Advice To Take
To Heart
NAPSI
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If you want to avoid being among the estimated
62 million people in America with cardiovascular disease –
or even if you're among their ranks already – take heart.
It can be a lot easier to achieve longevity with a little more common
sense.
Here are some simple things you can do to improve
your health:
• Stay in touch: Studies have shown, caring relationships
often extend lifespans dramatically.
• Exercise: Even walking for half an hour a day, three times
a week has tangible health benefits, helping maintain vigor, slow
bone loss, speed metabolism and delay diabetes.
• Volunteer: On average, volunteers live longer. Give back
and you may get back many years.
• Cope: Cortisol, the stress hormone, wears bodies out. Find
healthy ways to unwind from and reduce stress, be it mental exercises,
deep breathing, time alone or time with others.
• Use herbs: Season your life with spices instead of salt
or butter.
• Avoid transfats: Stay away from fried foods and cook with
monounsaturated oils such as olive or canola.
• Eat oats: Oats were the first food allowed to make health
claims by the FDA. Oats have lots of fiber and complex carbohydrates
or "smart carbs" which digest slowly, providing sustained
nutrition for hours. Oats are also high in protein and low in fat.
• Eat soy: Soy was the second food allowed to make health
claims by the FDA. Soy contains all eight of the essential amino
acids, is high in B vitamins, calcium and omega-3 fatty acids and
appears to slow bone loss and many forms of cancer.
• Add ready-to-go oat and soy based energy bars to your diet:
Packaged in pairs, the fruit-flavored bars provide more calcium
than an eight ounce glass of milk, 30 percent of the body's daily
protein requirements and 10 grams of fiber.
Called Heart Thrives, they contain no cholesterol
and are low in sugar. They're already receiving high marks from
many medical facilities and doctors. Compact as a cell phone, the
vegan meals fit easily inside a lunchbox, purse or briefcase.
For more information, visit the Web site HeartThrives.com
or call 800-830-0309. [NAPSI]
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