Friday, February 5, 2010
20 ways to protect your heart
Our heart is a very vital organ in your body, and without it you can’t possibly survive. It controls all the blood pumping to different regions of your body. You need to take extra care of your heart as research has proven that heart disease is a major cause for death, consider changing your lifestyle and overall health, mental social as well as physical. And live an elongated life without any fears of a heart related diseases!
1. Grill a steak. You may think its bad for your heart, but you’d be wrong. Beef contains immunity-boosting selenium as well as homocysteine-lowering B vitamins. And up to 50 percent of the fat is the heart-healthy monounsaturated variety.
2. Run indoors on misty days. Researchers in have found that exercising outside on hot, hazy days when air pollution is at its worst can cut the supply of oxygen in the blood, making it more likely to clot.
3. Dive in the pool. Researchers found that if you burn just 50 calories a day in strenuous activities like swimming and hiking are 62 percent less likely to die of heart disease than people who burn nearly seven times as many calories — 340 per day — during less active pursuits like walking and golfing.
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