Five Useful Tips For Your Fitness

Nowadays people are getting busy. They never seem to have the time to stop and think about whether they are looking after their health properly. If you are the sort of person who never seems to have enough time then the following 5 quick health tips will help you.

Tip 1: Start the morning with a short 5 minute breathing exercise. You can do this standing or lying down. The key thing is to breathe deeply to the pit of your stomach to a count of 7. Then release quickly for a count of 4.

Tip 2: Following your breathing exercise drink a glass of warm filtered water and include a slice of lemon if you have it. This will help to cleanse and lubricate your digestive system. Have another glass of warm water in the evening time.

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Simple ways to prevent heart attack

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death and it is projected to remain so. If this trend continues, by 2015 an estimated 20 million people will die from cardiovascular disease, mainly heart attacks and strokes, the WHO states.
Physical inactivity is listed among the three major causes that trigger a heart attack or a stroke by the WHO, the other two being tobacco use and an unhealthy diet. We also know that people who live a sedentary life have more chances to suffer from other chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes type 2, arthritis, and osteoporosis. These health conditions not only contribute to cardiovascular disease but they also have a hand in contributing to lessen the quality of life of those people who suffer them.

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Beware Of Heart Attack

Heart attack (coronary heart) is now not only attacks the elderly but also young people. A heart attack is not coming suddenly before the attack because it appeared already there are signs that conveyed the body.

But these signs are often ignored. In fact, according to research from Midas in Milan, Italy in 2006, nearly 52 percent of patients with coronary heart disease do not experience chest pain or often referred to as silent ischemia.

Reporting from MayoClinic, Saturday (02/05/2011) Coronary heart disease is a disease caused by a narrowing or blockage of coronary arteries, the blood vessels that will drain blood to carry nutrients and oxygen needed to function of heart muscle to pump blood to the whole body.

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High Colesterol

In normal conditions cholesterol is a fat (lipid) produced by the liver and is essential for body functions. Cholesterol is naturally present in cell walls or membranes everywhere in the body, including brain, nerve, muscle, skin, liver, intestines, and heart. Under normal conditions cholesterol also serves as a builder and guardian of the cell membrane, filter incoming molecules and not into the cell, involved in the production of sex hormones, helps produce bile.

But if someone has too much cholesterol in the bloodstream, the excess can be stored in the arteries, including coronary heart, arteries to the brain, and arteries that supply blood to the legs. Ttherefore high cholesterol is not a disease, but people with high colesterol has the potential of developing the disease.

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Get rid of your bad habits

Everyone wants to live long and have a healthy body. But not a few people who actually plunges himself to die young by doing a bad habit.
Most people already realize that the bad things he did can trigger severe health conditions and lead to death. But, nonetheless still a lot of people still do it.
Some bad habits that can reduce a person's expectations to live longer or trigger a premature death is to consume drugs (narcotics and drugs), smoking at an early age, consuming alcohol, lack of physical activity at least less than two hours a week and have poor diet for example : eating less fruit and vegetables but eating lots of fat or sugar.
Researchers from Norway found that people who have behaviors that allow fatal triple died from the effects of drugs or due to heart disease or cancer.
"Habits like that could increase four-fold risk of death by various causes and can make a person look 12 years older than his age," said Dr. Elisabeth Kvaavik, University of Oslo, as quoted by LA Times on Sunday (24/07/2011 ).
Bad habits that persist can destroy a person's life, which can make it unhealthy, losing lots of money and cause of death at younger ages.

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Eat your food slowly

There are some parents who teach their children to eat fast. And it seems to have become one of the habits of almost everyone. But have you ever tried to eat much longer? Eat slowly turned out to not always look bad. In fact, a number of health benefits you can get by giving more time when you eat. Benefits include:

* Prevent overeating

Satiety is usually not directly come just like that. The more time you spend in eating, the more time for your brain or break the hunger signal. In fact, eating slowly can help you lose weight, or at least contribute to maintaining a healthy weight.

* More favors

Eating one bite at a time allows you to enjoy the food longer. To do so, take time to sit down, eat with people who are fun and focus on what you eat while avoiding distractions like television. Slow down mealtimes means keeping your health and enjoy the gastronomic pleasures.

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