02 Jan 5 Ways to Promote a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
Incorporate these five ways to protect your heart with a heart-healthy lifestyle. Protecting your heart requires proactive steps to prevent the leading cause of death in the United States–heart disease. Key contributors to heart disease are diets high in salt, sugar, and unhealthy fats coupled with a lack of exercise. After 50 years of age, the heart requires proactive care to increase its lifespan. Learn how to prevent heart attacks, stroke, angina and high blood pressure by incorporating these natural methods for protecting your heart. The American Heart Association works hard to promote heart-healthy habits for families and communities. In conjunction with their efforts, our team at Mile High Spine & Pain Center wants to help educate our patients on heart-healthy living. The following suggestions can help with protecting your heart now and into the future. The American Heart Association focuses on 5 main areas for heart-healthy living: healthy eating, physical activity, weight management, stress management, and tobacco elimination. Our clinic offers patient services in each of these 5 areas to help promote heart-healthy living.
Healthy Eating
A healthy diet and lifestyle are the best weapons you can employ to fight against the nation’s leading killer–heart disease. By choosing to make mindful, smart choices you can greatly impact the health of your heart and your overall health. Our team at Mile High Spine & Pain Center can help you discover how heart-healthy your current diet is through a nutritional assessment and food intolerance test. Heart-healthy grocery shopping is a great place to start to help make sure your heart is getting the nutrition it needs.
Physical Activity
Heart health is directly linked to active lifestyles. Exercise helps lower your blood pressure and your cholesterol. To optimize your cardiovascular health benefits, it is suggested that you practice moderate exercise at least 150 minutes per week. Strive for thirty minutes a day, five times a week for better heart health. If you are currently injured, or unable to engage in certain levels of exercise, our clinic also offers vibration exercises that can be customized for your needs.
Weight Management
Nearly 70% of American adults are either overweight or obese. Being obese puts you at a higher risk for health problems such as heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes and more. Understanding what your healthy weight is–and how to obtain and maintain it can be hard to do on your own. We can help answer your questions about your current weight and help you make goals for the future.
Stress Management
The way you handle and manage the stress you experience on a daily basis can greatly determine your short-term and long-term health. Stress has been linked to behaviors and factors that can increase your risk of heart disease–high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, tobacco use, overeating and physical inactivity. Some methods people choose to deal with stress can sabotage the health of their hearts. Resorting to alcohol and tobacco use can increase blood pressure and permanently damage artery walls.
Tobacco Elimination
The American Heart Association has been urging smokers to quit for decades. Smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death in our country. Tobacco users increase their risk for developing many chronic disorders, including atherosclerosis — the buildup of fatty substances in the arteries — which can lead to coronary heart disease and stroke.
Strive for Better Health this Year!
Mile High Spine & Pain Center providers are dedicated to helping you feel better than you ever have before. During your initial consultation, we work with you to develop treatment plans to address areas of current weakness or injury. We can make you stronger and more resistant to injuries or setbacks going forward through prevention planning and education. Physical issues and injuries can temporarily decrease your desired activity levels, but with our integrated physical medicine team, you have an arsenal of tools to help return to prior performance–and better!
Call for a Heart-Healthy Consultation
Mile High Spine & Pain Center provides you with all the advantages of integrated physical medicine so you can benefit from a multidisciplinary approach for your treatment needs. Choose today to become a patient of a clinic that will offer you more precise, customized, targeted care all under one roof. Our clinic provides patients in the Westminster and Broomfield area with a wide range of services in one convenient, comfortable office. Contact us to schedule an appointment with our spine, nerve, and physical medicine specialists today. Call (720) 507-0080 today to schedule your free consultation!