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Heart Disease Risk Reduced - 4 Essential Steps!
By Barb Lulay

There are 4 key lifestyle habits that you simply must do to protect your heart and reduce the risk of heart disease. Some of these you see everyday in the news, yet we fail to do them. The more years that we ignore our health, the harder it is to recover from these ill habits.

Maintain a healthy weight - Maintaining a healthy weight is critical because excess weight especially around our tummy area is extremely detrimental to our heart. The more weight that is focused our our bellies, the harder it is on our organs to do the job they were made to do. It is almost like the organs are choked by the excess fat in the tummy area. There are many things we can do to maintain a healthy weight like watch the amount of carbohydrates, especially simple carbohydrates; eats lots of whole grains and fresh fruits and veggies, and watch how much refined sugar we are eating. Not only refined sugar but also hydrogenated oils, trans fats, and high fructose corn syrup. All of these add up to increase your body fat and decrease your overall health. Too much excess weight can lead to a number of problems, one of which is diabetes. If you have problems with your weight, try to set 1 good habit a week. For example, cut back on sugars or eat a balanced breakfast. Take it slowly so you'll stick with it.
Reduce or at least control stress in our lives - stress has many negative effects on our lives such as increase weight, increase fatigue, poor sleep habits, high blood pressure, moodiness and more. Obviously, we can't eliminate stress; however, we can control so that our our heart risk is reduced. It is proven that when we are happy, our body naturally puts out more endorphins and in turn is 'happier' (chemically speaking also).

It may take some effort if you have been taught to think negatively, but it is worth it if you want to have a healthier heart. Learn to handle the stress instead of trying to keep it in or pretend it'll go away. There are many excellent counselors, even self-hypnotist, yoga, mediation, and positive thinking books/cds (like those of Norman Vincent Peale) that can help you. But just like anything- walking, sports, weight loss,etc, it may take time. Be patient with yourself but always feed your body healthy thoughts. It needs positive encouragement in small doses over long periods of time: just like a good supplement program or weight loss program (slow and steady).

Make sure we use a balanced daily vitamin supplements - DHA and Vitamin D are essential to heart health. DHA is crucial for a healthy heart. You can either eat 3-4 servings of healthy fish like mackerel or salmon or use a quality fish oil supplement. Many people are starting to use supplements just because of the concern of mercury and other contaminants in our water ways. Either way, just make sure it is a pure, natural form of DHA. Vitamin D is somewhat a catch 22 because we don't want skin cancer so we use sunblock, yet the sunblock also blocks out the necessary Vitamin D. This is so much a dilemma that the RDA recently increased the Vitamin D requirement for children. The end result is to use a supplement, natural is recommended because Vitamin D can be difficult to absorb otherwise or we can just wear sunblock on the parts of our skin that we are concerned with skin cancer and aging. Either way, to reduce the risk of heart disease, we need Vitamin D.
Exercise, yes, you knew it was coming. We do need exercise. No matter how you look at the scope of heart health, actually any health plan, exercise must be a part of it. Everything that we do counts so walk a little farther, lift a little more (using your legs, of course), play a little more etc. Weight baring is very important also because it helps build strong bones and speeds up your metabolism. Cardiovascular is necessary because even our heart muscle can use a work out every now and then. Ideally we should do 30-40 minutes daily. We are living in a culture of convenience and these conveniences actually are among the biggest culprits to our heart health: they promote obesity and reduce exercise. However, you have the choice to make dinner or order out; to walk from the far parking lot or hover for a front spot; to flip stations or get up and play ball with your kids.

You get the picture: the choice is yours to have a healthy heart or not. You can reduce the risk of heart disease by doing just 4 simple things. What are you going to do?

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The Risks of Coronary Heart Disease!
By Steve A Johnson

Coronary heart disease is often called coronary artery disease. A coronary artery is blood vessels, which are narrow tubes that carry blood to your heart. Your arteries can get built up with plague blocking the flow of blood and oxygen through them. Plague is a fatty substance made from cholesterol. It can happen in any artery but it is much more serious if it is the coronary artery. Coronary heart disease can lead to very serious health risks such as angina and heart attacks.

If you are overweight or have diabetes you are more at risk of coronary heart disease. High blood pressure and high cholesterol will also put a person more at risk. Men and women can both get coronary heart disease and it can develop as a person gets older. It can also be a heredity disease.

Lowering your blood pressure if you have high blood pressure can reduce your risks of getting coronary heart disease and the same goes for cholesterol levels. Smokers are more at risk as well, nicotine raises blood pressure. After 2 or 3 years of not smoking your risk will be as low as the risk of someone who does not smoke.

Eating a healthy diet will lower the risk of coronary heart disease. Adding foods to your diet that are low in cholesterol and saturated fat will help reduce the risk greatly. Saturated fats are bad because your body turns saturated fats into cholesterol. Getting regular exercise can make your heart stronger. Exercise can also lower blood pressure. Taking an aspirin everyday helps prevent heart disease but there are risks of taking it every day. Ask your doctor if it is the right treatment for you.

Taking a vitamin supplement can lower a person's risk of having a heart attack. Vitamin E is really good for lowering the risk. Alternative Health Supplements offers a product called Super Cardio Program; it combines two important steps for better cardiovascular health. The heart support has Coenzyme Q10, hawthorne extract, citrus bioflavonoid, and vitamin E to support the health of your heart. The artery support has folic acid, cayenne pepper, vitamins B1, B6, B12, and magnesium to maintain healthy blood flow.

Symptoms of coronary heart disease are most of the time very noticeable, but sometimes you can have the disease and not even know it. Chest pain or discomfort is the most common and noticeable of all the symptoms. The pain happens because there is not enough blood and oxygen getting to the heart. The pain will vary from person to person.

Symptoms may be very noticeable, but sometimes you can have the disease and not have any symptoms. There are two types of chest pain atypical and typical. Atypical is often sharp pain and will come and go. You will feel it in the left chest, abdomen, back, and arm. It is more common in women. Typical chest pain feels heavy or like someone is squeezing you. You feel it under the chest bone and the pain occurs with activity or emotion. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, heart attack, and fatigue with activity or feeling over exerted.

Treatment depends on your symptoms and how severe they are. Treatment can include one or more of the following: medicine, angioplasty, and a stent. By-pass surgery could be required if heart attack was the symptom.

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