Blood Sugar Self-Quiz for Professional Women
Blood sugar health is a key part of a healthy lifestyle and professional women who manage their blood sugar properly reduce their risk of heart disease. Test how well you manage your blood sugar.
Answer Yes or No by each question:
1) ___I know what simple sugars in foods are (otherwise known as t...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
Inflammation—Not Just What You Thought
Inflammation. Things that become inflamed: You, when you are angry; a facial blemish picked and poked; your stomach when you get upset, forget to eat or eat spicy foods; your knee if you fall and hurt it. These things that we can see remind us of the need to pay attention to them. They are warning s...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
Exercise for Professional Women
We don’t officially tell our toddlers to exercise. It is not like I sat my 19-month-old down and told him to run around the house like a maniac. We never explain to him that it is good for his heart, keeps his blood pressure down and maintains his weight. We never give him the public service announc...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
5-Question Self-Quiz: Cholesterol and Professional Women
Super Basic Heart Health Quiz for Professional Women
Professional women are especially in need of having their awareness raised on the importance of caring for their hearts, as heart disease is the number one cause of dealth to women, and professional women balance unique work-life issues and deal ...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
The Risk of Heart Disease in Professional Women
Heart disease is the number one killer of women, and with the pressures that professional women face, heart disease is an especially important issue to that subgroup in particular. To some of you this may come as a shock, but I assure you, this is nothing new. In fact, over the past decades while t...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
The Four Magic Numbers for Professional Women's Heart Health
Professional women are busy. We have lists upon lists upon lists. I have a Palm Pilot, cross referenced with my Blackberry and detailed in my Filofax (yes, very old school) for just about every task that needs to be done. Each meeting has an alarm synchronized to my watch, each deadline is highlight...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
Blood Sugar Facts for Professional Women
When did diet soda become a healthy food? I think it was sometime in between the commercials of skinny women drinking the pink cans from the 70s and the fabulous super-models slurping down a silver can in the middle of tumbleweeds in the dry west. So, a little diet soda in the middle of a cubicle ca...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
Managing Diet on a Busy Schedule
We have all had that moment. You know the one, when you realize that your stomach is growling. You know that you fed the kids and packed their lunches, sent in the permission slip for school, repacked the store bought cupcakes to look more "homemade" for the bake sale, made it to the conference call...
Author: Suzanne Steinbaum
Working Mother Magazine Salutes the 2008 100 Best Companies
In this sluggish economy, many employers are controlling costs by cutting back on family-friendly policies—but not the 2008 Working Mother 100 Best Companies. From flextime and telecommuting to backup child care and parental leave, this year’s 100 Best are expanding the concept of family-friendly b...
Author: Working Mother Magazine