Healthy Heart - You Should Know About Heart Disease

Based on World Health Organization (WHO) healthmetabolizes blood sugar (glucose).
report in 1997, heart disease and blood vesselStress also causes your heart will beat faster and
responsible for the deaths worldwide, or approximatelyyour breathing becomes shorter. This will increase the
15 million people, some 7.2 million due to coronary heartproduction of stress hormones and it will make you
disease, and 4.6 million people due to stroke , and themore anxious. In fact, inhaled a deep breath to trigger
remainder from other heart diseases. In developingthe release of chemicals that make you more relaxed.
countries such as Indonesia itself constantly increasingFinally, the presence of stress can start bad habits, like
nearly 50% each year.smoking or turn to food as a stress release. Learn
So far, there is also the assumption that when womenhow to cope with stress will alleviate this adverse
exercise diligent enough to avoid this disease. Or byeffect.
removing a variety of fast food processed foods are4. What happens when you sleep, will affect your
also able to drive away this disease. In addition, if youheart health.
feel young and healthy, how could need to worryIf you think you sleep so soundly that it's hard to wake,
about heart disease?what is that right? More than 18 million adults in the
The fact is heart disease kills more women agedUnited States suffer from sleep apnea, a disease that
25-44 years old each year than breast cancer. Mythcould threaten the soul marked by cessation of breath
that heart disease only affects men and elderly.that sometimes occur hundreds of times per night
However, you do not worry. The results of researchwithout you knowing it. Only 10 percent of these
conducted has shown that 82% of the risk of heartpeople are aware if they suffer from this disorder.
disease, can be prevented through lifestyle changes.These diseases can increase the risk of high blood
Well, to find out what can prevent heart disease, whatpressure, heart attacks and strokes, because it will put
are the most important thing as a step that can bepressure on the heart when you try to breathe. This
done to reduce the risk of heart disease.situation also creates a stress reaction will keep the
1. Exercise your heart every day.adrenaline flow can damage the heart over time.
Overweight or even obesity can increase the risk of5. Siblings can be a mirror of your health.
heart disease or stroke. Your heart harder to workIf you have a parent or grandparent with heart
pumping blood throughout the body if you overweight.disease is the biggest risk factor for heart disease
Also if you have excess fat around your waist, thisitself. But you may not realize when your brother or
belly fat can affect the metabolism, increasing the risksister, one of them are suffering from heart disease it
of diabetes, as well as your cholesterol level. Should stillis a more accurate predictor. Several studies say that,
maintain good habits and maintain body mass indexregardless of lifestyle factors or age, your risk of
(BMI) to stay below 25.coronary heart disease will increase significantly if you
In a recent study of more than 27,000 women athave siblings who have experienced it. Also, the
Harvard Medical School, researchers found that onlyyounger brother you are diagnosed with this disease,
one or two hours of physical activity a week canthe higher your risk.
reduce the risk of heart disease by 27%. WhileAnd if the youngest sibling has been diagnosed with
exercise two to five hours per week will reduce theheart disease, the chances become greater you will
risk of heart disease by 32%, while training more thanexperience it. Therefore recommend that your family
five hours per week can reduce the risk of up to 41%.members, especially brothers or sisters, to conduct
While changes in body mass index (BMI) of a woman,regular health checks, to check their cholesterol and
would only reduce the risk of heart disease by 10%.blood pressure. In addition, also check if they have
Sport has a direct effect to reduce inflammation,diabetes. Diabetes is one of the triggers of heart
improve blood vessel function, lowering blood pressuredisease because of increased blood sugar levels will
and cholesterol levels, no matter your weight down oraccelerate the emergence of blood vessel plaques.
not. Try exercising your heart 30 to 60 minutes at6. Two major risk factors for heart disease show no
least five times a week.symptoms.
2. Stop smoking right now.Blood pressure and cholesterol levels is an important
If you have the habit of smoking, the risk of heartfactor to measure your risk for heart disease, heart
disease will increase two to four times greater thanattack and stroke. High blood pressure makes your
those who never smoked. Research also shows thatheart work harder than in normal circumstances,
smokers who had a heart attack will be more likely towhereas high cholesterol levels can trigger the
die (suddenly in one hour). Nicotine is a great deal offormation of plaque inside blood vessels.
pressure on the blood vessels that affects theThe important thing is whether you have one or two
absorption of oxygen in the body, and also acceleraterisk factors for heart disease, it is important to take
the emergence of plaque in arteries.general health check once a year. For total cholesterol
Smoking will also lowering HDL (high density lipoprotein)number should be below 200 milligrams perdesiliter (mg
or commonly known as good cholesterol, increase/ dL), with LDL less than 100 mg / dL, HDL at 50 mg /
levels of LDL (low density lipoprotein) or baddL or higher, and triglycerides less than 150 mg / dL. Do
cholesterol as well make the blood cells become morenot forget to make sure your blood pressure reads
sticky and increases the risk of clotting.120/80 or lower.
Fortunately, not too late to stop this bad habit. A study7. Free from trans fats.
at Kurume University School of Medicine in Japan,Studies conducted at the Harvard School of Public
found that smokers who stopped smoking a year, canHealth shows the result that someone who ate the
quickly improve the function of red blood cells.most trans fats increase the risk of heart disease
3. Stress makes your heart work harder.compared to one-third times that consumed the least.
Stress is a part of life that can not be avoided. StressAfter eating many foods that contain high saturated oil,
can affect your mood and even your attitude whenyour blood vessels will be more difficult to expand and
dealing with others. Stress will cause some physicalincrease blood flow, while cholesterol 'good' to be not
changes in the body that can unwittingly triggervery effective in giving substance that can cause
coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pain,plaque from blood vessels.
and heart rhythm irregularities, stress will interfere withTo maintain healthy cholesterol levels, you get less
the body's immune system, so you will be morethan 10% of daily calories from saturated fat (about 20
susceptible to disease.grams or 180 calories per day with a standard
Also stress will increase inflammation in the body,2000-calorie diet). Changing consumption of full cream
releasing chemicals that damage the blood vessels,dairy products to low fat, avoid foods that are also
and will flood your body with stress hormones, likemade with tropical oils, and limit your daily consumption
cortisol. The existence of this cortisol will increaseof red meat to less than 100 grams.
pressure vessels and bad for the way the body