Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan understands the importance of the most vital organ in our body only too well. When she was in her 20s and embarking on her career in medicine, her mother died from a heart attack at only 42. It came out of nowhere, as she had no known history of heart disease. “I always knew I wanted to be a doctor,” she says, “but that day inspired me to specialise in the heart.”
Some of us worry about holiday overindulgence affecting our expanding waistlines. Holiday weight gain, and how to prevent and reverse it, gets a lot of press. But there’s another, even more serious health concern you may not know about but that should be on your radar: Holiday Heart.