My friend Jill Fleming shared a great strategy for making healthy choices. She is a registered dietitian and her strategies have changed how my family eats. By understanding the difference between "grow foods" and "treats," my six-year-old daughters can make a healthy choice. It works!

Your body needs real food to fuel it.

Give it Grow Food!

A glass of red wine, a lovely piece of chocolate, comfy clothes and a moment to say “ahhhh” at the end of the day -- yes, the wine and chocolate stress remedy.

How often do you find yourself eating at your desk? Is dining al desko putting your health at risk?

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” - Jim Rohn

Who are the five people with whom you spend the most time -- at work, at home and socially? Your relationships have an impact on your health according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Fear is common for heart disease survivors, but for women diagnosed with atrial fibrillation the fear can be overwhelming.

It is interesting how quickly we become experts in our own health when we are forced to do so,” remarked Eliz Greene, who survived a heart attack at age 35. “When you are put on a blood thinner like Coumadin® you have to be very proactive to maintain the right level in your system.”

While blood thinning medication allows many women with heart disease to live productive lives, the risk of bleeding creates peril even from small cuts.

When a younger woman is put on a blood thinner the doctor or nurse isn’t likely to tell her, “Guess what, this is probably going to make your period a bit of a challenge. It came as a big surprise to me,” said Eliz Greene who is 42 and currently takes Plavix®. “Talking about the “Icky Period” problem is very important, so women don’t think they are the only ones out there going through it.”

Bruising is a fact of life for women living on blood thinners.

Embarrassment about your bruises doesn’t have to be.

Women living on blood thinners are no strangers to bruising. A tight shoe, a light bump against a chair or an over zealous thigh slap while laughing can cause a nasty-looking mark that can be embarrassing -- to a woman and her family.