| Are you among the hundreds of persons that are | | | | you're doing it outdoors. For even better motivation and |
| suffering from heart disease or high cholesterol or | | | | results, you can whistle or sing while walking. It will |
| worse? Have you gone through a heart attack? | | | | make the exercise fun. |
| Nowadays, it has become uncommon to meet | | | | 3- Calm down and let go stress: Consider life as a |
| someone who isn't suffering from heart disease or has | | | | game, and whenever you feel stress is coming, drop |
| had a heart attack, or has been said that he or she is | | | | everything. Nothing is more important than your health. |
| at risk for heart disease. Unfortunately, and even | | | | If you can learn to control your emotions and get rid of |
| though this has become a common pain, the media, | | | | stress, this is good, but if you cannot, just stop the thing |
| people and even doctors are quite misinformed as to | | | | you're doing that is causing you stress. |
| how to tackle the whole phenomena that is the | | | | 4- Beware of low fat diets: They are not the solution |
| number one killer epidemic in all countries around the | | | | for a healthy heart. Actually, you can get yourself in a |
| world. | | | | poorer condition in your attempts to go for low fat. |
| What should we do? | | | | Your heart needs healthy fats, and the only fats you |
| The best way is to fight the risk factors of the | | | | need to drop are the ones related to hydrogenated oils |
| disease. Many things can be done, but if you stick with | | | | and the commercial oil used and re-used for French |
| the following, you will be on your way to a heart | | | | fries and donuts preparations. |
| healthy plan: | | | | 5- Saturated fats are not that bad, if eaten in |
| 1- Stop smoking and get away from smokers: Apart | | | | moderation: Contrarily to what is oven thought and |
| from tobacco which is not good in itself, cigarettes are | | | | taught, eating saturated fats is not primarily what |
| packed with many toxic chemicals that make them | | | | causes people to get heart diseases. Actually, besides |
| very bad both for the people smoking them, as much | | | | the fact that in most of cases, some people have a |
| as for the people inhaling their smoke. | | | | predisposition for heart diseases, processed foods, |
| 2- Exercise or walk: If you cannot get yourself to | | | | sugars and carbohydrates are what make you so |
| exercise in a structured way, or if exercising is a | | | | sick, and put your heart at risk. |
| challenge for you currently, start by walking and set a | | | | If you only observe the above points, you would be |
| time for walking each day. Begin by walking 5 minutes | | | | much better than if you kill yourself exercising and |
| daily, then increase that time to 10 minutes, and little by | | | | starving alone. They do not however stand in place of |
| little, you can get yourself to walk 30 or 45 minutes per | | | | any medication, if your doctors judge that you need |
| day, and by walking alone, you can strengthen your | | | | some medication for your high cholesterol level for |
| heart and reversed severe heart conditions. In addition | | | | example. Still, they are sure to keep you in good health |
| to that, walking is very calming to the spirit, especially if | | | | and shape with or without medication. |