Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Factors contributing to cardiovascular diseases include hereditary genetic traits, sexes, living and eating habits, all of which have effects on the ability of each person to get ill.
Control of risk-contributing factors
Factors contributing to cardiovascular diseases include hereditary genetic traits, sexes, living and eating habits, all of which have effects on the ability of each person to get ill. For example, men have more risks to get heart attacks than women do during their youth. However, women are significantly posed to higher risks of cardiovascular diseases after their menopause period. Also, people who have family history of the disease will have more risks than people who do not.
Daily living and eating habits can also lead to conditions like high blood cholesterol level or high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes,…being contributing factors to higher risks of getting cardiovascular diseases.
Smoking can lead to risks of getting cardiovascular diseases 2 to 4 times than not, besides increasing the risks to other people in the vicinity who inhale their smoke as passive smokers. It will never be late to quit smoking because only 24 hours after you quit the risks will start to be reduced.
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Adjusting of living habits can help with prevention and reduction of risks of getting cardiovascular diseases. People with high risks who practice preventional measures may not get the disease at all, and in contrary, those who are free from the risks in terms of genetic heredity or sex factor, but have inactive lifestyle, lack of exercising, or having unscientific nutritional regime can easily be struck with the disease.
Protect your heart right from today
If you have high risk of getting cardiovascular diseases, consult specialist physician to get diagnosis and advice for a proper strategy for controlling the risks. However, generally speaking, the key to prevention of cardiovascular diseases is to lead a healthy lifestyle, including a well-balanced diet, no smoking, restriction of alcoholic beverage consumption and regular physical exercising.
Only small adjustments in your food consumption habit can give significant improvements to cardiovascular health. Therefore you should start with eating more whole grains, vegetables, beans, fruits, and using more vegetable oils instead of animal fats to keep your heart healthy. Edible oils extracted from soyabeans, olives, rapeseed, sunflower seeds …are very rich in good fatty acids like omega 3-6-9 which can help improve blood cholesterol level. Do not forget to eat fish a few times a week as fish is a source of protein which is good for the heart.
Secondly it is necessary to refrain from smoking, keep blood pressure, blood cholesterol level, body weight and diabetes under control. If you would like to drink, choose wine but keep at reasonable quantity, not more than one glass for women and two for men. Besides avoid inactive lifestyle but spare at least 30 minutes everyday for physical exercising (or gym). Above mentioned changes are not difficult to make provided that you have a little patience or get support from your relatives and friends, those who always want the best for you.
If you have experienced a heart attack, above mentioned advices are still helpful. Keeping away from smoking, having more active lifestyle, being more careful with food and drink and all these can bring about big changes to the health of your heart and body. But the most important thing is to refer to your doctor to get appropriate advice regarding your diet and physical exercise suitable to your health condition.