Heart Healthy Eating: Counting Carbs
On average, people with diabetes should aim to get about half of their calories from carbohydrates (carbs). Eating around the same number...
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mckenzie212
- Oct 17
- 2 min
Heart Healthy Eating: Satisfying Sugar
Everyone enjoys eating sugary foods and drinks from time to time - and there is no problem including them as an occasional treat as part...
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mckenzie212
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Heart Healthy Eating: Selecting Salt
Similar to fats, our bodies need sodium (salt) to function, but too much sodium can cause high blood pressure or fluid retention. How...
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mckenzie212
- Jul 29
- 1 min
Heart Healthy Eating: Focusing on Fats
Preventing heart disease and stroke in people with diabetes is crucial. Having diabetes or prediabetes significantly increases the risk...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- Jul 2, 2021
- 2 min
5 Wearable Medical Devices that Provide Much-Needed Help for Caregivers
Today, wearable medical devices are one of the simplest, most effective ways providers can offer help for caregivers. If you’re one of...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- Jun 7, 2021
- 2 min
How Cardiac Telemetry Monitoring Is Helping Heart Patients at Home
For healthcare providers, cardiac telemetry monitoring is standard practice. But for patients and caregivers trying to wrap their heads...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- May 3, 2021
- 3 min
Remote Heart Monitor 101: How Can a Free Heart Rate Monitor Help You?
For roughly half of Americans, heart disease is a fact of life — and one that makes understanding heart monitor devices all the more...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- Apr 6, 2021
- 2 min
How to Check Blood Pressure at Home With a Free, Physician-Monitored Device
For the 70% of Americans 65 and older who live with hypertension, the ability to check blood pressure at home is crucial. Hypertension...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
5 Ways Remote Patient Monitoring Provides Help for Caregivers
Help for caregivers is a big topic in healthcare today, and that’s no surprise when you look at the numbers: Nearly 1 in every 5...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
Connected Care & Medicare Patients: 3 Facts to Know During COVID-19
For Medicare patients, connected care is the way forward. Experts have long agreed that real-time, electronic communication between a...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
4 Remote Patient Monitoring Devices You Can Access for Free
For 8 in 10 older Americans who have at least one chronic disease, remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices are essential. But in reality,...
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Dr. Peter Litchfield MD
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
RPM 101: How Remote Patient Monitoring Works
Remote patient monitoring is more common now than ever before. During COVID-19, many of us are finding telehealth services necessary or...
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