Ways for keeping your heart happy and healthy
Ways for keeping your heart happy and healthy
Do all of these as part of your daily routine and you will have a fine heart that will keep beating strong for years!!This are the the ways that will keep your heart happy and healthy.
Eat heart healthy foods like avocado, oatmeal, salmon, olive oil, nuts, berries, pure chocolate (100 per cent), legumes and spinach. Make one of these a part of every meal.
Cut out the ugly artery clogging fried foods, oily foods, processed foods and artificial sugars.
Have a cup of coffee/green tea. Both have anti-ageing properties.
Have a glass of red wine (1 glass per day max). More anti-ageing!
Consume high fibre diet.
Get Your 5 A Day
Eat at least five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables a day. They’re a good source of fibre, vitamins and minerals. There are lots of tasty ways to get your 5 A DAY, like adding chopped fruit to cereal or including vegetables in your pasta sauces and curries.
Cut Down On Salt
To maintain healthy blood pressure, avoid using salt at the table and try adding less to your cooking. Once you get used to the taste of food without added salt, you can cut it out completely.
Give up Smoking
If You ‘re a smoker, quit. It’s the single best thing you can do for your heart health.
Smoking is one of the main causes of coronary heart disease. A year after giving up, your risk of a heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.
Read the food label
When shopping, it’s a good idea to look at the label on food and drink packaging to see how many calories and how much fat, salt and sugar the product contains. Understanding what is in food and how it fits in with the rest of your diet will help you make healthier choices.
Meditate. This reduces stress levels and makes the heart pump normally. Even 10 minutes a day can be of much good.
Do one enjoyable activity every day. A crossword; phone your best friend; read a book; watch a comedy show; anything that is happy and positive.
Learn to say no!!
Saying yes to everything can lead to stress and poor health .
Laughter
Laughter really is the best medicine it releives stress and improve your immune system .
When stres is their pick up a pen
Writing about stressful events can help you release negative emotions and fell better .
Smile
When you beam on the outside ,you beam on inside too.Research links happiness with strong heart .
Say thanks
Expressing gratitude reduces stress which may help take extra strain off your heart.
“A healthy heart leads to a happy life”
-kunal
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