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Tips for Keeping Your Heart Healthy

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Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States,
by following a few tips for healthy lifestyle you can reduce your
chances of heart disease.


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Tips for Keeping Your Heart Healthy
Copyright (c) 2009 Kevin Kielty
North Carolina Insurance
http://www.ncinsuranceplan.com



Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.
The most important way that you can prevent a heart attack is to
change your lifestyle. The three most important areas to change
are to improve your nutrition, increase your exercise and stop
smoking. Improvements in these three areas can reduce your
chances of a heart attack and increase your chance is a long and
healthy life

Your goal should be to burn as many calories as you take in each
day. Start by learning how many calories you are currently taking
in by keeping a notebook. Log everything you eat and then
calculate the calories at the end of each day. Then, you will
need to find out what your calorie intake should be for your
height and age.

Improve Your Nutrition

Improving your diet is not just about cutting back on calories,
but it's about choosing the best foods. Foods that can either be
nutrient rich or nutrient poor. Nutrient rich foods include
fruits and vegetables and whole grains foods. Fruits and
vegetables have lots of vitamins and minerals as well as fiber
and whole grain foods have a high amount of fiber. Nutrient poor
foods are those that are high in calories, but low in nutrients.
These include non-diet sodas, candy and other sweets. For a heart
healthy diet, you should also limit the amount of high
cholesterol foods each day, try to stay under 300 mg per day.
Limit the amount of snack foods you have, and also try to cut
back on your daily salt intake.

Increase Exercise

25% of Americans lead sedentary lifestyles, causing them to be
overweight. Increasing exercise is an important factor to
preventing heart disease and it can also lower blood pressure and
cholesterol. Most people should be exercising 30 minutes, 5 days
per week. That time can even be broken down into 10 minute
exercise periods throughout the day.

Start out with a stretching routine, and then a warm-up before
you begin your exercise regime. This can prevent muscle injury
and strain. Nothing will derail a new exercise program like sore
muscles or an injury. After the warm up, they you will move into
the calorie burning portion of your exercise. This should be a
moderate level of exertion. You should not be going so hard that
you cannot still talk during the exercise. After the calorie
burning portion, then you will move into a "cool down" period
while your heart rate returns to normal.

Stop Smoking

Smoking kills about 440,000 people in the US every year. The more
cigarettes, a person smokes, the greater their chances for
getting heart disease. Women who smoke and take birth control
pills, greatly increase their chances of a heart attack. Smoking
increases your chance for heart disease, because it decreases the
amount of oxygen that gets to the heart, and increases blood
clotting and blood pressure.

If you want to keep your heart healthy, there are our several
important steps you can take. The first is to choose healthy,
nutrient rich foods in your diet. The second is to increase your
physical activity and the third is to stop smoking. If you
incorporate all of these changes into your life.




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on health insurance in North Carolina, visit BCBSNC, also
known as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
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