Entries from January 2008 ↓

There are several causes of heart disease and smoking is one of them. And, there are many diseases which can develop from smoking and heart disease is one of them. Cigarette smoking is actually a major cause of heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. Peripheral vascular disease refers to a range of abnormal conditions that affect the veins outside your heart, usually obstructing flow of blood in arteries.

Smoking is very famous like a celebrity star, in different ways. In exchange from the pleasure of smoking (pleasure for smokers because it’s very addictive!), your life is the price you pay.

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Living a fast pace life in the twenty first century has resulted to a lesser time to exercise and cooking healthy well-balanced meals. People have started to stimulate their bodies with caffeine and nicotine to cope up with a busy day ahead, and again need depressants like alcohol to slow down at the end of the day.

Sitting down to eat vegetables and fresh fruits have been replaced with stuffing themselves on the go with junk foods that are low in fiber and valuable polyunsaturated fat and instead fill in their diet with carbohydrates and saturated fat. People having this life style may more or less live longer on average than their ancestors, but most of them live their older years in chronic poor health, with medications to lower blood pressure and cholesterol to keep the blood from clotting. For short, they live their lives miserably with heart disease.

Given the prevalence of heart disease, there are many good reasons to take precaution and find ways to prevent heart disease.  Although years of research have been unable to exactly explain the cause of heart disease, risk factors have been identified that can help find ways to prevent heart disease. Continue reading →

Heart disease comes in a number of forms.  There are coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, congestive heart disease, congenital heart disease, and a lot more.

All of these forms are deemed capable of causing the deaths of millions of people in the whole world.   Several studies have in fact revealed that heart disease is responsible for half of all deaths in the United States alone, and it is the main cause of death in other countries.  Given this report, it is now easy for us to say that heart disease is truly a serious, life-threatening condition that needs to be taken into consideration, not to be ignored.

But the question is how to start solving the problem with heart disease?
The answer for that is pretty simple – just know what causes heart disease to occur and develop.
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By Cindy J Stone

Exercise is good for you, not just only for your heart bur for your general wellbeing. When you feel good, you sense of wellbeing is lifted, your stress is reduces, which also benefits your heart greatly. Even if you have never got around to exercising, it is never too late to start, you do not have to join a gym, a great way to start is to just take a walk regularly.

The Heart Foundation makes three very good points on exercise:

1. The intensity, or how hard you exercise. Do not at any point overdo it, especially if you are just starting out. You should still be able to talk whil you are exercising, of if you get too breathless, slow down or stop for the time being and try again later when you are a little rested. Continue reading →