Dr. Ian Weisberg, MD.

While we’ve already shared a few activities that hold numerous benefits for the heart, here’s a follow up blog on a few more challenging, fun, and quite effective exercises. Get your gear ready, and steady your nerves because these exercises will pump up your heart like nobody’s business. Image source: chicagonow.com Boxing The huge misconception about boxing is that it only involves punching, thus only tones the upper body. The truth is people who go to boxing gyms will make use of their legs so much more than they originally thought. Using legs in an aerobic exercise such as boxing burns tons of calories and keeps the blood pumping for well over an hour. Since the heart is a muscle, having it pump faster for a period of time strengthens it. And the blood pumping also does well for the arteries and veins, as well as the liver. Image source: kutv.com HIIT High intensity interval training, or HIIT for short, is not for the faint of heart (pun intend-ed). ...

Nutrition plays the biggest part in keeping the cardiovascular system healthy. What one eats has a great, direct impact on heart health. While it may be good to enjoy fried and high-sodium food or sugar-rich drinks once in a blue moon, for the most part, a well-balanced diet is always recommended. Image source: pixabay.com On that note, below are some of the foods that will have the heart at its healthiest: Fish Fish is generally good for the heart. The best ones are salmon and mackerel since they are rich in omega-3 fatty acids that promote healthy circulation in and around the heart. Fish are also a much healthier source of protein compared to beef or pork. A regular diet of fish (steamed rather than fried) is especially good for the heart. Oats Oats have always been good for the heart. With beta-glucan, a soluble fiber, oats have been proven to decrease harmful levels of fat in the blood. This functioning, in turn, low-ers the chances of heart diseas...

Healthcare trends in recent decades have been largely driven by innovations and disrup-tions in digital technology. And while health professionals, manufacturers, and physicians alike are always wary of readily adopting advancements so as not to risk patient health, there’s no denying that the future of health care is tied up with the advent of new tech-nologies. Come 2019, there would be more widespread deployment of the Internet of Medical Things of IoMT, allowing for interconnected medical devices like wearables to link to the internet and provide key patient health information to specialists for processes such as ECG and EKG monitoring, blood pressure readings, and heart rate testing for cardiolo-gists. Before they grew by leaps and bounds this year, IoT and IoMT systems had already been adopted in almost 60 percent of healthcare operations in 2017. Image source: blog-idcuk.com AI or artificial intelligence will likewise figure more actively in healthcare this yea...