Heart Disease

 

Heart Disease kills more than 610,000 Americans each year. That is way too high of number and people need to begin to worry about their health earlier rather than later. There are some factors of heart disease that you can't lower, those include family history and old age. If heart disease runs in your family then their is a risk that you can get it too. Also old age has a big affect, as you get older you are more likely to get heart disease.

 

The are several ways you can reduce your risk of getting heart disease, but these changes need to be changed now rather than later on in life.

 

1. Eating Healthy/ Dieting

     

      - Eating healthy isn't the easiest thing to do, but it is necessary when worrying about your health. Some good foods include fruits, vegetables, grains, beans and fish. You should always limit Saturated fat and Trans fat. Some of those include fast food, package snacks, fried food and red meat. Eating healthy does not necessarily mean to cut back, it means to eat healthy foods and follow the proper guidelines of how much to eat. You can do this by looking at the MyPlate diagram. http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ 

 

2. Lowing Cholesterol

 

     -  Cholesterol is one of the major reasons people get heart disease. People often consume foods with lots of cholesterol causing a thick plaque to build up in the arteries making them not flexible. When they continue to build up the arteries often get clogged and eventually can cause a heart attack or stroke.

 

3. No Smoking

 

    - Smoking is one of the major causes for heart disease. One in five people that get heart disease can relate it right by to smoking. Each cigarette smoked makes you at a higher risk for getting heart disease. Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen your heart receives, raises your blood pressure and can cause blood clots.

 

4. Exercise

 

    - Exercise is super important when talking about heart health. Since your heart is a muscle it needs to be exercised just like all the other muscles in your body. When it is exercised it is able to function more efficiently by pumping more blood at a faster rate. 30 to 60 minutes of exercise a day is what is healthy for humans, and that can be anything that gets your heart rate up.