Little Known Facts About Heart Disease

Ever since my brush with what I thought was a heart problem, I have been reading everything I can about heart disease. My new found interest hits close to… my heart. Yeah, I know, that was bad. Sorry. But seriously, that’s why I was thrilled when Amy Cook contacted me about writing a guest post. AND to add icing to the cake, she has written a fun and informative article about some little known heart disease facts. So grab your liquid of choice, kick your feet up and check it out.

Little Known Facts About Heart Disease

It’s the most important organ in our body, and when it stops, life stops too. All of us are aware of this, but unfortunately, this knowledge doesn’t seem to be enough to boost our efforts to ensure a healthy heart. Heart disease is the biggest killer in the world, and over 40 percent of deaths in the USA are attributed to cardiac arrests. But there are ways to keep your heart healthy and prevent disease and untimely death. When your body is healthy, your heart is healthy too. So if you take good care of your body by eating healthy food, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, and negating the effects of stress, your heart will be healthy, hearty and happy. Here are a few little-known facts about heart disease that will help you understand your heart better and take better care of it:

• Both women and men are prone to attacks, but each feels different symptoms during a heart attack. While men feel a searing pain and are more likely to know that it has something to do with their heart, women don’t feel such obvious signs – they have nausea, indigestion and shoulder pain, and this may cause them to delay seeking medical help.
• When it comes to your heart, laughter is indeed the best medicine. When you laugh and are happy, your heart is happy too.
• The next best thing to laughter for your heart is sex, that three letter word without which life would cease to exist. But get this – while it’s been proven that sex and regular orgasms do wonders for the male heart, for the female, the proof of the pudding has to be in the eating. In general, a healthy relationship makes for a good heart, and since sex is known to be a great stress buster, go ahead and have a good time – anything to boost your heart health.
• If you find that you lack the inclination to have sex or if you find it hard to complete the sexual act (low libido or erectile dysfunction), your heart is telling you that it’s time you cleaned your act up and started taking better care of it.
• There’s no safe smoking limit; cigarettes and tobacco are bad news for your heart. So if you’re a smoker, you’re not only destroying your lungs, you’re also hastening your heart to an early death.
• There is no direct relation between your heart and your blood pressure. So if your pressure is normal, that does not mean your heart is ok too, and vice versa.

The reason why heart disease is such a huge killer is that people fail to seek help at the right time when they experience minor chest aches or mild symptoms. The best way to stay safe from heart attacks is to take good care of your heart with a healthy diet, regular exercise and a stress and tobacco-free life, and by calling for help if you feel even the faintest sign of discomfort. As they say, it may be a false alarm, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

This guest post is contributed by Amy S. Cook, who writes on the topic of LVN to RN . Amy welcomes your comments at her email: amy11s.cook@gmail.com

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