Be Good to Your Heart

Celebrate Heart Health Month    February is American Heart Month—a reminder to all that, yes, heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , someone has a heart attack every 25 seconds in America, and someone will die from a heart attack every minute! Pretty frightening statistics, given that many risk factors for heart disease can be significantly reduced with modest lifestyle changes.
Although some risk factors—such as age and family history—can’t be controlled, most risk factors can! Making healthful food choices, being physically active, losing weight if overweight, and supplementing your diet with key nutrients that promote heart health are strategies you can implement to improve and protect the health of the most important organ in your body—your heart.  So,  I'm sharing  10 lifestyle strategies you can implement to promote a healthy heart. 

Ten Lifestyle Strategies for Promoting a Healthy Heart:

1. Make more healthful food choices.

2. Lose the belly fat and keep it off.

3. Get more of the “sunshine” vitamin.

4. Go fishing with omega-3 fatty acids.

5. Protect your body against free radicals and oxidative stress.

6. Boost your phytonutrient intake.

7. Fill up on fiber.

8. Find a friend in Coenzyme Q10.

10. Take time to De-stress.

For details about how to put these tips to use and more, please click here to download the Health Sciences Bulletin on Heart Health (PDF).

** And, for more heart-healthy information, listen to this month’s Health Sciences Conference Call. The portion of last night's call on theScience of Heart Health is now on rebroadcast on 1-512-404-1255, press 2. Listen and share!

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So, this month, yes, make sure you tell those around you that you love them, especially your valentine....but SHOW them your love by taking care of your heart!!!