Friday, August 22, 2008

Protect your heart: 4 strategies to prevent heart diseases




With heart- healthy lifestyle, you can prevent heart disease symptoms. Here are four techniques to help you protect your heart.

1. Never attempt to smoke!
According to studies, Smoking is one of the most preventable reason of diseases. That's why if you are smoking, STOP IT! and if you don't smoke, never attempt!
For me, "That's the most powerful, preventable risk factor for heart disease."

2. Eat a healthy diet
Limiting intake of fats is very important. There's growing evidence that trans fat may be worse than saturated fat because unlike saturated fat, it both raises your LDL (bad) cholesterol and lowers your HDL (good) cholesterol. My point here is to consistently eat a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products that will benifit your heart.

3. Be Active
Physical activity is definitely good for everyone, but do you know that it can reduce your risk of fatal heart disease? Physical activities prevent heart diseases because it increase blood flow to our heart and result to heart pumping with less effort.

4. Get regualr health screenings
Hypertension and high cholesterol can damage our heart, that's why we need to take healthy screenings to check the stability of our healthy-lifestyle. Regular screening can tell you what your numbers are and whether you need to take action.
a.) Hypertension or High Blood Pressure
b.) Cholesterol levels


2 comments:

Primary Health Care Services said...

Heart is really an important part of body and we can't bear any mistake with it. I got really a good knowledge on Heart and heart disease.

Brate said...

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