Save Your Heart

Ways to Save Your Heart

Nuts Looking for a healthy snack with a bit of substance? Nuts are are great way to snack and boost your immune system while doing so. Respiratory infection are abundant in the colder months and nuts will definitely help your body fight them. Vitamin E, which has attributes that fight against those infection, is found in nuts like sunflower seeds and almonds. Snacking on these or adding them to salads or veggie dishes is an excellent way take advantage of their benefits.

Smoking, and exposure to secondhand smoke, increases one's risk significantly for developing heart disease. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,800 chemicals, many of which can damage the heart and blood vessels, causing narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis), which leads to heart attack.

The team discovered a dose-dependent link between fruit and vegetable intake and heart death. That is, the higher the intake, the lower the risk for heart attack. Specifically, for every serving above two servings per day, the risk of dying from a heart attack dropped by four percent. People who averaged eight or more servings per day reduced their risk by 22 percent.

Deprivation of sleep may results in physical stress as well as weakening of your immune system and thus increases its inability to fight off infections. Based on research, it has shown those who slept five hours or less a night had a 39 percent greater risk of developing heart disease. So if you have not been sleeping enough for any reasons, try taking a nap for 30 minutes at least three times a week as it will reduce the fatality rate for heart disease by more than a third, as advised by my friend, who is a doctor by profession.

While on the low salt diet, but not the normal salt diet, the subjects showed improvements in endothelial function. This diet also led to small reductions in systolic (the top number) blood pressure, though no change in the diastolic (that's the bottom one) number.

Being health conscious is more important now than ever before. When you neglect your body by eating high fat foods and not exercising you run the risk of a whole host of health issues, including obesity and heart disease. Many people don't pay any attention to what they eat until their doctor tells them their cholesterol level is too high. In most cases, if it's only moderately high the physician will suggest one of the diets for high cholesterol. If it's alarmingly high, medication may also be prescribed to lower it quickly.

H2o is what our body needs. The minimal requirement for water is eight glasses in each day. This really is in addition to juice intakes. Don't substitute h2o with sodas and alcoholic beverages.Do not eat foods high in carbohydrates like rice, potatoes, bread and pasta. Throughout breakfast, stay away from the intake of espresso mainly because this contains caffeine which isn't very good to our heart.