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Avoiding the New Year coronary
“With the start of January millions have made their New Year’s resolutions for 2007.
As the bells chimed midnight on 31 December, many will have pledged to lose weight, give up smoking and do more exercise.
But by the end of the first week of the New Year many of those good intentions have already turned to dust. “
Heart disease is still the biggest killer in the western world, and healthy food and exercise are key to keeping our hearts healthy.
Follow these rules to help improve heart health:
- Give up smoking: After quitting for eight hours nicotine and carbon monoxide levels reduced by half
- Get physical: Cut 30 minutes exercise into manageable slots of two 15 minutes, or three 10 minutes
- Slim down: Start eating more low fat food
- Step up: Count your daily steps and increase by 10% until you reach 10,000
- Reduce fat: Swap full fat milk for semi-skimmed
- Increase fruit intake: Start having fresh fruit juice
- Cut salt: Reduce blood pressure
- Walk off stress: Where possible walk rather than take bus, car
- Increase omega three levels: Eat two portions of oily fish a week
- Cut calories: Just cutting out one alcoholic drink will save 100 empty calories
“Statistics show that all men over 55 have a 10-15% chance of a heart attack within a decade, along with men who are 45 and over who smoke, are obese, have a family history of heart attack or are of South Asian origin – an estimated 8.8 million in the UK.”
If you are in your late 40’s or 50’s, then a heart health check is probably in order.
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