Is Your Heart At Risk?

Heart disease can affect us all women are just as much at risk as men.it can come virtually at any mature age,but the good news is that we can all take steps to reduce the chance of developing the disease.

We must control the known risk factors,most of us know about these in one way or another,I suppose some of us has one or more of them and maybe think that Yeah I know about that but apart from that I am just great,but that is not so.

The big risk factors that are up to us to control are high blood pressure , high blood cholesterol,and diabeties. Then of course there are the 2 big risk factors...Smoking and overweight. Here are some steps that we can all take to help prevent heart disease.

1/Stop Smoking(a very big risk factor),if you cant stop immediately keep trying.

2/Have your blood pressure checked regularly,Your Doc will tell you your healthy pressure.Reducing alcoholic beverages is a big help here.

3/Make sure your blood cholesterol is not high,again your doc will advise you.

4/Prevent or manage diabetes...Not so easy,but again the exercise and weight factor play a big part.

5/Aim for a healthy weight by losing weight and keeping it off,reduce excess fat

There are of course risk factors that we can't do anything about such as our age as we get older the risk increases and then there is family history,has your father or mother or maybe your brother been diagnosed with the disease at an early age. These risk factors make it all the more important for us to manage the risk factors that are within our scope to manage.

There are several programs and books available in the bookshops and the internet to help us with the risk factors of heart disease. TruthAboutAbs is one such program,it is founded and written by Mike Geary who is a certified nutrition specialist and certified personal trainer

I have written this article from personal experience and I hope that it may be a help to others that pose a risk factor in the dreaded heart desease

My name is Hilton Saint I am the auther of "Is Your Heart At Risk? There is a lot more very interesting information available by going to http://truthaboutabsreview.wordpress.com