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Simple Steps In Preventing Heart Disease
Preventing heart disease is easy and simple. The hard part is
having the heart to do these simple steps daily. But if you value your heart and
your life, you might reconsider your daily habits or way of living and consider
the simple steps below to preventing heart disease.
Step 1 – Eat Less Fat
Everything that has fat tastes great. Fat adds flavor to any food. But you need
to lessen your intake of fat, most especially trans fat, to avoid getting your
blood cholesterol elevated. A clogged artery is caused by hardened cholesterol.
Cutting off hamburgers and fries to your daily diet is already a great way of
preventing heart disease.
Step 2 – Eat Less Sodium
Salt helps in retaining water in the body. But if you have an excess of salt in
your system, you will retain unnecessary bodily fluids, which in turn will
elevate your blood pressure. The heart suffers the most when the blood pressure
is high.
Step 3 – Exercise Regularly
Keep your heart in shape with a daily exercise. Cardio exercise includes brisk
walking, cycling, jogging, and swimming. A fifteen-minute treadmill walks a day
keeps heart disease at bay.
Step 4 – Aim for Ideal Weight
Who says being thin is in? If you are extremely thin, your heart will lose
nutrients and electrolytes it needs to function well. Don't aim for a ramp
model's body; don't starve to death and suffer a heart attack in the process.
Being overweight, however, is not an option either. Obesity is the way to go if
you want to have a blood cholesterol level good enough for ten people. Just aim
for your ideal weight as dictated by your body mass index (BMI). Don't go
outside (below or above) your BMI in preventing heart disease.
Step 5 - Reduce Stress
Stress is a part of life. You, however, must learn how to face and reduce daily
stresses of life. One recommendation is having a 15 minute quite time, daily.
Quite time may be in a form of meditation. Having tea while your feet are
elevated onto an ottoman is also a stress relieving way into preventing heart
disease.
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