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The OMRON 10 Series Home Blood Pressure Monitor Review

If you suffer from high blood pressure, you know how important it is to closely monitor your blood pressure at home.  For around $70.00 USD, you can buy the OMRON 10 Series home blood pressure monitor and give yourself of ease-of-mind while wincing throughout the monitoring process.

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Conspiracy of False Hope: A Side of Statins with Your Big Mac

Trying to live a healthy life in a chemical world is tough — so I was delighted to read last week news that the American Journal of Cardiology was taking a stand against the high fat in fast food by countering the saturated fat intake with a side of statins at checkout:

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The Strange Breathlessness of HandsOnlyCPR.org

I saw a strange television advertisement the other day for HandsOnlyCPR.org and I was surprised to learn the American Heart Association is now suggesting you can do CPR — Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation — without the Pulmonary!

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How the Tsimane Beat Heart Disease

Heart disease and strokes have been rare throughout human history.  Why, then, do so many of us today die from heart-related illnesses?  The University of Southern California set out to answer that question and they found an answer in the Tsimane tribe of the Amazon.

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Heart Heal Thyself

In a strange mixing of the beauty of the heart and the science of the mind, doctors at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute made history on June 26, 2009 by injecting stem cells from a damaged human heart back into the heart of the original donor!

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Peggle My Heart

Finding an iPhone game that is fun, playable and everlasting is a
chore I have struggled to overcome.  Sure, there are lots of fun games
for the iPhone, but only Peggle is a game I have played and won
and then re-played again and again.  Once you beat the game, you can call on all your in game character friends to specialize in your continued destruction towards the win.

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Death of a Writing Partner

Jack the Cat died yesterday — Saint Patrick’s Day now provides a whole new depth — and today I am missing the best writing partner I ever had.  Even though Jack had been extremely ill the last three months of his life — his Veterinarian said he was a “Miracle Cat” because his blood numbers were so bad he should have been dead long ago — yet Jack still fought on with us to live because he seemed to know what we could never admit:  We could not live without each other.  Even in the throes of his last days with failing kidneys, anemia and heart failure — Jack always remained the elegant, bi-color, Persian show cat he was born to be 15 years ago.  He never lost his class:

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