Tips for Keeping Your Heart Healthy

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Tips for Keeping Your Heart Healthy

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Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States,

by following a few tips for healthy lifestyle you can reduce your

chances of heart disease.

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Tips for Keeping Your Heart Healthy

Copyright © 2009 Kielty

North Carolina Insurance

http://www.ncinsuranceplan.com

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.

The most important way that you can prevent a heart attack is to

change your lifestyle. The three most important areas to change

are to improve your nutrition, increase your exercise and stop

smoking. Improvements in these three areas can reduce your

chances of a heart attack and increase your chance is a long and

healthy life

Your goal should be to burn as many calories as you take in each

day. Start by learning how many calories you are currently taking

in by keeping a notebook. Log everything you eat and then

calculate the calories at the end of each day. Then, you will

need to find out what your calorie intake should be for your

height and age.

Improve Your Nutrition

Improving your diet is not just about cutting back on calories,

but it's about choosing the best foods. Foods that can either be

nutrient rich or nutrient poor. Nutrient rich foods include

fruits and vegetables and whole grains foods. Fruits and

vegetables have lots of vitamins and minerals as well as fiber

and whole grain foods have a high amount of fiber. Nutrient poor

foods are those that are high in calories, but low in nutrients.

These include non-diet sodas, candy and other sweets. For a heart

healthy diet, you should also limit the amount of high

cholesterol foods each day, try to stay under 300 mg per day.

Limit the amount of snack foods you have, and also try to cut

back on your daily salt intake.

Increase Exercise

25% of Americans lead sedentary lifestyles, causing them to be

overweight. Increasing exercise is an important factor to

preventing heart disease and it can also lower blood pressure and

cholesterol. Most people should be exercising 30 minutes, 5 days

per week. That time can even be broken down into 10 minute

exercise periods throughout the day.

Start out with a stretching routine, and then a warm-up before

you begin your exercise regime. This can prevent muscle injury

and strain. Nothing will derail a new exercise program like sore

muscles or an injury. After the warm up, they you will move into

the calorie burning portion of your exercise. This should be a

moderate level of exertion. You should not be going so hard that

you cannot still talk during the exercise. After the calorie

burning portion, then you will move into a " cool down " period

while your heart rate returns to normal.

Stop Smoking

Smoking kills about 440,000 people in the US every year. The more

cigarettes, a person smokes, the greater their chances for

getting heart disease. Women who smoke and take birth control

pills, greatly increase their chances of a heart attack. Smoking

increases your chance for heart disease, because it decreases the

amount of oxygen that gets to the heart, and increases blood

clotting and blood pressure.

If you want to keep your heart healthy, there are our several

important steps you can take. The first is to choose healthy,

nutrient rich foods in your diet. The second is to increase your

physical activity and the third is to stop smoking. If you

incorporate all of these changes into your life.

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