Christopher Lower of Hacking Salt on the Weekly Dish FM 107.1 On Saturday I joined the lovely hosts of The Weekly Dish show on FM 107.1 in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Weekly Dish is a food and foodie-centric show that discusses all things food related in the Twin Cities and beyond. They talk about […]
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5 Self-Care Steps to Promote Heart Health This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BeHeartHealthy#CollectiveBias I am now over two years past my heart transplant. In these past few years, I have learned many things about life post my transplant. In addition to the benefits
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Sharing My Story to Drive LVAD Awareness with Mended Hearts Do you know what an LVAD is? Up until I had one implanted to save my life in 2011, I really didn’t know what one was. It wasn’t on my radar for one thing, and there were barely any resources online for the second. It
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Can I Eat Low Sodium at McDonald’s? When the majority of us are told we have to go low/no sodium, or are put on restrictions we feel that we can never go out to eat again. As you know, I am not one who believes too much in denial as an effective form of developing
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I’ll start right off letting you know that this is NOT a paid ad or endorsement, but it is a rocking product that I found and use to monitor my daily hydration. When you have a heart problem, hydration issues come in two categories. The first is that fluid intakes may be restricted if your
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Why I Went Low Sodium When I was first diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2002, I was told that I had maybe 5 years left to live. It wasn’t an acceptable answer. I was newly married (In 2000), we had just moved into our first home (2001) and we were expecting our first child four months
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What if your heart was too big? What if your heart was too big? I have been called “big-hearted” many times through my life. Up until 2002 I took it as a compliment…a good thing. Then I caught a virus while travelling for business and wound up with an infection that settled into the enzymes
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