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How to Have a Healthy Heart?
The importance of keeping a healthy heart cannot be denied. Good food habits and a diet high in fiber and low in fats and process food are essential elements of your heart health. Avoiding smoking, doing exercise and managing stress are other good habits that in conjunction with a healthy diet will ensure your heart well-being.
A healthy diet involves eating products rich in minerals, vitamins and protein. In some cases, you can resort to some supplements to increase your intake of minerals or important substances such as omega-3. Nevertheless, be careful when choosing them. It is better that you try to get all you need from natural sources. Make sure you eat fish, fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, soy and olive oil. Those products can help you prevent heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure and related-diseases. However, some people make some mistakes because they are too worried about cholesterol and fat so they avoid eating certain products, for instance nuts or avocados, which have polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats.
If you want to protect your heart, you should not smoke. Smoking has shown to double the risks of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol. Those chances are greater if you are a heavy smoker. This is so because smoking raises the levels of carbon monoxide in the blood, constricts arteries, reduces the levels of good cholesterol (HDL) and increases the levels of bad cholesterol (LDL). In addition to this, if you are not able to manage your daily stress, you will be at a higher risk to suffer from heart disease. Stress itself is a risk factor, but it also aggravates high cholesterol and high blood pressure, which are other risk factors. If you are concerned about your heart health, you will pay attention to this advice. Won’t you?
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