Tips for Keeping Your Heart Healthy

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. The most important way that you can prevent a heart attack is to change your lifestyle. The three most important areas to change are to improve your nutrition, increase your exercise and stop smoking. Improvements in these three areas can reduce your chances of a heart attack and increase your chance is a long and healthy life.

Improving your diet is not just about cutting back on calories, but it’s about choosing the best foods. Foods that can either be nutrient rich or nutrient poor. Nutrient rich foods include fruits and vegetables and whole grains foods. Fruits and vegetables have lots of vitamins and minerals as well as fiber and whole grain foods have a high amount of fiber. Nutrient poor foods are those that are high in calories, but low in nutrients.

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