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Colgate Celebrates Heart Month
Colgate women’s network is raising funds for the American Heart Association by promoting a “Jeans Day” Today I have the honor of presenting to the Colgate Women’s Network as part of the Park Avenue “Live Better” program at the Colgate Palmolive headquarters in New York City.  Colgate is celebrating women’s heart health and raising money for the American Heart Association.  We’ll be rocking lunch time with the Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart program.  It is exciting to see the corporate wellness programs including an excellent array of healthy choices in the caf...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - February 11, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Events & Media Heart Health Employee Wellness Program heart month women's network program Source Type: blogs

Tips To Celebrate Heart Month
Hearts should remind you to take care of YOUR heart! As Valentine’s Day approaches, the color red and heart shapes are everywhere. February isn’t just about candy and flowers.  It is also Heart Month and a time to focus on Women and Heart Disease. As busy women, it is easy to focus on taking care of everyone else and forget to do what we need to do for ourselves.  As we lead up to and during the month of February, when you see the color red or a heart take a moment to do something good for yourself and your health. Here are some tips: Take a breath. Deep breathing is an excellent way to reduce stress. Plus,...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - January 14, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health Go Red for Women heart month Wear Red Day Women and Heart Disease Advocacy Source Type: blogs

NAWBO Miami hosts Women’s Stress Management Program
Join Eliz and the fabulous women of the Miami Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners for a fun and energizing program: Juggling Stress: A busy woman’s guide to sanity and health Register for the evening at NAWBOMiami.org   Motivational Women’s Wellness Speaker Eliz Greene works with busy people to improve heart health, so they can live longer, feel better, and stress less. She is a heart attack survivor and the author of the Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart as well as 3 other books on wellness. She writes one of the top 50 health and wellness blogs and is a sought-after women’s ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - January 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Events & Media Heart Health Stress Less Juggling Stress stress management Source Type: blogs

10 Holiday Tips For Work, Home, And Health
Are You Stressed Yet? December is a month played in fast forward. No matter which holidays you celebrate (or don’t) the month is usually packed with work and home obligations which can leave you feeling strained, stressed, and anything but healthy.  Use these tips to create more space for real connection, work, and yourself this year. Start With The Calendar: Right now, mark every day left in December with an all-day appointment called “plans”.  From now on, when someone asks if you can attend something, you can honestly say, “I already have plans.”  Choose to do only the things which support your priorities t...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - December 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health Stress Less healthy holiday tips Source Type: blogs

Childhood Obesity: Heart And Liver Disease In Fast Forward
  Nearly ten percent of American children have chronic liver disease caused by inappropriate storage of fat in the liver.  Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) speeds the development of heart disease by raising blood pressure.  NAFLD is often undetected until heart and liver damage has already begun.  Understanding the connection between childhood obesity and the increased risk of heart and liver disease is crucial in preventing early onset and death. Read Eliz’s article on Answers.com Motivational Women’s Wellness Speaker Eliz Greene works with busy people to improve heart health, so they can live long...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - November 25, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health childhood obesity Source Type: blogs

11 “Real” Tips for a Heart Healthy Thanksgiving
Okay, so let’s get real about Thanksgiving and trying to maintain your heart healthy habits.  Thanksgiving is a celebration built around food.  Which, in itself, isn’t a problem, but that celebration has morphed into a non-stop parade of overindulgence. That is a problem. A turkey dinner doesn’t have to derail your healthy eating habits.  Spending time with family doesn’t have to be stressful.  But, often both are true.  This year, instead of tips about substituting chicken broth for butter in the mashed potatoes, let’s get real about how to navigate Thanksgiving with your self respect, sanity, and belt in t...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - November 19, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health Stress Less eating right during holidays healthy holiday tips stress management during holidays Source Type: blogs

The Gift Of Silence
Silence is more than golden.  It is heart healthy! Recently my daughter had minor foot surgery.  Even though it was a minor procedure, she was rather anxious.  Which, of course, is understandable. Something interesting happened in the waiting room. We arrived early to fill out the paperwork, and ended up with an extra 15 minutes to fill.  My daughter brought a book to read, and we were also chatting.  In the waiting room, however, was a television, tuned to a 24-hour news channel.  Several years ago our whole family stopped watching television news.  The sensationalized version of daily events creates too much stres...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - October 23, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health Stress Less health benefits of silence stress management Well At Work Source Type: blogs

Match Meals To Activity
How Much Did You Move Today? Sally Bee, who provides many of our favorite Heart Healthy recipes, had a great post today about matching your portion size to your activity level.  Great point! The more you move, the more fuel your body needs.  The less you move, the more extra calories will turn to fat. Check out what Sally Bee has to say about Meal Matching and check out this delicious recipe for Simple Delicious Salmon Parcels: Ingredients 1 salmon fillet 10 cherry tomatoes 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp honey 1 tsp dried oregano 10 french green beans – ends removed Black Pepper Method Take a lar...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - September 30, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health eat better Eat Fish Heart healthy recipe nutrition Sally Bee Source Type: blogs

