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__**Prevention for heart disease**__ Heart disease is the one of leading cause of death for the world population, but there are numerous ways to prevent this disease. To start off, the five main preventions of lowering the possibilities of heart diseases are: Eating healthy foods, regular exercise,avoid heart problems (average blood pressure), adopt healthy lifestyles and the most important of all, and don’t smoke

1. Smoking  - In cigarette it contains more than 4800 chemicals. - Smokeless tobacco and low-tar cigarettes are exposure to heart disease. Many of these can give bad impact on your heart and blood vessels making them weaker by narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis), which can ultimately lead to a heart attack. - The nicotine in cigarette smoke makes your heart work harder by narrowing your blood vessels and increasing your heart rate and blood pressure. - Carbon monoxide in cigarette replaces the oxygen s in your blood. This increases your blood pressure and makes the heart to work. Not enough bloods are pump in to heart. - But when you are quit smoking dramatically you have and possibilities to get a heart disease.

2. Exercise  - Regular based exercise could bring the possibilities to get heart disease. When you keep a healthy weight it can bring downs more than 60% of risk. - It can cure the strained heart, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes - It also reduces stress, one of the factors of heart disease.

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3. <span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Eat healthy food <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Eating healthy food can protect your heart. Food such as low in fat cholesterol and salt. - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Food rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products that can help protect your heart. - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Low-fat sources of protein such as fish also can reduce your risk of heart disease. - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Fat such as saturated, polyunsaturated, mono-unsaturated and Trans fat increase the risk of coronary artery disease by raising blood cholesterol levels. Those saturated fats are beef, butter, cheese, milk, and coconut and palm oils. - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Omega-3 fatty are acids which is a type of polyunsaturated fat, which can decrease your risk of heart attack, protect against irregular heartbeats and lower blood pressure. - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Some fish are a good natural source of omega-3s.

4. <span style="font-size: 17pt; color: rgb(100,157,14); font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Maintain a healthy weight - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">In adulthood, your weight gain is mostly fat rather than muscle. This excess weight can lead to conditions that increase your chances of heart disease - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">You can calculate your body mass index (BMI) that considers your height and weight in determining whether you have a healthy or unhealthy percentage of body fat. - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Small reductions in weight can be benefit to you. Reducing your weight by just 10 percent can decrease your blood pressure, lower your blood cholesterol level and reduce your risk of diabetes.

5. <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Get regular health screenings - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">High blood pressure and high cholesterol can damage your heart and blood vessels. - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">But without testing for them, you probably won't know whether you have these conditions - <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Blood pressure. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Regular blood pressure screenings start in childhood. Adults should have their blood pressure checked at least every two years. - <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Cholesterol levels. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Adults should have their cholesterol measured at least once every five years. media type="custom" key="3620935"


 * QUIZ:** Which prevention do you think is the most effective, and which is the easiest to manage?