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One of the biggest problems with heart disease is that onset is so gradual that it can’t be seen or felt. True, we may be warned by our doctor that our blood pressure is a bit too high or our cholesterol is too high, but we tend to shrug that off at first because we still FEEL good. It’s not until an actual life threatening episode such as a heart attack takes place that many sufferers take action and though it’s never too late to improve your heart, it’s best to start the process BEFORE that event.

Here are a couple things you can do to protect yourself now:

Know Your Risk

Your risk depends on a lot of different factors- some controllable and some uncontrollable.

The uncontrollable factors include things like your age, gender, and genetics (family history). The risks of heart disease tend to increase with age; men tend to develop the disease sooner than women (due to the natural buffering effect that hormones present in a woman’s body before menopausal age); BUT women are more likely to die from a heart attack if one is had.

The controllable factors that put you at risk for heart disease include your diet, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking habit (if you have one), stress and diabetes (again, if you have that condition) which takes us to the second thing you can do to improve your heart:

Take Your Health into Your Hands

Prevention is your best weapon against heart disease. By eating a healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables and other heart healthy, low cholesterol foods, you decrease your risk dramatically.

In addition, adding exercise to your routine, even if it is 30 minutes of walking per day, can help keep your heart healthy and your diabetes (if you have it) in check, not to mention your weight and stress level.

Quit smoking. Smoking is one of the worst things you can do to your body as a whole, not just your heart, YOUR WHOLE BODY! So, kick that cigarette habit.

You only get to live this life once, so live it to the fullest now. Know your risk of developing heart disease and then take a proactive approach to preventing it.

Anemia (uh-NEE-me-eh) arises when the body has a lower than normal number of red blood cells. This condition also arises if the body’s red blood cells do not have enough hemoglobin (HEE-muh-glow-bin). Hemoglobin is an iron-rich protein that gives blood its red color and helps the body’s red blood cells to carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.

If you suffer from anemia, your body is not getting enough oxygen-rich blood. The result is that you may feel tired, sluggish, or have other symptoms. With a severe or long lasting case of anemia, the lack of oxygen in the blood can damage the heart, brain, and other organs of the body. Very severe anemia may even result in death.

Anemia has three main causes which include blood loss, lack of red blood cell production, or high rates of red blood cell destruction. These causes may be due to a number of diseases or disorders, conditions, or other factors.

A person who wants to build a good aerobic program should start doing a 15 minute aerobic exercise and then extending the time to thirty minutes and then even an hour after a certain period so that his body gets used to it.

A good aerobic program

There is no use tiring the body or creating some shock in the system by exposing it to a rigid aerobic exercise all at one time. A person should allow the body to get used to the rate with which his heart is beating by doing aerobic exercises. Start slow and then increase the phase everyday or every week depending on how much the body can take,

But doing aerobic exercises is not enough to become physically fit. A person has to build the strength of his muscles also by doing activities or exercises that focuses on certain muscles of the body to build strength in that area. It is also recommended that a person should do the muscle training exercises gradually to avoid getting injuries and tiring the body.