5 Congestive Heart Disease Beaters
By Judy Wellsworth
The most important thing to know about congestive heart disease is almost entirely preventable. disease results from a life of poor nutrition, insufficient exercise, smoking, and alcohol and drug abuse.
All of those activities can result in a deterioration of the heart’s muscle fibers and their inability to contract strongly enough to send adequate blood supply to the rest of the body. The other organs, including the lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain all suffer when the heart cannot pump efficiently.
How can one stay away from acquiring disease?
Are there steps you can take to avoid failure? Yes, and they do not require any expensive medications. They simply require you to change the ways you eat move, and rest.
Good Foods If You Want To Prevent Heart Disease:
Eat oatmeal for breakfast. Even better, eat oatmeal with a side of blueberries for breakfast. Both oatmeal and blueberries have been show to be excellent cholesterol fighters--blueberries have even outperformed the drug Ciprofibrate in lowering LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, and without any side effects!
Replace half the red meat you eat with fish-- wild salmon, tuna, mackerel, and sardines are especially high in Omega 3 fatty acids which also fight LDL cholesterol and keep the blood vessels flexible and clear so that the heart does not have to strain to send the blood where it needs to go.
If you insist on drinking alcohol, drink red wine. Red wine contains reservratrol, which studies have shown allows mice to burn more energy and keep their figures. Obesity has been definitively linked to [http://www.treatheartdiseasehelp.com/Congenital_Heart_Disease/]congestive heart disease, so every little bit of excess
energy burned and not stored as fat is a help. Green tea, for those who would prefer to abstain from alcohol, will fight disease in the same way, and is loaded with anti-oxidants to fight aging diseases as well.
Exercise And Rest To Prevent Failure
If you aren’t in shape to run, walk at least fifteen minutes each day, on a treadmill if possible. You need to start strengthening your heart muscle. But don’t overdo it. Exercise will gradually build up you lungs’ capacity to absorb oxygen and send it to the heart in the bloodstream, but neither you lungs nor heart will learn to perform at their maximum if they are never asked to perform beyond their minimum. You’ll know when you’re ready to step up the pace of your workouts.
Finally, learn to relax. Studies have shown that a driven personality can very easily drive itself straight into disease and a heart attack. Taking a few minutes--as few as fifteen--a day to do nothing and forget all the pressing matters which normally plague you will let your entire body get a breather, and be one more weapon in your fight against disease.
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