The heart is a vital organ
that indicate the life of human being. When the heart stop beating,
as well as human life would cease. Nobody wants to ruin their own heart,
however people often do habits that can damage their heart slowly.
Some of the causes of heart
disease is inevitable such as genetic or congenital disease. But there are some
habits can damage your heart and can be changed in order
to maintain a healthy heart. Here are some things that can damage the
heart and should be changed
1. Too much
sitting
You may hear that “Sitting as dangerous as
smoking”. This phrase is true. Too much sitting in a day is very bad for
health. People who are inactive or doing sedentary lifestyle has twice as
likely to have heart disease than people who are more active activity. Too
often sitting and lack of exercise can damage the heart slowly. It will raise
cardiac risk factors such as high blood pressure and cholesterol. You don’t
have to do a kind of sport in a day, just make your body move active every day.
How to change it: do some
minor activity. For example, more frequent standing and walking in the office
or home, don’t be too much sitting. Do at least 30 minutes of light to moderate
exercise every day.
2. Ignoring
heart disease symptoms
You have to understand
heart disease symptoms such as chest discomfort, epigastric pain, shortness of
breath, easy fatigue, etc. Don’t ignore these symptoms. You may afraid if you
have heart problem. But it would be better to consult and get treatment as soon
as possible rather than ignore it and wait for the disease getting
worse.
How to change it: If you have symptoms of heart
disease, see your doctor immediately and consult. The earlier is better.
3. Delaying
medical check up
Many people are often put off doing their check
up should do regularly. Don’t procrastinate your medical check-up despite you
don’t have time. Because what is at stake is not your money but our own
health. So always do a routine check-up to see your overall health.
How to change it: Make appointment with your
doctor and do overall check-up. You also make a regular schedule once in three
months or once a month is better. Don’t just check the heart but also the
others such as blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar level, uric
acid, ureum creatinin level, and liver function. If you do
medical check-up regularly, you can maintain you health easily
because you will more vigilant than usual.
4. Excess
fat in the abdomen
Everybody knows that being overweight is a risk
factor for heart disease, especially if it excess fat in the belly. People who
have too much fat in the belly is more likely to have heart disease. The first
impact is imbalance lipid and glucose metabolism which disturb insulin
production.
How to change it: Do a diet. You can consult to a doctor or a nutritionist to
find out the best way to lose weight. Only losing 5 – 10 % of your body weight
has been very meaningful to reduce the risk of heart disease.
5. Smoking
When you smoke a pack of cigarettes every day,
unconsciously you have increased risk of heart disease two-fold compared
with people who never smoke. Many hazardous chemical substances carried in the
bloodstream and can generate atherosclerosis process, your coronary arteries
will damage slowly.
How to change it: The only way is to stop smoking. Quitting smoking is difficult but
it will make your heart healthier and lower your risk of heart disease
immediately.
Heart disease even heart
attack can appear suddenly. The fact that the disease came slowly
through the bad habit that you have been doing in a long time. Knowing your bad habits and
change it immediately will help to reduce the risk of heart attack.
