How to prevent heart disease at any age

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How to prevent heart disease at any age

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• How to prevent heart disease is a question all of
  us need an answer to and equally true that most
  of us have at least a rough idea about it.
• Although the question sounds common for all of us
  but the answer is not as generic as it may seem.
• Just like each one of us has different type of
  body, immunity, and metabolism etc., similarly
  our heart ailments are also of different types.
• Every individual has to take his or her own
  measures to prevent heart diseases depending on
  his unique health background, symptoms, causes,
  and heart condition.

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How to Prevent Heart Disease? Wake up before it
is late!

• How to prevent heart disease is question that
  every individual should ask himself/herself
  before it is wee bit too late or when the problem
  has gone beyond the stage where simple medication
  can solve it.
• It is better to wake up early and to avoid
  treatment than undergo it. In most cases people
  wake up when it is an emergency or a near
  emergency situation and thats when they are
  frantically looking for the best cardiologist in
  Hyderabad or wherever that one may be residing.

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To Prevent Heart Disease, Heres Your Safest Bet

• If you are a person who goes for a general yearly
  check-up without a miss it is a wise decision
  because in such cases problems of all kinds
  including those of heart are caught at an early
  stage which can be easily rectified with simple
  oral medicinal course or sometimes even basic
  lifestyle changes.
• But for those who do not go for yearly medical
  check-ups do not come to know of the heart
  disease growing inside them until it is late and
  a simple course of medicine or lifestyle
  alteration is not be an answer anymore.

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How Risky is Family History Factor?

• How to prevent heart disease that runs in the
  family is something many people want to know
  about.
• One thing to remember for people in whose
  families heart diseases run, is that though you
  are at a higher risk of heart diseases owing to
  this, however, you will not necessarily develop
  heart related diseases because of this risk
  factor alone. 
• But the more you take it easy or allow wrong
  factors to rub on you, your risk factors become
  greater and with that the likelihood of being
  diagnosed with heart disease rise.

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Non-Family, Self-Acquired Risks of Heart Diseases
Steps to Minimize

• Consequence of Lack of Physical activity in Day
  to Day Life
• According to surveys done by researches the world
  over, it is claimed that 60 of people do less
  physical activities than they should to keep fit.
  
• Our sitting jobs, automated lifestyle has changed
  the way we lived until a few decades ago.
• Coming of age of remote controls for switching on
  or switching off lights, fans, air conditioners
  and TV sets has proved to be our worst enemy.

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Physical Activity vis-à-vis Hearts Health

• Physical activity helps and protects us because
  it helps in regulating our weight and improving
  our bodys use of insulin. 
• Remaining active whether it is by doing various
  daily chores at home or hitting the gym or simple
  walk in the morning or evening routine is good
  for you because it works for your blood pressure,
  blood lipid levels, blood glucose levels, blood
  clotting factors, the health of your blood
  vessels and inflammation, all these are
  indirectly and directly related to the health of
  your heart and various cardiovascular disease.

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Stress vis-à-vis Physical activity

• To prevent heart disease, besides including
  physical activities in your daily routine, you
  also have to make other changes in life. It is
  possible for everyone wishing to lead a healthy
  life to make the effort.
• It is possible to control factors that we are not
  born with or have not inherited from family.
  These are factors that we have acquired over
  years.
• And stress is one of them. Stress has been known
  as a killer, a highly possible risk factor for
  many types of cardiovascular diseases.
• We are all living life under constant stress at
  home, in jobs our travel causes stress, and our
  relationships that were once considered cure for
  stress are causing us more stress than ever
  before.

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Diabetes vis-à-vis Physical activity

• If you are diagnosed with diabetes or it runs in
  your family you have to take extra precautions
  because if you dont, you are at higher risk of
  developing heart disease. 
• If you exercise or include some kind of physical
  activity in your daily routine, it will prove to
  be very helpful as it is well known and proven
  that exercise or any kind of physical activity
  reduces your chances of developing Type 2
  diabetes.
• If you dont yet have diabetes, you are lucky. Do
  all you can to avoid the condition but if you
  already have it then you MUST exercise regularly
  to keep blood sugar under check it will protect
  your heart in the long run.

