How To Keep Your Heart Healthy

The statistics is disappointing: the number of cardiovascular diseases increases annually, moreover, heart diseases do affect young people. Often heart diseases are caused by stress, bad habits and other factors that we create ourselves. What habits should we acquire and what habits should we avoid?

Make exercises
Go to the gym or swimming pool, but before it you should necessary consult the doctor. Listen to your body and choose an optimal load and never overdo it. If you don't have enough time for fitness, you should spend more time on fresh air. Doctors recommend to get over three kilometers daily at a lively pace to train heart. You may also occupy with Nordic walking that is not only fashionable today but also healthy. The only sports equipment that you may need is special walking-sticks. Such walking trains heart and 90% of all body muscles and helps to burn 45% more calories than usual walking. Multiple studies made by Scandinavian scientists showed that one hour walking 5 times a week helps to reduce heart risks by 50%.

Follow a healthy diet
Consume more vegetables, fruits, fish, less roasted and fatty foods. Besides this, dietitians recommend to consume cereals, vegetable oils and whole-wheat bread, they prevent cholesterol increase and blood clot organization. Do not forget about strawberries, red bilberries, apricots and especially raspberries. They are rich in salicylic acid that helps to normalize blood coagulability. Desiccated raspberries contain it 20 times more than fresh berries. Also salicylic acids are found in raspberry leaves, therefore add them in tea.

Look after your weight
Excessive weight provokes increase of cholesterol level, sugar, blood pressure which increases risks for atherosclerosis. Visceral adiposopathy (fats are accumulated around internals) and obesity in abdomen area are greatest risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and more often they do affect people aged 35 – 45.

Refuse from smoking
Here everything is clear. Cigarettes and heart are antonyms.

One Minute of Exercise a Day Could Prevent Diabetes

Medical experts claim that just one minute of exercise a day helps to prevent development of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes develops when glucose level in blood becomes dangerously high due to depression of insulin function. Frequently the cause of this disease is sedentary lifestyle and therefore experts recommend exercises to prevent diabetes.

A recent study showed that just one minute of exercise a day would be enough to reduce significantly risks for diabetes development. Volunteers twice a day in the course of three days intensively exercised on a bike for 20 seconds, and as a result in six weeks the function of insulin was improved by 28%.

Our muscles do accumulate sugar in form of glycogen which we use when make exercises. In order to supplement lost reserves, muscles take sugar from blood. In passive people muscles are not used to that and therefore reduces sensibility to insulin and increases blood sugar level which leads to type 2 diabetes development.

Scientists from Great Britain say that there is no more rapid and effective way to make muscles use glycogen, than intensive exercises. In 20 seconds of exercises human body uses the same amount of glycogen as it uses during an hour of mid-intensive exercises.

Sedentary Lifestyle Increases Risks for Cancer

The more time you spend in sitting position at home or at work, the more higher is risk for cancer, say Canadian scientists. To protect yourself from negative effects of sedentary lifestyle, you should get up and make some exercises from time to time.

“There exists strong proof that bowel cancer and breast cancer do rarely affect people who are physically active. However, it is not enough to follow recommendations according to which minimal activity rate necessary for the health is 150 minutes of exercises weekly. If in the rest time you make nothing but spend it in sitting position, then you surely will have problems”, report scientists from Calgary, Canada.

Regular exercises help to reduce risks for bowel cancer development by 35%. The more you make exercises, the better effects you get. Physical activity reduces risks for breast cancer development by 25%.

There exists an opinion that overweight increases risks for cancerous growths due to increase of inflammation rate in the body. Physical activity reduces the number of inflammatory markers and this explains physical activity influence on risks for cancer development which increases in presence of inflammatory processes in the body.

3 Hours of Exercises Weekly Prolong Life

How to save heart and blood vessels from serious problems? It's all in your hands, say American researchers. Only three hours of physical activity each week may significantly reduce risks of cardio-vascular diseases development.

Latest study of Harvard School of Public Health shows that three hours of intense exercises daily help to reduce risks of heart attacks development by 22%.

Researchers found that in 38% cases the reduction of disease development was the result of healthy influence of physical activity on rate of “good” cholesterol in the blood or high-density lipoprotein.

In the study participated 1239 males who presented information about intensity of their weekly physical activity. The researchers analyzed cholesterol level in their blood and insulin sensitivity rate.

As expected, in males who had heart attack in past, the rate of “bad” cholesterol was higher than of “good” cholesterol. Moreover, those males more frequently suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure. Specialists say that physical activity helps to lower greatly heart attacks risks and other serious cardio-vascular diseases.

Is there Cure for Senescence?

There exist no medications to stop natural process of aging. However, the picture is different when the talk is about infirmities of age. Treatment of such diseases usually helps to slow their development and ease their treatment. However, full recovery is impossible.

When aged person wants to be cheerful and youthful, he must take care about his health. One of the most important requirements here is balanced nutrition. It is recommended to consume food frequently in small portions. It is not recommended to consume fat food.

To maintain good physical form it is necessary to make exercises, to walk, to swim, to work in the garden, to use stairs instead of elevator. Also is required mental “training”. Reading, self-improvement, learning foreign languages help to fight premature senescence.

Senescence is not a disease and doctors cannot prevent you from it. In issues about life length are interested people in their older age. The more older person is, the more disorders he has. Moreover, the more older man is, the more often he suffers from chronic diseases. Even if a man feels himself quite good, it is necessary to measure arterial pressure, check cardiac performance, vision and hearing.

Older people may suffer from mental illnesses. People die after they achieve older age. Cells become poor, body ages and fades away. However, few people die naturally from aging. Often people die from a disease which their weak body couldn't fight.

When does aging begin?
Organs in human body age at different times. Some organs age more rapidly, some more slowly, for example, first signs of intervertebral disks aging do appear in children. At 50 years in women ovarian function gets broken and hormonal balance changes. On the average, first signs of senescence appear at 50 – 70 years and with time become more emphatic.