Healthy Ways To Prevent Heart Disease

By Vijayalakshmi

A healthy way of leading life is through keeping your heart clean. We are not talking about your thought process here. But, the food intake and exercises you perform to keep your heart healthy and clean are very important. It is a fact that many strive to lead a healthy lifestyle by sticking to strict diet. But, somehow we fail to suppress our instincts to binge on our favourite 'packaged foods'. These foods are not just harmful but can have severe effect on health in a long run.

Heart is one of the most prominent and sensitive part of a human body. It plays a major role in supplying fresh blood to the entire body that keeps us healthy and normal. Hence, it is very important for us to follow certain healthy routine to keep our heart hale and healthy.

Healthy Ways To Prevent Heart Disease

Here are few simple tips that will help you keep a healthy heart:

Physical health:

Exercise regularly
One of the most basic tip is to exercise regularly. Obese people are more prone to heart related diseases than a normal weighing person. Daily exercise cuts extra fat that is stored in the body, especially around your waist line. This helps in preventing heart related diseases.

Maintaining correct weight
Many of us try to reduce immense weight with a wrong assumption that being overweight leads to heart diseases. But the fact is that, even lean people are prone to suffer from heart related diseases. One should maintain a steady weight and avoid trying to reduce weight unnecessarily.

Avoid being active and passive smoker
Cigarette smoking is not just injurious for your lungs but also heart. Smoking everyday leads to high blood pressure and eventually increasing the risk of heart diseases. Like active smokers, passive smokers are also vulnerable to falling prey to the deadly disease.

Diet factors:

Avoid packaged food
In order to prevent heart disease, one should avoid packaged foods. Anything that comes in a package or processed should be completely avoided. These packaged food not only contains stored fat but also are high on oxidants that are harmful for the body.

Cut on sugar
This could be very difficult to accept by people with sweet tooth. Consuming high level of sugar on everyday basis not only risk the chances of getting affected by diabetics, but also heart diseases. It is better to substitute sugar with either free sugar crystals or brown sugar.

Have dairy products
Daily consumption of dairy products like yogurts and buttermilk is said to be beneficial for the overall health. But, one should make sure that these products should be skimmed and consumed in less quantity.

Mental Health:
The most basic and important factor is to be fit mentally. Mental stress should be avoided completely and instead one should learn to manage stress. Mental health is considered to be the most important aspect that determines the condition of your heart. Stress is also considered to be the single most significant factor behind the cause and prevention of heart diseases.

These are some of the few simple tips to keep your heart healthy and sound.

Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or a qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Story first published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 18:05 [IST]
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