Heart diseases are not inevitable as is the common belief. Changing your lifestyle and taking certain precautions helps protect you from them and also prevent you from spending loads of cash on heart treatment. Here are 7 factors which have a major impact on your heart conditions:
Smoking: contrary to popular belief smoking can very well lead to a heart attack. If you are a chain smoker you will do well to change your habits. Yes it is true that one can’t abandon a habit in a single day. However there is no harm in trying. Quit smoking as fast as possible and if you haven’t become hooked onto it yet, do not give in to peer pressure! Resist and try to get your friends to quit smoking too.
Alcohol: like cigarettes alcohol is a major cause of heart attacks across the globe. A single drink now and then is not much cause to worry, however chronic alcoholism is a serious matter. Drinking too much has serious consequences which you will do well to remember. At the same time it is that occasional, harmless drink itself that leads to an addiction which ultimately becomes the root cause of all your problems. So if you can avoid alcohol altogether.
Eat fruits and vegetables: eating healthy goes a long way in securing your heart. The more nutrients your body receives the more chances it has of survival. So eat healthy.
High blood pressure: High blood pressure nearly triples a man’s risk of having a heart attack and more than doubles a woman’s. Increased blood pressure over-exerts the arteries of the heart muscles which lead to reduction I the efficiency of the heart. This can lead to a major heart attack.
Diabetes: diabetes doubles the risk for men. However it doesn’t seem to bother the women much. Diabetes causes platelets to stick together which leads to a number of clots. This increases risk of heart attack.
Exercise: Moderate exercise reduces a man’s heart risk by 23% and a woman’s by twice that amount. Exercise improves cholesterol, staves off diabetes by improving blood sugar and promotes blood vessel growth. This does not mean that you need to work out for hours over-exhausting your body. Just keep your body fit.
Stress: Stressful life events, behavioral disorders and depression nearly triple heart attack risk. Depressed people have four times the chance of having an heart attack then normal ones.
Smoking: contrary to popular belief smoking can very well lead to a heart attack. If you are a chain smoker you will do well to change your habits. Yes it is true that one can’t abandon a habit in a single day. However there is no harm in trying. Quit smoking as fast as possible and if you haven’t become hooked onto it yet, do not give in to peer pressure! Resist and try to get your friends to quit smoking too.
Alcohol: like cigarettes alcohol is a major cause of heart attacks across the globe. A single drink now and then is not much cause to worry, however chronic alcoholism is a serious matter. Drinking too much has serious consequences which you will do well to remember. At the same time it is that occasional, harmless drink itself that leads to an addiction which ultimately becomes the root cause of all your problems. So if you can avoid alcohol altogether.
Eat fruits and vegetables: eating healthy goes a long way in securing your heart. The more nutrients your body receives the more chances it has of survival. So eat healthy.
High blood pressure: High blood pressure nearly triples a man’s risk of having a heart attack and more than doubles a woman’s. Increased blood pressure over-exerts the arteries of the heart muscles which lead to reduction I the efficiency of the heart. This can lead to a major heart attack.
Diabetes: diabetes doubles the risk for men. However it doesn’t seem to bother the women much. Diabetes causes platelets to stick together which leads to a number of clots. This increases risk of heart attack.
Exercise: Moderate exercise reduces a man’s heart risk by 23% and a woman’s by twice that amount. Exercise improves cholesterol, staves off diabetes by improving blood sugar and promotes blood vessel growth. This does not mean that you need to work out for hours over-exhausting your body. Just keep your body fit.
Stress: Stressful life events, behavioral disorders and depression nearly triple heart attack risk. Depressed people have four times the chance of having an heart attack then normal ones.
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