How to Prevent a Heart Attack in Women with Just 3 Changes
Taking care of your heart
Stunning as it is Heart Attack in Women claims more lives than in men. But most heart disease can be prevented by simple changes to lifestyle.
Most people – me included – think heart attacks are a killer mainly in men – but the truth is, its women who are in more danger! And if you’re over fifty and overweight and on high-cholesterol drugs then you’ll be very interested in what I’m about to share.
Despite the news women are more at risk than men there are things women can do to protect their heart and keep it young.
These include a healthy diet, exercise and supplements.
I’m a firm believer of a little bit at a time – that is we can change a little bit at a time without it seeming overwhelming and the goal unreachable. Your target should not be to lose 50lbs in the next 3 months and participate in a triathlon in 4 months. Make your changes in small incremental steps and you’re more likely to be successful because it’ll be easier – at least at the start. I’m here today with some recommendations to get you rolling.
Remember… a walk of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Look at this as your first step.
Diet to a Healthy Heart:
Women diet more than men – eating for health and an attractive physique is important to many women. But dieting for a healthy heart has nothing to do with Weight Watchers® or Jenny Craig® – these just haven’t permanently worked for most women who tried them.
Diet to a healthy heart for a woman is about eating good protein and healthy fats. Yes, you heard right – fats. But before you call me irresponsible, the fats I’m talking about are natural and unsaturated fats – avoid trans fats, especially as you age. Trans fats can be found in a lot of processed foods and can increase a woman’s risk of heart disease by as much as 50%.
Eating a high protein diet rich in low-glycemic foods will also help you eat towards a healthy heart. If you’re new to glycemic foods then you should avoid foods with a glycemic index value above 40. You can get the GI value for many common foods here.
Exercise to Prevent Heart Disease:
Get a healthy heart
Exercising is an important component of avoiding heart disease and heart attacks. Many women who exercise for weight loss look at it as a job to be endured rather than enjoyed.
Because of this they get wrapped up in the long duration aerobic and gym workouts advocated by fitness trainers and the TV advertised programs. But this is not needed unless you’re training for a long distance race or sport event.
Slow and long duration workouts don’t help people lose weight, and over time can actually weaken your heart rather than strengthen it by putting undue stress over sustained periods of times.
The goal of any exercise should be to make your heart more efficient in pumping blood around your body, and this can be achieved by short intense bursts of interval exercise and workout duration between 10 – 20 minutes.
Interval exercises can be adapted from many activities such as swimming, dancing, rope jumping, running, and many others.
Interval exercise increases the capacity of your heart by teaching it to work harder for brief periods so it’s able to absorb stress. In addition interval training works well at improving muscle tone without creating the bulky look women want to avoid. Discover more information on an interval training program to help prevent heart disease here.
Supplements that Bless Your Heart:
To keep your heart young and healthy you need to be supplying it with the right nutrients. Even with your new diet of healthy protein, natural fats, and good carbohydrates as a woman you may still not be getting enough of the valuable nutrients you need.
If you’re postmenopausal you should be taking vitamin C, and whatever your age makes sure you’re getting enough of vitamins B12, B6 and eating foods high in alpha-linolenic acid. Nutrients such as Coenzyme Q10, L-carnitine, L-arginine and other antioxidants are lacking in most of the readily available common foods.
Taking supplements is a quick and effective method of ensuring you get the nutrients your body needs.
If you haven’t already formed a supplement plan then I urge you to do so. Supplements give your heart and body the resources it needs to stay healthy and fit. You can find out more details on what supplements you may need here.
The Doctor’s Heart Cure:
If this information has interested you and you’d like to learn more the Doctor’s Heart Cure is an inexpensive program for both women and men and covers the topic of avoiding heart disease. But you’ll receive some interesting bonuses one of which is a special report providing a lot more details about how to prevent a heart attack in women.
It’s time to take your first step on that journey.
Erika Slater, CH
Free At Last Hypnosis
www.smoke-free-at-last.com
erika@smoke-free-at-last.com
508 529 2490
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