The document outlines 10 essential tips for maintaining a healthy heart, including quitting smoking, reducing salt intake, adopting a balanced diet, moderating alcohol consumption, and engaging in regular exercise. It emphasizes the importance of managing weight, monitoring blood pressure and cholesterol levels, managing stress, understanding family medical history, and recognizing early signs of heart issues. These strategies aim to prevent heart disease and promote overall cardiovascular health.

1. 10 Tips for a Healthy Heart
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2. 10 Tips for a Healthy Heart
There are many steps people can take to try to prevent
heart disease. You can start by concentrating on key
lifestyle areas such as eating, exercise,
smoking and drinking
Here are 10 top tips for a healthy heart
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3. 1 Stop Smoking
Giving up smoking is the single most important thing a
person can do to live longer. If you are a smoker, you are
twice as likely to have a heart attack than a non-
smoker.
With public smoking bans recently introduced, there has never
been a better time to give up smoking
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4. 2 Cut Down on Salts
Too much salt can cause high blood pressure, which increases
the risk of developing coronary heart disease. Avoid
foods like crisps, salted nuts, canned and packet soups and sauces,
pizzas.
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5. 3 Watch your Diet
A healthy diet can help to reduce the risk of developing
heart disease, and can also help increase the chances
of survival after a heart attack. You should try to have a
balanced diet, containing plenty of fresh fruit and
vegetables, fish, starchy foods such as wholegrain
bread, pasta and rice.
Avoid foods like biscuits, cakes, pastries and dairy
products that are high in saturated fats and
sugar
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6. 4 Monitor your Alcohol
Too much alcohol can damage the heart muscle, increase
blood pressure and also lead to weight gain. Binge
drinking will increase your risk of having a heart attack, so
you should aim to limit your intake.
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7. 5 Get Active
The heart is amuscle and it needs exercise to keep fit so
that it can pump blood efficiently round your body with each
30 minutes of
heart beat. You should aim for
moderate intensity exercise a day. If this seems too
daunting, start off gently and build up gradually.
Keeping fit not only benefits your physical health - it improves
your mental health and wellbeing too
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8. 6 Manage your Weight
The number of people who are overweight is rising fast -
already more than half of the adult population is overweight or
obese. Carrying a lot of extra weight can greatly affect your
health and increases the risk of life-threatening conditions such
as coronary heart disease and diabetes.
If you are overweight or obese, start by making small, but
healthy changes to what you eat, and try to become more active
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9. 7 Check your Blood and Cholesterol levels
The higher your blood pressure , the shorter your life
expectancy. People with high blood pressure run a higher risk of
having a stroke or a heart attack. High levels of cholesterol in the
blood - produced by the liver from saturated fats - can lead to
fatty deposits in your coronary arteries that increase your risk of
coronary heart disease.
You can help lower your cholesterol level by
exercising and eating high-fibre foods such as porridge, beans,
pulses, lentils, nuts, fruits and vegetables
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10. 8 Manage your Stress Levels
Stress is one of the prime factors for coronary heart disease.
It is not visible, but can cause more damage than
several of the other factors put together.
Take it easy, you have only one life.. Make the most of it
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11. 9 Check your Family History
close relative
If a has developed coronary heart
disease, blood pressure, diabetes in the past, then you could be
at risk too
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12. 10 Recognize early signs of coronary heart disease
Tightness or discomfort in the chest, neck, arm or stomach
which comes on when you exert yourself but goes away with
rest may be the first sign of angina, which can lead
to a heart attack if left untreated.
Do not ignore messages that your body is giving you
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