HEART HEALTH

“If the Heart is strong,then life is long”

On this World heart day, don’t lose ur heart beat, but loose all the bad habits that affect your heart’s health!

Here are 6 simple lifestyle changes to keep up your heart health

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🔸Focus on sound sleep
Sleep plays an important role in overall health and well-being. Deep, restorative sleep that is essential for good cardiovascular health.

🔸 Exercise
Regular exercise also improves factors linked to cardiovascular health, resulting in lower blood pressure, healthier cholesterol levels, and better blood sugar regulation.

🔸 Maintain a Healthy weight
Excess weight increases the heart’s work. It also raises blood pressure and blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels and lowers HDL (good) chol levels. It can make diabetes more likely to develop, too.

Waist circumference and body mass index (BMI) are indirect ways to assess your body composition. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is another index of body fat distribution. However, WHR is less accurate than BMI or waist circumference and is no longer recommended.

🔸Balanced Plate
an overall healthy dietary pattern that emphasizes:
– a wide variety of fruits&vegetables
-whole grains
-Healthy sources of protein(mostly plants such as legumes&nuts;fish& seafood;low-fat or nonfat dairy;& if you eat meat&poultry,ensuring it is lean&unprocessed -Switch refined oils with cold pressed oils
-minimally processed foods
-minimized intake of added sugars
-foods prepared with little or no salt
– Use the Healthy Eating Plate as a guide for creating healthy, balanced meals

– Sodium&potassium are 2 interrelated minerals that play major roles in regulating blood pressure and a healthy heart. Eating less salty foods& more potassium-rich foods may significantly lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. 

🔸 Manage Stress
Managing stress is good for your health and well-being. Negative psychological health / mental health is associated with an increased risk of heart disease and stroke. But positive psychological health is associated with a lower risk of heart disease and death.

🔸 Addiction:
Drinking & smoking can lead to high blood pressure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrhythmia and even death from alcohol poisoning. And it can interfere with the brain’s communication pathways, affecting the way the brain works. 

🔸Take home message 👇