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For Your Healthy Heart
For Your Healthy Heart
Heart disease is the leading cause of women’s death in Vermont and nationwide. Behaviors that help lower a person’s risk of dying from heart disease include not smoking, staying at a healthy weight, eating less fat and high cholesterol foods, and exercising regularly.
Also, getting periodic blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening, controlling high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and getting counseling to stop smoking may reduce risks related to heart disease.
Early and regular screening is key to reducing the death rate from cancer and heart disease.
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- Keep blood pressure and cholesterol under control
- Keep body-mass index under 25
- Do not take vitamin supplements without consulting a doctor
- Include fruits, vegetables, whole grain and high-fibre foods and fish in your diet. The intake of salt and fat should be minimal.
- Exercise for at least 30 minutes on all days. If you need to lose weight increase the time to 60 to 90 minutes.
- Do not ignore the warning signs even if you are in your 20s or 30s.
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