Your heart is a critical muscle, it beats more than once a second for your entire life. When it stops, you die, it is that simple.
Critical factors
- How much you eat and what you eat
- How much you exercise regularly
- How little you smoke
New thinking on a healthy heart
- Refined carbohydrates are more likely to be turned into the bad kind of fat which clogs arteries
- Trans fats are always bad – avoid – they are found in processed foods
- Taking a baby aspirin prevents heart attacks, now the thinking is; if you haven’t already had a heart attack daily aspirin is not advised
- Keep your blood pressure low by managing your weight and salt in your diet