Indication the most important of our body’s systems is extremely hard. If we had to point this the cardiovascular system would be obvious candidate because of its complexity and key role for our own health. Cardiovascular system is responsible for blood transportation with nutritional components, hormones ond oxygen of course. Made of cardiovasculars (arteries, vains, capillaries) and heart, this particular mechanism is particularly sensitive for lifestyle, and the only good way to make it work on perfect level is proper diet and physical activity. The problems with cardiovascular system are often generated by bad nutritional habits and sitting style of work. Below there are given five simple steps for better health of our cardiovascular system.
Vegetables and fruits. For heart’s health its very important to provide at least 5 portions of the vegetables and fruits daily. It means raw vegetables and fruits, red, green,yellow and blue, full of fibre, vitamins and minerals, can be alternatively steamed.
Movement. Heart loves physical activity. You can imagine, that heart simply likes to beat faster - that means that heart likes to train. The better trained, the healthier. The effort most effective to heart is walking, running, riding, swimming, dancing, skiing. It’s significant especially for people with hypertension and threat of arteriosclerosis.
Food without unhealthy fried fats. Fats treat as healthy like olive under the high temperature change their properties (e.g. oxidation) what leads to creating compounds of opposite effects negative to heart and carcinogenic. Animal fats or palm olive are stable under the high temperature but it is because of saturated acids which are clearly related to the heart diseases (no matter if eaten hot or cold). Eating of fried fats - even in fish - increases the risk of hypertension, heart disability, infarctions, diabetes and obesity.
Active rest, sleep, relax. The oxygen, good sleeping, resting. These are groundings of fight with the stress, and it’s never too much of it. Short sleep (under 5-6 hours) is connected in many researches with coronary artery disease, infarctions, hypertension, inflammations develop and increasing activity of sympathetic nervous system (on its functional blocking lies many heart diseases therapies!). Not only short sleep is dangerous, but also too long resting seems to be not good. Eight hours of sleeping sounds optimal for maintain us in good health.
Fit, light posture. Overweight and obesity - that’s not the heart likes the most! Even 5-10 percent of loosing weight claims with spectacular decrease of heart diseases risk. In medicine there is a special term - metabolic syndrome: when beside the obesity it happen hypertension, diabetes, and lipid disfunction (high cholesterol), we have so increased risk of infarction and stroke, that this state used to be known as "death crossroads".
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