Everyday Heart Health: From Checkups to Cardiac Rehabilitation

Even if you don’t have a rare cardiovascular condition or need specialized cardiac care, heart health impacts almost every aspect of your life. Join us for Heart Health on Living Healthy Together, as we sit down with experts in cardiovascular research, heart rehabilitation and prevention, exercise and nutrition related to cardiac health. As we celebrate Heart Month 2026, you’ll learn: How our deepening understanding of cardiac risk factors is improving prevention, early detection and heart care for women. Why “knowing your numbers” is a critical piece of heart health for everyone – and how you can have a conversation with your own primary care provider about getting informed and understanding your own heart health and risk factors.  How Cardiac Rehabilitation centers across UVM Health improve heart health and quality of life for those with heart disease, and whether cardiac rehab is right for you. How the Mediterranean Diet can help improve your heart health, and how you can easily incorporate aspects of it into your own eating routine. Why exercise is critical for heart health – and how you can beat the winter exercise slump and make small changes to get (and stay) more active all year round. How advocates for heart health and safety are working to improve healthy food options and cardiac safety protocols for young people in Vermont. How vaping among young people may be leading to a rise in smoking –what that could mean for the heart health of younger generations in the decades to come, and how heart health experts and advocates hope to reverse the trend.