better, and was terrified of developing heart disease and diabetes.
  • At 54, I weighed 315 pounds, and sleeping 18 hours a day.
  • My business failed because of the way I looked.
  • I knew I was a high risk for diabetes.  I didn’t want it to happen to me.
  • I took full responsibility for weighing 500 pounds, and decided it was time to take it off.
  • After looking at photographs of myself, I decided to make changes in my weight.
  • I suffered from backaches, had problems walking up stairs, and reaching down to tie my shoe laces.
  • I got out-of-breath trying to reach down to put on my socks.  It was time for a change.
  • I weighed more than 475 pounds from compulsive eating at all-you-can-eat fast food restaurants, and no exercise.   I wanted to live to see my grandson grow up.
  • At 34 I weighed 433 pounds.  I took a pool exercise class with 60 year-old women, and couldn’t keep up.  I could barely move.  I was considering using a mobility chair.
  • I was obese when I got married, and was embarrassed by the photographs.
  • I was inspired by co-workers who lost weight.
  • Photographs of myself made me cringe.
  • In the Christmas party photos, I looked like I had 15 chins.
  • I was made fun of in high school because of my obesity.

Get Motivated

Read about 382 Weight Loss Storiesand get inspired.

Copyright 2013 Irene Pastore and Blue Moon Personal Training

The Doc Is In: Meat Free Meals Are Humane, Hearty and Healthy

The following article appeared in the Humane Society Guide To Meat-Free Meals, and was written by Doctor Michael Greger, Director of HSUS Public Health.

We don’t need to consume animals to be healthy – just the opposite.  Nutriton experts worldwide advise us to increase our consumption of plant-based foods and to cut down on saturated animal fat and cholesterol, which are found exclusively in meat, eggs, and dairy products.

Meat-free diets are recommended by the American Heart Association, National Cancer Institute, World Health Organization, and U.S. dietary guidelines.

The health benefits are clear.

  • People who eat fewer animal products have lower rates of obesity,dementia, arthritis, high blood pressure, kidney disease, gallstones, hemorrhoids, constipation, diverticulosis, and appendicitis.
  • People who eat completely meatless diets are half as likely to become hospitalized or require medications, and they’re less likely to need emergency medical procedures.
  • Meat-free diets are even being used to reverse chronic diseases: opening clogged arteries, curing type 2 diabetes, and alleviated obesity.

Humane diets may also boost our longevity.  The population with the longest life expectancy isn’t the Okinawa Japanese or the Mediterranean Sardinians, but California Adventist vegetarians, who live up to 10 years longer than the average American and enjoy lower rates of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain cancers.

Choosing animal-free foods is an easy, inexpensive way to shed unnecessary pounds, reduce cancer risk, and improve heart health.  Join millions of Americans in discovering the joys and benefits of leaving animal products off your plate.

Heart Disease Facts

BOARDROOM HEART ATTACK

If you really love your family, please take better care of yourself.  Your family may be parents who depend on you, your children, a partner, a spouse, companion animals, close friends, a child who isn’t well.

Heart disease is The Number One Cause of Death for men and women in the United States.  Here are more sad facts about heart disease from the Heart Foundation, and the Centers For Disease Control.

Information in this post is educational.  It should not be used to replace medical advice from your physician, or other healthcare provider.

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