The heart is one of the most important parts of our body. It is very important to keep the heart healthy for a happy life. Problems like heart attack and stroke start occurring when the heart health deteriorates. Bad everyday lifestyle, unhealthy diet, lack of sleep, stress are the main reasons for the increase in heart diseases.
Here we will tell you about 5 such habits, by being careful about which you can keep your heart healthy.
1. Not getting enough sleep
Sleep is as important for our body as food and drink. Good sleep is extremely important for a healthy heart. Many studies have shown that sleeping less than 7 hours a day continuously increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. People who do not get enough sleep are at a higher risk of developing heart diseases.
2. Decrease in physical activity
Nowadays lifestyle is the main cause of heart disease. Lack of physical activity leads to obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, which causes heart disease. Therefore, make it a habit to do regular exercise in your daily routine. For this you can do walking, yoga, swimming, cycling.
3. Unhealthy eating habits
It is said that we are what we eat. Our food and drink are directly related to our heart. Unhealthy and processed foods are the enemies of our heart. It causes risks like obesity, blood pressure and high cholesterol.
4. Taking too much stress
In today’s era, stress has become a part of our life. But too much stress is not good for our heart health. Stress produces the stress hormone cortisol which increases diseases like cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar. To reduce stress, it is very important to exercise regularly and get proper sleep.
5. Not doing regular health checkups
Regular health checkup is very important for us. By getting a health checkup done, we can easily detect heart disease at an early stage. Which is very important for the prevention of heart related diseases. High BP, high cholesterol are the early heart related diseases. We can keep it under control with routine checkup.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)