"For people who already have heart disease, now you add on top of the heart disease this constriction, which can trigger heart attacks," he said. "Shoveling the snow is actually a strenuous type of exercise. It's a lot of exercise. It's very sudden and it's very demanding on our heart and our muscles. If our muscles, including the heart, are not properly conditioned to do that, then this exercise becomes very, very strenuous and a high level of stress is imposed on the heart. The consequence of that could be occurrence of heart attacks or strokes."
Doctors warn of shoveling-related heart attacks as snowstorm nears D.C.
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Many kids are getting more than seven times the amount of sugar recommended by health experts, said Dr. Federico Asch, president of the American Heart Association (AHA) Greater Washington Region Board of Directors.
Prince George's County requiring healthy kids' meals in restaurants
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