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HEART
BREATING DEEP
INTO YOUR HEART
One of the hottest current health topics is oxygen depletion. You can not have energy without oxygen, and you can not get oxygen if you do not breathe. Oxygen is required to help fuel every cell and system in your body, including your cardiovascular system. Shallow breathing leads to mental fatigue and tension. Hypertension is a serious heart issue.
Our harried lifestyle and hours hunched over a desk create stress on our bodies and tighten our chests. By altering our natural breathing habits. Our breathing has become shallow. It emanates from the chest instead of down in the diaphragm, restricting the amount of oxygen we inhale and the amount of carbon dioxide we exhale. Many of us don’t get the adequate amount of fresh oxygen into our bodies. Incorporating breathing exercises into your daily routine can help you get back your natural breathing pattern. The American Heart Association urges Americans to become better educated about CVD and its prevention. Would you know the symptoms of a heart attack or stroke if you were to have either? The American Heart Association raises funds for research and education, and posts some great resources on their website about vital topics, such as both stroke AND heart attack warning signs. If you find any of this information valuable, please pass along the love and share these articles with the people you care about.
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Did you know that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death in women over age 25, but only 21% of women view CVD as a threat?
Did you know that one in three adults has one or more types of CVD?
Did you know that given the rising costs of health care, the estimated cost of CVD alone has risen to $448.8 billion?
HYPERTENSION:
CONTROLLING
THE "SILENT KILLER"
An alarming one in three American adults has high blood pressure, known medically as hypertension. If you are among them, you can take steps today to protect yourself from the damage it causes. This report lays out a step-by-step lifestyle program you can use to lower your blood pressure, and also covers blood pressure monitoring and medications.
Available from Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School
TOMATOES ARE THE STAR
FOR HEART HEALTH
In keeping with the Doctrine of Signatures, the tomato is an ideal food for heart health. Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.
For more about tomatoes, click here.
ON LOVE. LOVING FOOD,
AND HEART HEALTH
When it comes to love, first love and honor yourself, and take good care of your own heart, and your own heart health. If you do this, you can be a better provider of love to those you love most deeply. A loving attitude, loving food, daily exercise, and deep breathing are your biggest weapons against the number one cause of death, cardiovascular disease.
A Loving Attitude – Long-standing emotional challenges lay beneath heart problems, according to Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life. People suffer from heart attacks because they have squeezed all the joy out of their hearts in favor of money or position. This is extremely insightful. Hay’s solution is to adapt a new thought pattern: “I bring joy back to the center of my heart. I express love to all.” This is an affirmation one needs to repeat to oneself and practice in order to instill a positive change.
Loving Food – Eat What You Love and Health Will Follow is both an entertaining and wise article written by Alan Roettinger, private chef to the stars for over 28 years. You may find the title of the article puzzling, but here’s a snippet:
“You think you love fried food, just like you thought you loved that handsome hunk or shapely girl in high school—you know, the one who was stuck on someone else and barely knew you existed. That’s called infatuation, which unlike love, can be totally one-sided, painfully one-sided. You give and give and nothing comes back but pain and misery, and still you keep at it because it hurts so good.” read more of this article at www.healthy.net
Daily Exercise – Walking is the easiest and most popular form of exercise, and there are all sorts of great walking programs, like Rhode Island Netwalking and ShapeUp RI.
ShapeUp
Participants will form teams and track their weight, exercise hours, and/or pedometer steps over a twelve-week period. Over the past four years, nearly 35,000 Rhode Islanders have participated in this successful program, losing thousands of pounds, walking millions of miles, and proving that teamwork is a powerful prescription for taking control of our health. To sign up a team go to www.shapeupri.org
