How to keep your heart healthy

Here are the top 6 ways to keep your heart healthy:

1. Maintain Ideal weight: Being overweight or obese can raise your blood cholesterol levels, increases your blood pressure, these are the risk factors for coronary heart disease. Maintain ideal body weight to avoid the risk factors.

2. Get Moving: Keep moving, as sedentary lifestyle is associated with increased amounts of calcium deposits in heart arteries, which in turn associated with higher risk of heart disease.

3. Exercise daily: Regular exercise can help you burn calories, lower your blood pressure, reduces LDL (bad ) cholesterol, and boosts your HDL (good) cholesterol, which in turn keep your heart healthy.

4. Maintain Diet: Eat more fish, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and beans.  Avoid artificial trans fats completely. Limit saturated fats.  Cut back on salt.

5. Avoid Smoking: Avoid smoking as chemicals in tobacco smoke harm your blood cells.  The damage of blood vessels increases your risk of atherosclerosis.

6. Relieve Stress: Having too much stress for too long is bad for your heart.  Try to relieve stress using stress relieving techniques to have a healthy heart. 



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