9 Habits That Kill The Heart

Mark Velov Author: Mark Velov Time for reading: ~4 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
9 Habits That Kill The Heart

High triglycerides in the blood should not despair, there is still a chance to do something good for your heart and prevent the development of cardiovascular disease.

High triglycerides in the blood should not despair, there is still a chance to do something good for your heart and prevent the development of cardiovascular disease. To do this, you need to adjust some small details in your daily life. Do you suppose that with 9 seemingly insignificant habits we kill our heart. The good news, according to experts, is that they can easily change ...
Who are they?
 

1. Drink plenty of fluids during the day, but mostly sweet

Even if the tea is healthy, sweetened loses its strength. Unfortunately, in this category fall, in addition to soft drinks, and fruit juices, including fresh fruit. Sugar and fructose - fruit sugar - have the negative effect of affecting our triglyceride levels. The extra calories we consume in our daily lives harm our figure, but also our heart, due to this increase in harmful fats in the body.
Although sweeteners are also not a far healthier option, they are still better for heart health - they do not raise triglycerides. Otherwise, we do not mention anything new with the thesis that water is the best liquid for quenching thirst and ensuring water balance in the body. If you like the taste, just add to the glass a slice of lemon or lime, a leaf of fresh mint ...
 


2. You often eat "white food"

For too long, people have been deluded into believing that fat is the main and only person responsible for high blood cholesterol and a heart killer. In fact, all those white substances that we use in the kitchen and mainly satisfy our hunger, also harm the cardiovascular tissues. These are white sugar, white flour, starch, white rice and potatoes ... To reduce the triglycerides in your blood, focus on choosing whole grain products, replace not only white bread with its healthy equivalent, but also white rice with brown, instead of the traditional potatoes, diversify your menu with quinoa and barley dishes ...
 

3. Excess red meat

Red meat is one of those products for which the saying that the right amount is beneficial is true. Eating more meat products, especially in combination with dairy products such as butter and cheese, can not but affect the level of triglycerides in the blood.
The better option is to diversify your diet with another type of meat - chicken, turkey, rabbit, which are low in saturated fat. However, on certain days of the week, choose vegetarian dishes, but without replacing the meat with cream and delicacies.
 

4. Eat fish, but fried

It is commendable that you consume fish, but your fried action is completely meaningless, in terms of health benefits. Useful and necessary for the body and brain omega-3 are lost in this type of heat treatment. It is preferable to grill, bake or cook the fish. Choose oily types and provide yourself with two servings a week for a sharp mind and agility.
To provide yourself with useful fatty acids, do not forget to eat nuts - walnuts, for example.

 

 

5. You drink

Even a beer or a glass of red wine every day increases the concentration of harmful fat molecules in the blood. It is not said that you should give up a toast, just enter a weekly limit for alcohol use. If the two drinks a week do not help reduce total cholesterol, then consulting a doctor for new advice is more than desirable.
 

6. You love to eat, a lot

Unfortunately, overeating does not bring any benefits to our body, our self-esteem and our health, on the contrary, it "nourishes" the inflammatory processes in it and damages our blood vessels. To switch to a healthy diet, reduce the volume of portions - eat half the plate at home, in restaurants do not rush to the largest portions. Eat slowly to feel the onset of satiety in time and remember, we eat to provide the necessary energy to the body, not for better emotional sensations ...
 

7. Eat when you feel like it

For the working person it is a habit to miss a main meal, and for the Bulgarian "law" to swallow his daily menu at once for dinner ... It sounds unpleasant, but it is a fact. Skipping a main meal disrupts our metabolism, our body switches to another work regime, from which triglycerides simply remain in control of our blood vessels. In addition, it is clear that at one point we are overwhelmed by wolf hunger and then we eat for two ... There is a double effect, leading to obesity and diabetes ...
For our body there is nothing better than regulating nutrition at intervals in small portions, with three main meals and small snacks with fruit or a few nuts in between.
 

8. You work at a desk

Meeting is a mass problem, which is becoming more and more widespread. However, exercise is the surest method to "get rid" of triglycerides and lower blood sugar. Get in the habit every hour, to perform 5 minutes of movement - walk down the hall, go downstairs to a colleague or walk during lunch break before and after work. You only need 30 minutes of movement per day!
 

9. You smoke

No matter how many excuses our smoking has, they remain excuses. The bad thing is that tobacco smoke increases the risk of heart problems, and the combination of nicotine and high triglycerides is a deadly option for the heart ...
Our advice is - get rid of it! Smoking, frankly, is nothing more than an addiction and an unconscious demonstration of a lack of satisfaction or an imitation of an outdated pattern of behavior. Today the image of sexy and possessing a sharp mind is different ...
 

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