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A Healthy Heart is a Happy Heart
- Ways to keep a happy heart:
- Don't Smoke - The prime ingredients in cigarettes such as tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine are the most common causes of cardiovascular diseases and lung ailments.
- Diet - Eat a heart-healthy diet with reduced amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol. Reducing the amount of salt intake in your diet will also help.
- Exercise - Moderate exercise is one of the best things you can do to keep your heart and the rest of your body healthy. Exercise helps reduce stress and prevent obesity which in turn is associated with the development of heart disease, diabetes etc.
- Drinking - Alchohol, when taken in small amounts, relaxes the mind and reduces anxiety. More and more studies have shown that alchohol increases your levels of HDL cholesterol (Good Cholesterol). It also dilates blood vessels and keeps blood from clotting. Please keep in mind that you should not have more than two drinks per day. More than that could be detrimental for your health. So drink slow!!!!!
For more information go to:
http://www.webindia123.com/health/age/heart/heart.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/exerciseforseniors.html
http://www.healthyaging.net/
http://senior-fitness.suite101.com/article.cfm/senior_citizen_fitness_activities
Books
Fitness for seniors : amazing body breakthroughs for super health / by Frank K. Wood and the editors of FC & A medical Publishing
What to do for senior health : easy to read, easy to use / by Albert Barnett, Nancy Rushton, Lynne Mumaw
The total guide to a healthy heart : integrative strategies for preventing and reversing heart disease / Seth J. Baum
Low-calorie cookbook : more than 200 delicious recipes for healthy eating / American Heart Association
Chicken soup for the soul healthy living : heart disease / Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Vicki Rackner
DVD / Videos
Autumn hearts - a new beginning (DVD) [videorecording] / U.S. Image Entertainment, 2008
Three of hearts (DVD) / [videorecording] U.S. New Line Video, 2004
Heart & souls (DVD) / [videorecording] 1993
Young in heart (DVD) [videorecording] / U.S. metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Enterainment, 2004
Healthy cooking for healthy heart [videorecording] / U.S. Milliennium Interactive Inc., 2006
Links
American Heart Association
1-800-AHA-USA1
Free information about cardiovascular disease risk factors, prevention, and general wellness including info on diabetes, exercise, nutrition, stress, high blood pressure and other key health topics.
American Stroke Association
1-888-4-STROKE
A division of the American Heart Association which provides information about stroke, risk factors, warning signs, and prevention. Includes referral to stroke support groups and information for stroke survivors and caregivers
Go Red For Women
The Go Red for Women movement is a national call to increase awareness of heart disease, the leading cause of death for women, and to inspire women to take charge of their heart health. Go online to join the movement and take the Heart Check Up.
Healthier Generation
Childhood obesity poses a great threat to the future health of today’s youth. For the first time in history, children may live shorter lives than their parents. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, our partnership with the Clinton Foundation, focuses on children’s lifestyles and factors that contribute to this epidemic.
CPR Anytime
The CPR Anytime line of self-directed learning products was developed to increase CPR knowledge and awareness among the general public – those who do not traditionally attend CPR courses. It is a self-directed, personal CPR kit that makes learning the core skills of CPR easy, convenient, affordable. It takes just 22 minutes to learn and can be done anywhere. This kit does not provide certification in CPR.
Advocacy
You don’t have to be a doctor to save lives. Just be willing to deliver a lifesaving message to public officials whenever you can. Speak up for vital research funding, important public health programs, smoke-free workplaces and public areas, and improving physical education and nutrition in our schools. Become a member of our nationwide grassroots advocacy network today!
Delicious Decisions
A free website of the American Heart Association with information about nutrition, eating out, shopping and weight management. It also has delicious heart-healthy recipes from our cookbooks.
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