1. Drink Your Wine: It may sound counter-intuitive but a bit of drinking can do your body good. Though it’s been in the news, it’s not always remembered that drinking your red wine, say 4-8 ounces per day, is one of the best things you can do for your heart. Drink (within reason) and know that the antioxidants* in red wine can do a heart good!
2. Learn to Breathe: Stress management is one of the most important factors when it comes to maintaining a healthy lifestyle and keeping a heart functioning properly. Therefore learning how to properly deep breath and take the stress out of your life can do wonders for your daily existence and work to keep your overall health in check to avoid problems later on.
3. Enjoy Your Chocolate: For the same reasons as wine, you want to enjoy some chocolate each and every day. However you want to ensure that it’s dark chocolate and that the amount is limited to about an ounce a day. The antioxidants contained within dark chocolate are believed to be good for the heart and can do their part to keep things working properly.
4. Exercise on a Regular Basis: People may shy away from exercise or not make it such a huge priority if they worry about a heart condition for fear of pushing it. This is not the approach to take as moderate and regular exercise is one of the best ways to keep your heart and your whole body healthy and in shape. This fights off even genetic predisposition as your body is trained to handle what is thrown at it as it gets stronger.
5. Laugh It Off: Who knew that laughing could be such good medicine? Laughter is not only good for the soul, but for the heart too as it turns out. Laughter, particularly around mealtime is believed to aid digestion and assist with the potential surge in blood levels that over time may be dangerous for the heart. So by all means, laugh it up and know that as you do so you are making your heart healthier and your body happier.
6. Eat Your Fat: Okay this doesn’t mean to go hit the closest drive through window, but it does mean to focus on the “good fats”. Eating foods that are high in “good fats” such as avocado, olive oil, flaxseed, and nuts is believed to help with certain health conditions such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, and can even fight heart disease in the process. So you are working to increase your heart health and fighting off conditions that can contribute to problems later on—all through delicious foods!
Your heart is your life, so keeping it in good health is essential. These often overlooked tips can help, and make maintaining heart health a little more enjoyable, too!
Mary Ward blogs about various job issues in the health care field, including how to study in
CNA courses online.
Kevin's note: resveratrol is the antioxidant found in red wine. It is available as a supplement for those who don't (or can't) drink alcohol:
Thanks to Mary for this guest post.
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Thank you for the reminder to BREATHE! I once read an article somewhere about taking a deep breath to "release your solar plexus" and I have remembered it ever since, especially when my kids are whining and the noise is escalating, I have a tendency to unconsciously tense up and shorten my breathes. At this point I stop and take a gentle, deep breath and release as I exhale. I focus on my solar plexus, the area of my body between my chest and abdomen, and it relaxes my whole body when I release the stress pent up there. I have to believe this regular practice has an impact on my long-term health as well as supplying me with the ability to be patient with my children!
According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the nation's single leading cause of death for both men and women. At least 58.8 million people in this country suffer from some form of heart disease.
And on the whole, cardiovascular diseases (the combination of heart disease and stroke) kill some 950,000 Americans every year.
Still, there are many misconceptions about heart disease: "The biggest misconception is that heart disease only happens to the elderly," said Elizabeth Schilling, CRNP with the Center for Preventive Cardiology Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
In fact, according to the American Heart Association, almost 150,00 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease each year are under the age of 65. And one out of every 20 people below the age of 40 has heart disease.
So, it is now a wise decision to keep a constant monitoring of your health. Why to take a chance if we have the option. I was in the similar misconception that heart disease are far away waiting for me to get aged. But to my surprise, I was found to be having a calcium deposit in my coronary arteries. I need to have my advance diagnostic scans due reassure whether something really deadly is waiting for me. Though it was some dreadful going on in my life, but I never felt any kind of discomfort in Elitehealth.com advanced diagnostic facility. They were having some of the latest diagnostic equipments and non invasive techniques which made me feel safe.
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