Exercising your way to a healthy heart.
As we all know or may have heard, physical exercise is an ingredient of a longer life. People without any form of physical life or exertion in the form of exercise, are at greater risk of death to heart diseases and other causes as well.
Heart attacks in humans is not specific to a particular gender, it happens irrespective and so we will be taking a look at some ways we can use exercise to get into a healthy state of heart. It is important to now that, physical exercises lowers Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and gives it a good (HDL) High Density lipoprotein boost when needed.
This is no surprise because, studies have shown that, physical exercise has a favorable effect on so many heart health risk factors; and it also helps the heart withstand mental stress.
Maintaining a healthy heart through exercise doesn't call for you to be a pro athlete or world class marathoner, or a die heard exercise buff with a lifetime gym membership. You just have to be able to make out some free time for yourself to stay healthy and fresh.
Below are somethings you can do to stay healthy and live healthy because a happy heart is a healthy heart.
- Eat right.-
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We can never get it right with the health of a man without the mention of the need to have good meals. The number cause of heart diseases are rooted in the wrong kind of food consumed by man. A lot of people eat because they thing being able to afford any kind of food is reason for them to eat whatever they have the way they like.
Health is wealth and of a wealthy man has a poor eating mentality, he will end up in the hospital endlessly trying to cure diseases he invited to his system through his mouth. Take time to analyze and pick out your meal. Eating for the fun of it is the quickest way to land yourself in hospital.
- Taking a siesta.-
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Yes, medically, taking a siesta is good for the heart especially one taken in the afternoon. The longer the siesta, the more heart disease risk is declined.
There are quite a lot of people who thinking taking a nap in the afternoon is for lazy people. It is for those who seek to keep being healthy and strong. Heart diseases are common in regions that do not observe siesta. Siesta has been proven to help reduce the heart rate of hard working individuals because after the short nap, they can come back better and more refreshed than they were minutes ago. So, as a way of being health relevant and conscious, try and catch that nap no matter how short the time is.
- Take a fitness vacation.-
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If you cannot do the daily exercise routine, you can adopt a fitness vacation routine that can help you get your body and heart back into shape. We cannot deny the usefulness of exercise to the human body so, taking some well deserved time out to stay fit is the best thing you can do for yourself.
- Take a walk when you can.-
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A British study carried out in the wake of the millennium showed that, people who took brisk walks are likely to slightly lower their total cholesterol level as against those who don't. When you can and you should consider it mostly, take a walk around your neighborhood so that you let go of some serious cholesterol compositions in your system.
- Consider getting a PET scan.-
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There is need for you to get a Positron Emission Tomography scanning to help you have a broader and clearer look at your heart and the condition it is in.
Not many are in the habit of doing these kinds of routine check because they fear the cost and also worry about the safety involved. Before now, PETs are only for the brain, but today, it is now being used on the heart as well because, the death rate associated with heart disease has increased over the years.
In fact, research shows that PET scan is more safer than Cardiac Catheterization. It is like riding a treadmill but said to be more accurate.
- Consider counseling or group therapy.-
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The idea of counseling or group therapy is to allow the individuals get together to talk about what ails them, how they are faring and what the results have been. You can become part of a group that will help you take matters of the heart seriously. in that group, you may find people living with various ailment and this will help you learn how to stay healthy and also avoid the pitfalls of leaving your health to chance.
- Get yourself involved in some physical exertion.-
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You can take up some work around your home or farm if you have one. The lawns can become your assignment to tend as often as you can. many believe that pain has to be gain, but I don't think that should be the case. if you are not the exercise type, learn to manage your surrounding by taking care of the lawn, the garden behind your house or even the drainage in your street.
- Get the right medication.-
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For men and women, the medication types to take are different.
For men, take aspirin as much as possible because, aspirin is said to reduce the adhesiveness of blood platelets and the propensity of the clotting that will lead to heart attacks.
The saying thus is "an aspirin a day will do the trick. However, before you start this routine, be sure to consult your doctor.
For women, aspirin will not work for you because it works for the men. Women need to get ERT, Estrogen Replacement Therapy. ERT does for women what aspirin does for men and it also delivers an overall protective cover for them.
Issues of the heart are as important as the need to breath. Too many people die daily from heart related diseases because they have not learnt to take good care of their heart. The above routine will help you overcome prevalent heart diseases.
They are little bots of hacks that enables that you live strong and healthy enough to see more prosperous and healthy days.
Remember that, a happy heart equals a healthy heart and a healthy heart equals a happy and fun filled life.
References: High Speed Healing
British Heart Foundation
Wikipedia
With all these steps comes personal responsibility for our own health. Often times, it's so easy to blame the environment, culture, other people, life...etc for being unhealthy. When we finally choose health as our number one priority, we realize we have control of everything and therefore the outcome. Thanks for sharing.
Sometimes we work too hard forgetting that we are only humans and needs to recharge, most people thinks only a balance diet is living healthy, but we mainly forget that sleeping is the best way of recharging and refilling our health and energy.
I try to find time in between my very busy schedule to doze even if for 5 minutes. You have no idea how much more refreshed you will be after taking a nap.
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Health is wealth ... so everyone should do some exercise to spend their day actively.
Yes, we should do the ebst we can to make our hearts stay healthy.
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hey man you've actually call my attention to a whole lots of things especially the exercising part, i am really guilty because i cant remember the last time i did an exercise apart from treaking if the need be. We have the sole responsiblities of taking good care of our health, eating healthy, staying in a clean environment and visiting the hospitals for check-ups often, i mean the body should always be taken good care of because if you dont do all of this things once your life start leaving your body it might be difficult to catch it. Read this post and save your self .
Taking care of ourselves is our responsibility and we must as a matter of fact do the best we can. It is a good thing if we can just create just that tiny bit of time to doing some simple exercises. The body needs some release and we should give it every time we can.
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I have taken notice of that sir , infact i have started some things(skipping) on my own already not exercising is a big trouble to our health i went ahead to read much more about your post elsewhere yesterday.
1 in every 4 deaths in The US is caused by heart disease, totaling the death toll to about 610,000 people each year.
Sometimes, we stress ourselves so much that all o that stress tell on us as we grow old to a certain age range. The heart is ours, afterall, and it would do us a world of good if we took conscious and tentative steps to keep it beating.
Timely and Apt, sir.
The statistics is stunning, scary and alarming but it is true. I once witnessed a healthy looking man slump and die in the most funny way; I initially thought it was a simple faint, but he died. We must all take time to ensure we keep the heart healthy and strong.
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While it would prove difficult to successfully accomplish the listed points, given the times we live in, everyone on a fast lane -- its still very expedient for one to give proper attention to our health, irrespective of the times
We are indeed busy every hour of the day, but i am sure if it means anything to us, we should find sometime to make it work. Too many busy people die pursuing their work.
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Maintaining good healthy habits is key to living long..
Thanks for this health tips @ejemai...
Thanks for reading and do well to stay awesome!
Woow..... will really put one or two of these health tips into practice daily. Truly, Health is wealth like they said.
Thanks for this
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Sir, this is absolutely truth. Exercise is on of the best way to keep our body fit, and this will result to sound health then possibility of long life. Health is wealth.
Health is wealth and we must make it count.
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Health advice post. This is really helpful and useful cos health is wealth
Sleeping and eating without exercise is so risk for the body, even the aged people need exercise but should not be much
Everyone needs some form of exercise. You do not have to be a super athlete of marathoner before you take that leap, do the little you can from where you stand and you will be helping your heart a great deal.
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