Love Your Heart - 15 Ways You Can Keep it Healthy

Let's understand the function of our heart and how to keep it healthy! Our heart is a muscular organ, located just behind and slightly left of the breast bone. It pumps blood through the network of arteries and veins called the cardiovascular system.

The heart has four chambers:

1. The right atrium receives blood from the veins and pumps it to the right ventricle.
2. The right ventricle receives blood from the right atrium and pumps it to the lungs, where it is loaded with oxygen.
3. The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it to the left ventricle.
4. The left ventricle (the strongest chamber) pumps oxygen rich blood to the rest of the body. The left ventricle’s vigorous contractions create our blood pressure. The foods you eat, the amount of activity you do as well as your lifestyle can dramatically affect the overall health of your heart along with many other tissues that make up your cardiovascular system. Unhealthy eating habits can lead to various Heart Disorders.

Let’s look at the ways to keep it healthy!

1. Healthy mind healthy body, so it is important that you take peaceful 7 to 8 hours of sleep.
2. Keep yourself out of stress, involve yourself in regular some stress buster activities.
3. Keep a check on your Blood Pressure.
4. Cut your saturated fat intake and make an effort to check the ingredients of your intake. Too much of bad cholesterol can clog the heart and arteries with dangerous plaque.
5. Keep a control on your blood sugar level.
6. Exercise at least 30 minutes a day, if you're doing nothing, do something and if you're doing something, do extra.
7. Eat more fruit and less fruit juice.
8. Control obesity and keep your body mass index(BMI) in controlled level to be fit.
9. Quit smoking as soon as you can and get yourself into having something else that you like at regular intervals, which is healthy.
10. Cut your calorie intake and cut your sugar sweetened soda and keep check on all your sweet temptations.
11. Eat lot of Seafood.
12. Find ways to keep yourself happy and out of worries, be with lively people.
13. Breathe slowly and deeply for a few minutes a day.
14. Get yourself into Yoga.
15. Keep a regular check of your hearth health under your doctor’s guidance. 

Leave aside all your worries! Have a Healthy Heart and a Healthy Life!

In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!