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While cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally, researchers published in The New England Journal of Medicine that 30% of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease are preventable with a Mediterranean influenced diet. By limiting red and...

Happy New Year’s from Valencia Gardens Health Center! This month, we welcomed the Nightingale Club to our facility and had our annual Christmas party at Mt Baldy Lodge, celebrating with food and building marshmallow towers. As we look forward to the future, we look...

Yoga is known for its great spiritual and emotional health benefits, but yoga also has many physical benefits. Yoga: an ancient art of learning to form your body, mind, and spirit into one. Life Hack says yoga “is designed to help achieve a more positive outlook on...

Think you’re going to stay a week in the hospital after a joint replacement? Those days are gone. Instead, they have been replaced with advancements in care that have transformed the experience both in the hospital and at home. With a new focus on “rapid recovery...

Rebecca had experienced tingling in her hand before. This time, the tingling was accompanied by a rather large lump on the top of her wrist. As the pain increased, she decided it was time to see a doctor. The lump on her wrist was diagnosed as a ganglion cyst. “It’s a...

Josh loved to play soccer. While normally a quiet nine-year-old, his competitive nature came out in full force when he hit the field. During a regular season game, he collided with an opposing player on the field. Despite the concerns of his coach, he insisted on...

Those who have experienced the loss of a loved one know that along with the grief comes the need to handle the business side of death.  As painful as it may be, closing accounts attached to your loved one is a necessary step to avoid unnecessary complications in the...

Some conversations are harder than others. Discussing the need to plan for long term care with loved ones isn’t exactly easy and can be quite awkward, but Maria Shriver and some of America’s most beloved and recognizable faces — Rob Lowe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Zach...

Heart disease is the number one killer in America. But 75 percent of Americans are not worried about dying from it. Most of us are not familiar with the best daily habits we should be doing to protect our heart, nor are we able to recognize the warning signs of a...

Carpets have been around for thousands of years. The oldest known carpet, believed to be over 2000 years old, was found in the 1940s in a Scythian tomb in southern Siberia. While the carpet in most of our homes is not quite that old, it sometimes looks that way. More...