Heart Month Tip #19: Get Outside
From Liz Jones, Community Education Coordinator, St. Luke’s McCall “Exercise and happiness go hand in hand,” says Liz Jones, especially when you can get outdoors. All exercise is good for you, but...
View ArticleHeart Month tips: 10 ways quitting tobacco will immediately improve your life
From Rachel Pugmire, St. Luke’s Tobacco Cessation Clinics If you’re like most smokers, you want to quit. But it’s hard, right? Nicotine is incredibly addictive, and many people who’ve quit tobacco say...
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #21: No excuses!
From Dr. Lyndon Box, Cardiologist Too busy to exercise? Too tired to cook? Dr. Lyndon Box encourages you to fit healthy habits into your schedule…and it’s not as hard as you might think. Even though...
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #22: Exercise is medicine
From Pat Lara, Program Director, St. Luke’s Heart Health and Rehabilitation Center “If the benefits of exercise were in a pill, it would be prescribed more than all other medicines combined,” says Pat...
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #23: Cut the fat
From Joann Fractman, heart attack survivor “If you really want to live a healthy life,” Joann Fractman says, “cut the fat, cut the salt, and be active. It’s important for your heart, and for a lot of...
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #24: Eat for wellness
From Dr. Reed Harris, Cardiologist, St. Luke’s Magic Valley The average American diet includes too much of the foods that damage health and not enough of those that protect health. But you can use...
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #25: Listen to your body
From Paige Deitzel, Cardiac Nurse and Valve Center Clinic Coordinator Heart disease symptoms aren’t always intense or obvious, and they can be different for men and women and from person to person....
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #26: Find time for recreation
From Erin Buell, Outreach Coordinator St. Luke’s Center for Community Health, Hailey Erin Buell’s advice for good health is to “Enjoy recreation time with your friends and family, and experience fun,...
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #27: Challenge yourself, mentally and physically
From Bob Wood, heart patient and lifelong athlete Bob Wood has learned how to live with heart disease over the past 10 years. “Challenging myself mentally and physically keeps my mind off it,” he says....
View ArticleHeart Month Tip #28: Dance!
From Andie Woodward, Critical Care Flight Paramedic Andie Woodward’s job as flight paramedic is not for the faint of heart, and neither is her chosen style of performance art. “Fire dancing is...
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