Avoid Stress for Heart Health

Most specialists say that safe amount of coffee per day is no more than three small cups. Moreover, small amount of coffee is healthy for heart.

For example, scientists from California University during 15 years examined 27,000 women and came to a conclusion that 1-2 cups of freshly brewed coffee  per day helped to reduce risks for cardiovascular diseases almost by 25%.

As to alcohol, it may bring both benefit and great harm to human body and cardiovascular system. To strengthen heart, many doctors recommend to drink a glass of red wine no more than 2-3 times weekly.

Doctors know that stress and worries have a negative effect on our heart. Scientists from University College London recently found that in people with chronic stress very quickly do develop coronary artery diseases.

Scientists from Free University Medical Centre Amsterdam proved that high concentration of key stress hormone called cortisone five time increases death risks from such cardiovascular diseases as heart attack, blood stroke and heart failure, therefore you should fight it with all possible ways.

Make exercises, keep company with positive people, in other words, seek for any opportunity for positive emotions.

Laughing And Music Normalize High Blood Pressure

Japanese researchers claim that music and laughing not just give a lift but also help to normalize high blood pressure. During a study researchers divided 79 volunteers aged 40 – 74 into three groups and examined effects of music and laughing on blood pressure comparing with control group.

Results showed that in volunteers who were attending lessons of music and singing, blood pressure was reduced by 6 points.

Those who were attending courses of laughter therapy got their blood pressure reduced by 7 points. In three months after beginning of experiments blood pressure of volunteers, who attended lessons of music and laughing, was reduced.

“Rate of stress hormone called cortisol in participants bodies was significantly reduced after each lesson. We consider this might be one of eventual explanations of what effects have music and laughing on blood pressure ”, say researchers noting that results of the experiment confirm just connection between both phenomena and not cause-effect relations.

Different experts say that this research specified the role which stress plays in blood pressure change. Various relaxation methods may be useful for people suffering from high blood pressure.

Stay Healthy In Your 40s

Have enough sleep.
Is there anyone who dislikes after a long fatiguing day watching TV or reading abed? It stands to reason that fatigue from work and home problems people relieve by lying on the bed. In case you really want to energize your body it is better for you to sleep.

Sleep is a restorative process necessary for a normal immunity functioning. From half to an hour of extra sleep is enough to make your immunity system much stronger. The main thing is that you should not fight with yourself when you feel you want to sleep. This is the way body says you that it needs reloading.

Learn to relax.
40 – 45 years of life are most stressful. Problems on the job, conflicts with grown up children, psychological borders of middle-aged – all these things superimpose on one another and as a result you feel permanent psychic tension. Stress washes you out not only morally but also physically making immune system work erratically, and as a result your body reacts slowly on viruses and bacteria. You should contribute time to relax, at least 15 – 20 minutes every three hours.

For example, at work you can catch a break and drink a cup of coffee, or you may go out on fresh air, or just lean backwards and close your eyes. Many companies long ago have understood benefits of this and so they made special relaxing rooms employees. These are small dark rooms with comfortable chairs where employees may relax and even have a nap.

However, remember, if you have a free moment from work and you switch your attention on an internet site or other computer entertainments – you just fool yourself. Your brain works on with the same intensity and maybe more harder when you check your mail, talk on the Internet chats or just check your cell phone. Psychologists claim that plenty of equipment and means of communication have a great impact on the mind and all these things do overload us with information which causes chronic stress.