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How to Keep a Healthy Heart

Drug abuse and over eating are just 2 reasons why the average age of heart attack victims has gone down in recent years. Here I have listed several ways to keep your heart healthy and extend your life expectancy.

Author: Ellie Schneider

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Doing what you can now will reduce the chances of having a heart attack and increase your life which should be every ones goal.

Food:
To avoid a heart attack it is important to avoid eating foods that are bad for you on a regular basis. Fried foods, fatty foods and sweets are ok to eat occasionally but not ever day. Fried foods and fatty foods harden the arteries and help form the blockage that causes heart attacks in most people. Try eating healthy foods like fish, skinless chicken and lots of fruits and vegetables. These foods provide needed nutrients to your body to help keep you in good physical health.

Working Out:
More and more people are working longer hours and have less time to stop to eat a healthy meal and wind up eating fast food in their cars while running from one appointment to another. This is why it is more important then ever before that you make sure to get a good heart pumping workout for at least 3 hours every week. One option is to join a gym and use the life cycle, step class or the treadmill, another good idea is to get a treadmill for your home, spend 20 min a day climbing up and down the stairs in your home, or just go for a walk around your neighborhood. Wherever you choose to workout make sure you push yourself hard enough that you break into a good sweat and bring your pulse rate up, but if you find you can not hold a conversation because you are breathing too heard then you are pushing yourself too hard and can risk injury. Whatever you do it is important for your health that you stick with it and not quit after a few weeks.

Screwing up the Works:
Smoking, drinking and getting high, does nothing good for the body. Medical scientists are studying what if any are the benefits of Marijuana, but one thing they have already agreed on is that smoking Marijuana is worse for you because of the smoke then any benefits that the drug may offer. Smoking puts a chemical into the body that makes blood clotting more common then in someone who does not smoke, add that to poor eating habits and you have an environment that is good for a heart attack. Then take into account that some drugs like cocaine make your heart race for long periods of time. This weakens and shortens the life span of your heart and after long term use can leave you stuck in bed hooked up to machines or stuck in a wheelchair. Drinking Alcohol may be the worst of them all it not only raises the chance of heart disease it hardens your arteries and kills your liver and even your kidneys.

If you want to live long enough to enjoy your golden years you have to start doing something about it now. Many people will say that 60 yeas ago people ate much worse then we do now, but my reply would be that those people also did more physical labor then we do today.

About Author

After heaving a heart attack at the age of 35 Ellie Schneider left her high stress job to play Blackjack in Online Casinos and casinos around the world.

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How to Keep a Healthy Heart