Where Your Treasure Is, There Your Heart Will Be Also A recent web search for the greatest cost by disease/branch of medicine for US healthcare revealed that heart disease is by far and away the number one expense. According to Web M.D., “more than one in three Americans have heart disease.” The website reports that […]
Hanging In There with Chronic Heart Disease Our hearts do lots of pumping throughout our lives, roughly 100,000 beats a day, and possibly 2.8 billion beats or more in a lifetime. Given the effects of cheeseburgers and fries, the heart does a lot of hard work. Confession – of pride and unwillingness to bug my
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Heart Problems from Within and Without – And Faith The CDC has reported an increase in the diagnosis of anxiety and depression during what we might call the “COVID era.” The relationship between anxiety, depression, or other mental health disorders and cardiac problems has not been well studied, nor is it completely understood. Hormones stimulated
Bad Genes, Bad Behavior,the 10 Commandments,and Healing from the Holy Spirit Grandma Graf died fairly young from a heart attack. Family members were concerned that her heart ailment may have been passed on to others through the gene pool. But, so far, Mom’s doing well, and the grandkids are all “still ticking.” The Pharisees had
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Congenital Heart Diseaseand Being Born from Above Someone once asked Dr. Francis Collins, current science advisor to the President and former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Human Genome Project, “What will happen to religion if they find the ‘death gene ’ that may one day enable people to live forever?”
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Listening to Heartbeats and Thy Word Because of our daughter Jennifer’s acute and chronic health problems related to cerebral palsy, it was incumbent upon us to learn a few things about her physiology and monitor her health as much as we could. So, unlike most families, we had a stethoscope at home. And every time
A Healthy Heart – The Mind of Christ – Maximal Exercise and Prayer Because cardiac muscle is different from skeletal muscle, heart muscle can’t be strengthened. Yet the heart function can be improved through exercise by improving the overall health of the cardiovascular system. For example, vigorous exercise keeps blood vessels flexible while simultaneously preventing
A Compassionate Doctor After 25 years of appointments, my general practitioner and I know a fair amount about each other. In fact, in many ways he knows more about me than anyone else except my wife. Most people understand that of all people, we should not withhold information from our doctors, but rather we should
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An Empathetic Doctor The word “heart” occurs in Scripture hundreds of times, in some translations as many as 652. The first use of the word actually refers to God’s “heart.” Soon after the rejection of God as the One from Whom Adam and Eve would receive their image and His “breath of life” into their
The Sick Need a Physician and Medicine When the Pharisees came to Levi’s party and wondered why Jesus was eating with tax collectors, He replied, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.…” (Matthew 9:12) The setting is a great banquet Matthew has thrown in Jesus’ honor and a celebration of
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