Simple Steps In Preventing Heart Disease
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios

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Preventing heart disease is easy and simple. The hard part is having the heart to do these simple steps daily. But if you value your heart and your life, you might reconsider your daily habits or way of living and consider the simple steps below to preventing heart disease.

Step 1 – Eat Less Fat

Everything that has fat tastes great. Fat adds flavor to any food. But you need to lessen your intake of fat, most especially trans fat, to avoid getting your blood cholesterol elevated. A clogged artery is caused by hardened cholesterol. Cutting off hamburgers and fries to your daily diet is already a great way of preventing heart disease.

Step 2 – Eat Less Sodium

Salt helps in retaining water in the body. But if you have an excess of salt in your system, you will retain unnecessary bodily fluids, which in turn will elevate your blood pressure. The heart suffers the most when the blood pressure is high.

Step 3 – Exercise Regularly

Keep your heart in shape with a daily exercise. Cardio exercise includes brisk walking, cycling, jogging, and swimming. A fifteen-minute treadmill walks a day keeps heart disease at bay.

Step 4 – Aim for Ideal Weight

Who says being thin is in? If you are extremely thin, your heart will lose nutrients and electrolytes it needs to function well. Don't aim for a ramp model's body; don't starve to death and suffer a heart attack in the process.

Being overweight, however, is not an option either. Obesity is the way to go if you want to have a blood cholesterol level good enough for ten people. Just aim for your ideal weight as dictated by your body mass index (BMI). Don't go outside (below or above) your BMI in preventing heart disease.

Step 5 - Reduce Stress

Stress is a part of life. You, however, must learn how to face and reduce daily stresses of life. One recommendation is having a 15 minute quite time, daily. Quite time may be in a form of meditation. Having tea while your feet are elevated onto an ottoman is also a stress relieving way into preventing heart disease.

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