Everyone wants a healthy heart.
Nobody wants to have a problematic heart with heart diseases or cardiovascular disease that shorten a person’s life span.
It is alike a ticking bomb that might explode anytime without any warning signs.
It is time to keep your heart healthy ,as early as possible.
If you want to prevent your heart from developing problems and intend to live a ripe old age to see the birth of your grandchildren, take some time to take care of your heart by adjusting your lifestyle.
Honestly, it took me a few years to learn how to discipline myself in order to adjust my bad sedentary behavior, lack of exercise and unhealthy eating habits.
So, how long did it took me to activate healthy heart project?
I am ashamed to admit that it took me 6 months instead of 3 months which I had expected.
You need to make a commitment to yourself, not anyone elsewhere because it is your heart that is concerned.
Make a promise that you will follow the advice from your doctor in charge, how to keep your heart healthy and strong.
Do not give up easily after trials and errors.
Who says that it was easy to change a unhealthy sedentary lifestyle and bad eating habits?
Determination and confidence that you will keep your promise gives you the purpose to change for a healthy heart.
That concerns your life and your family too.
It doesn’t matter whether you are avoiding heart attack, stroke or hypertension, remember that exercise has to be part of your lifestyle.
Although the word “exercise” had literally turn me off from the start, I was lazy to commit myself to exercise daily since I am used to sitting infront of my laptop 7 days a week.
I am sure that most people including men and women of all ages, are used to sedentary lifestyle which had inhabit into our regime for decades.
Too much convenience electrical appliances and gadgets had induced people to be “lazy” to move around ( stand up, walk to tv, change the channel )
Start light exercise regime daily such as stretching your arms up, above your head after you rise from bed, bend down your neck to your left hand side for 30 seconds after facing the laptop for 1 hour.
A brisk walk to to grocery shop or the park in the morning before sunrise or take your dog for a pee walk every evening are light exercise you can perform daily.
Get some chores done at home if you are retired from your job or you are a full time homemaker.
Household chores are the best activities that you can perform daily to keep your home clean, tidy, letting your family members to feel the comfort of coming home with warmth atmosphere.
Sweeping, moping the floors, cleaning the bathrooms & toilets, vacumming the carpets, dusting the shelves, declutter the messy office desk, cleaning the greasy kitchen help you to burn calories and keep your blood flow pumping well into your heart.
Surf through the Internet to know what type of food and drinks are suitable to maintain a healthy heart.
It is best avoid oily, fatty and high cholesterol food especially fast food and pre-manufactured food.
Implement low fat diet food to avoid clogging your arteries connected to your heart.
When the arteries are clogged with plaque or harden fats, the blood flow to your heart would run slower, sending lack of oxygen to your heart and brain.
I tried to cut down on butter, remove skins and fats from meats, consume more green leafy vegetables and reduce high carbohydrate contained food.
Gradually, I found that foods that emphasize with lots of nutrients, high in fiber and drinking 8 glasses of water per day aids in lowering cholesterol and improve blood pressure.
If you are obese or overweight, try to lose weight now before it is too late.
Losing weight is compulsory to save your heart from contracting cardiovascular diseases.
Don’t be afraid, step on the bathroom scale, check on your weight consistently to make sure that your weight is within the BMI range of your height and weight.
Weight yourself once a week, not everyday, because you will put on too much stress onto yourself.
Losing weight doesn’t indicate that you had to fast or starve yourself the whole day.
Instead, implement jogging, brisk walking, eat lean meats 2-3 times a week, concentrate on more veggies, salads and fruits is a MUST.
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Keeping hearth healthy everyone wants but everyone does not know how to keep heart health 24 hours. s a young person, if you start doing small things every day that keep your body healthy, you have a better chance of living a longer, happier and healthier life.
The things that you do to keep your heart healthy will also make you less likely to develop many other types of diseases, like type 2 diabetes and cancer.” These small steps are not expensive or difficult to take, and taking them can go a long way toward helping you feel your best.
I say that to keep hearth healthy do these things:
Avoid smoking and using tobacco products.
Be physically active every day.
Eat a heart-healthy diet.
Keep a healthy weight.
Keep your blood pressure healthy.
Keep your total cholesterol healthy.
Keep your blood sugar healthy.
Heart disease is also known as cardiovascular disease or “CVD.” CVD is a very serious health condition that keeps the heart or blood vessels from working properly. When our heart and blood vessels are working at their best, blood flows easily and is circulated around the body freely.
If there is a clog in our blood vessels or if our heart is not pumping blood properly, this prevents blood from being delivered to many important parts of our body. Not having blood constantly delivered to the many important parts of our body can cause serious illness or even death.
Although some people are born with certain types of CVD, most people develop CVD as a result of poor lifestyle habits, such as eating unhealthy foods, not getting enough exercise or using tobacco.
It is indeed a nice and informative post. We should reduce the use of oil and ghee as it is co-related with heart issues. Eating high fat content and sparing no time for exercise or walk will make the things tougher for our heart.
So, it is a better idea to stop consuming fats.
Since I reached 45 , I started getting healthy. I would always eat fruits and vegetables. I would exercise and would do household chores such as cleaning the bedroom, cooking and others just so my body can be activated.
I also would start dieting whenever my tummy becomes protruding. I would eat just an apple just for dinner.
Most of all, I learn to relax and avoid stress, because I know stress can make us sick .
So far, I don't have maintenance medicines. Though, sometime my cholesterol would shoot above the normal and I have to do medication for a month and two. After that, it would normalize, so I will try maintaining it. However, sometimes it would go up again, so since I don't do my exercise on weekdays anymore because I am too tired already from work at night, I take medication for a month or two .
Lately, I know I have been eating some fatty foods again. So, I eat more fruits to wash them and plan to exercise 30 minutes every night once I arrive from work.
And you are right - commitment to exercise is a must. he he he