Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Heart Disease Prevention

Heart disease prevention means making changes to a more healthy lifestyle. There is a connection between heart diseases and diabetes. It is a fact that if you happen to have diabetes, your chances of encountering a heart attack will double and in some cases it’s even four times as high. In fact, the numbers that die due to heart diseases also show that diabetes is a major cause of such deaths.

Although certain risk factors such as sex, genetics and also age are not within our control, we can minimize the chances of getting heart disease by adopting a healthy lifestyle and diet.

There is also other means by which heart disease prevention can be practiced, and according to what the American Heart Association suggests, one must control obesity even in children and also make a concerted effort to take proper diet that contains adequate nutrition including consuming fruits, vegetables and whole grains that will help prevent heart diseases.

The best heart disease prevention may not be a single course of action, rather there are many approaches combined into one that will prove to be more effective, and you can choose approaches such as changes in diet, along with regular exercise and also keeping blood sugar levels low as well as taking dietary supplements that are recommended by health experts.

Good heart disease prevention may also mean keeping the blood pressure under control and also having LDL cholesterol at low levels, and the best way to achieve these goals is by making proper changes to diet and even by taking prescription medications if so recommended by the doctor. Obviously, having low blood sugar levels will count as heart disease prevention and so too is the consumption of dietary supplements; especially, if they contain antioxidants and also vitamin B as well as folic acid.

One of the better dietary supplements you may want to consider for heart disease prevention is mangosteen puree that is rich in antioxidants. Mangosteen is not the same as your usual mango and is rich in vitamin B and also folic acid that helps keep homocysteine low, which if they rise will lead to arteriosclerotic disease.

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