Move In Your Seat: Healthy Meeting Tips at MANA Conference
This morning’s Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists started off with a line dance and fun. Eliz presented “Move Your Bootie” and shared strategies to move in your seat during meetings to keep the blood flowing and increase attention.  Participants in the 7 am session ended with a line dance and smiles. Later in the day Eliz will share stress management tips in “Juggling Stress“. Were you in the audience? Share a Woo Hoo or “I will because…” statement in a comment below. Thanks! Motivational Women’s Wellness Speaker Eliz Greene works with busy people to improve heart ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - September 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Events & Media Juggling Stress Move Your Bootie Programs for nurses Source Type: blogs

Not Done Yet: Women’s Heart Health Mission
A ride in an ambulance, and back in time… A few months ago I had a health scare.  At a meeting of professional speakers in Chicago, my heart rate suddenly skyrocketed and I couldn’t get it under control.  As a heart attack survivor with a surgically repaired heart, I know an arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm, could develop over time, but the fast thumping in my chest was scary. The dizziness and discomfort became so intense, we called 911. (To be honest, I tried very hard to avoid the excitement of calling the ambulance, but I was worried I would pass out in my friend’s car on the way to the hospital.) I have no...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - September 18, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health American Heart Association Go Red Luncheon Patient's Perspective Women and Heart Disease Women and Heart Disease Advocacy women's wellness Source Type: blogs

Congratulations Oshkosh Well City USA
Employers and Community Leaders Join Together for Wellness Initiative Last night the City of Oshkosh, Wisconsin earned the Well City USA designation from the Wellness Council Of America, WELCOA.  I was honored to be part of the celebration and present a stress management keynote at the event.  Oshkosh is the 13th state nationwide to receive this coveted designation. Cities must meet wellness criteria in a minimum of 20 employers and 20% of the workforce.  Oshkosh qualified for the Silver Level designation by engaging more than 30% of their workforce. More than 38,000 workers in Oshkosh have benefited from the wellness i...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - August 21, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Events & Media employee wellness stress management Well At Work Well City USA Source Type: blogs

Healthy Meeting Tips
Get Up! Tips for a healthy and productive meeting, conference, or convention Recently, I had the honor of presenting a session at the National Speakers Association Convention about healthy meeting strategies.  Here is the companion article for the session: A multiple day conference can undo the good work of healthy habits.  Four hours of sitting increases triglyceride levels, raises blood pressure, deters blood flow, and slows thinking. Taking steps to protect your health as a participant is important.  As a presenter, using movement within the program can support audience engagement, learning, and health. Event organiz...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - July 23, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Events & Media Heart Health Healthy Meeting Tips National Speakers Association Source Type: blogs

Work Life Balance Takes Work
She Makes It Look So Easy Ever look at someone else and think, “She’s got it all together. Must be nice,” and feel like your work life balance doesn’t measure up? We all do it. Recently I was asked to write a Work Life Balance article for Speaker Magazine (a publication from the National Speakers Association).  While honored, I struggled a bit with writing it.  So many articles on the topic of balance or wellness make it seem simple… Just do a few things on a list and BINGO you achieve balance.  That isn’t my experience, and I don’t think I’m alone. Which is why my article...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - July 16, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Events & Media Heart Health Stress Less magazine article National Speakers Association Passion for Life work life balance Source Type: blogs

Your Environment Matters
Who Surrounds You? There is a familiar quotation from the legendary author and speaker Jim Rohn, had a famous saying: You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Think about it.  Who do you spend most of your time with – day in and day out?  Are those people supportive of your goals?  My good friend Thom Singer wrote an excellent post today about the importance of connecting with people to lift you up. He writes: Mr. Rohn was right.  If you are engulfed by self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and negativity, it can be a result of the input you are receiving from others.  The reverse is true too...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - June 18, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health active lifestyle fitness tips Positive health benefits of female friendship stress management weight loss women's fitness strategies Source Type: blogs

The Real Breakfast of Champions
Start The Day The Right Way! The American Heart Association shared this excellent breakfast parfait recipe (see below).  Starting the day with a delicious and nutritious breakfast can make your day happier and healthier.   A good breakfast combines protein, complex carbohydrates, and a little healthy fat keeps hunger at bay and fuels your body for the morning.  Skipping breakfast, as I mention in this article on Answers.com, can increase your risk of heart disease.  In addition, consistent timing of meals is important in maintaining a healthy metabolism. Going too long without food puts stress on the body and creates ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - June 16, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health healthy diet strategies heart healthy diet tips nutrition Source Type: blogs