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How to prevent heart disease Tips for Kids
Adults

• Exercise is one of the ways to steer clear of
  heart problems and has a direct as well as
  indirect impact on your hearts health. Having
  said that it is an extremely effective method to
  control heart issues. There are many other
  methods besides keeping yourself physically
  active to protect from heart diseases.
• You have to try to include the healthiest
  possible diet as per dieticians recommendation

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Learn to cook and eat fresh food and eat it in
peace
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Junk or grub on the run is not the way to live,
and certainly not how you should choose to. You
do have a choice so why not choose the better
one, even if it means a little effort. Why not!
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Avoid Fat to control cholesterol
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Avoid sodium, a big no to salt intake
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Avoid alcohol
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Smoking is a strict no-no passive smoking is
more harmful so dont sit around people who
smoke, the damage it causes to your health is
even worse!
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• Set your body clock right do everything timely
• Eat on time
• Sleep on time
• Do yoga
• Do pranayama, the technique helps oxygen to reach
  each cell in your body
• Meditate
• Avoid stress

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• Do not overwork
• Dont over think
• Get yourself checked for hypertension regularly
  as its known to be the single most important
  risk factor for heart diseases and stroke. It
  puts stress on our blood vessels leading to heart
  issues.
• Test yourself for sugar
• Eat freshly cooked food
• Avoid stale, overcooked, oily food

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• Do not eat food to which preservative has been
  added
• Eat fruits grown locally, in your area
• Eat fibrous, wholegrain cereals, theyre the best
  start to a day
• Make fresh salad and use flaxseed oil salad
  dressing
• Two cups of tea every day! Green or black?
  Doesnt matter!
• Include ground flaxseed in your diet, spread on
  your cereal or yogurt every day

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• Avoid going or sending your kids to places that
  are polluted
• Keep your weight under check, a priceless advice!
• Get BMI done every few months to keep health
  under check
• Do not eat tobacco, it is a killer and carries
  risk of heart disease like no other. Tobacco
  damages the endothelium, which is the lining of
  the blood vessels and starts building up fatty
  deposits in the arteries, developing risk of
  clotting it is also known to raise low-density
  lipoprotein cholesterol, and bring down
  high-density lipoprotein, also leads to coronary
  artery spasm

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Tobacco
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• Women need to avoid smoking or use of tobacco
  more because they are known to be at a higher
  risk of getting heart disease than men
• Cycle for 20 minutes everyday
• Eat small piece of dark chocolate twice or thrice
  a week! It contains chemical called flavonoids
  that keep arteries flexible
• Vitamin B complex every morning is also known to
  help keep heart disease away
• If you hear yourself snoring, visit doctor

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Snoring
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• Sleep for 8 hours, it helps, it helps, it helps!
• Eat fish at least once a week
• Add a handful of hazelnuts into a
  vegetable-and-chicken stir-fry, they are super
  healthy
• Include beans and peas in your diet every other
  day at least
• Avoid self-medication always talk to your doctor
  before gulping down any supplement or medicine.
  Dont trust even your best friend on this. Its a
  doctors job to prescribe medicines

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• Eat cherries oranges
• Give soda a miss
• Include fresh fruit juices in diet instead
• Include ginger and turmeric in your diet
• Dont control the urge to urinate
• Take weekly breaks, they are good for your heart
• Meet friends be social
• Simplify life, relax
• I am not going to remind you again - to drink
  water, at least 8 ounces a day!

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• How to prevent heart disease is a question that
  even an uneducated individual or a teenager can
  answer. Simply because of the fact that heart
  diseases have become very common among everyone.
  The rich and poor alike.
• You may belong to any economic or social strata
  of the society you are exposed to peculiar risks
  at every level which lead to heart related
  ailments and complications.
• If you are eating right, chances are you are
  working in poor environment and if you are
  working in clean environment and do not smoke,
  you may be a victim or passive smoking or you
  might be victim of stress in workplace.
• Thus the reasons for heart diseases are numerous.
  Which one will hit you, you dont know until it
  does! If your heart problem requires surgery,
  check out the best cardiologist surgeon in
  Hyderabad.

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