Optimizing Your Cardiac Health : The Easy Way

The human body is designed as a machine that never ceases working and the heart is the engine that drives it.  As such, this organ needs to be kept in optimal health if your body is to function as a wholesome unit.  Unfortunately, the stressful lifestyles that the present day rat race has brought on us have reduced the resilience and health of our body in particular and the heart in general.  However, a little bit of caution and restraint in our eating habits can greatly reduce the risk of running heart diseases by a great deal. 

There are four cardinal guiding principles when it comes to fortifying the heart.  These are, eating a balanced, healthy diet, undertaking regular exercises, improving lifestyle practices and desisting from habits that are known to be injurious to physical and mental health. Let us examine each of these aspects one by one. 

First of all, a healthy diet plays a great role in ensuring that your heart is always in the pink of health.  The emphasis today is on eating small quantities of foods at regular intervals rather than ingesting large quantities at one go.  This allows better metabolism, which further ensures that no additional fat is deposited at unwanted places in the body.  Fresh fruits and vegetables are the best bets here, since they provide essential nutrients and calories without clogging up the body.  Foods that contain very less fat and calories but rich in nutrients must form the lion’s share of your daily intake and a little restraint and care here would ensure that your heart is perfectly alright.  Add eight to ten glasses of water to this low fat diet, and your heart would thank you for your tender care. 

The second step is to undertake regular physical exercises.  It is common knowledge that lack of exercising, whether it is your body or any machinery for that matter, would result in it getting rusted and useless.  Here also, it is the same case.  Your heart needs to be exercised properly as per the prescribed formats so that it remains robust, sturdy and healthy at all times.  It is highly important to undertake only the essential workouts, that also as per the ability of the body to take strain without breaking.  This is something many newcomers forget.  Regular exercises speed up blood purification, toxin expulsion and waste excretion processes. They also make the heart stronger. 

The third very important factor governing heart health is lifestyle practices.  Of all these, getting proper sleep at regular patterns is very essential.   Six to eight hours of sound sleep is a must and you must never forget this, lest you may suffer in the long term.  Also, keeping away from stress, undergoing meditation etc also are good lifestyle practices that not only strengthens the heart, but also enlivens your entire physique. 

Finally, there comes the need to keep away from bad habits.  Smoking is definitely bad for your heart in particular and your body in general.   Excessive intake of alcohol, drugs etc also result in heart fatigue and failure.  In short, the health of your heart is more or less the overall sum of your lifestyle practices.