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Clogged Arteries - How Your Phone Causes Heart Attack
Everyone
loves their phone, and most of us couldn’t live without them.
But
new research paints a grim health picture if you use them the wrong way.
Especially for our heart.
It’s
time to look at the dos and don’ts of smartphone usage—before it’s too late.
The
study, presented at the American College of Cardiology 2019 Latin America
Conference was led by researchers at the Simón Bolívar University in
Barranquilla, Colombia.
They
analyzed the smartphone habits and health of 1,060 health sciences faculty
students at the university. The 700 males in the study averaged 20 years of
age, and the 360 females averaged 19 years of age.
For
the girls, there was a 63.9 percent that they were overweight and a 57.4
percent chance that they were obese. For the boys, that likelihood was 36.1
percent for being overweight and 42.6 percent for obesity.
26
percent of the subjects that were overweight and 4.6 percent who were obese
used their smartphones for more than five hours per day, and here’s the
headline figure: their risk for being obese increased by 43 percent!
The
connection here seems to be that students who spent more time on their devices
were around twice as likely as their peers were to eat fast food, drink sugary
sodas, and not do enough exercise.
This
seems really surprising when you remember that the subjects were health
sciences students, people who should have been more aware than most about
maintaining good health.
And
worst of all, being overweight has some dire consequences such as cholesterol plaque buildup in the arteries
and high blood pressure.
So
regardless of your phone habits, if you’re concerned about your cardiovascular health:
And if you have high blood pressure, discover how 3 easy exercises drop blood pressure below 120/80 … starting today…
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Clogged Arteries - Best Exercise for Heart Health Revealed (new study)
Being
obese is the biggest risk factor for heart disease, partly because obese people
have more fat hugging their hearts. But even slim people can have fat around
their heart.
Exercise
helps in the war on fat, but what kind of exercise is best for reducing heart
fat?
JAMA
Cardiology has just published a study that answers this question.
The
fat around your heart can appear in one of two places. Epicardial fat appears
in the tissue closest to your heart, while pericardial fat shows up in the
cavity around your heart.
Both
types are bad for you, but more time has been spent studying epicardial fat, so
we know it’s a major risk factor for atherosclerosis, insulin resistance, high fasting glucose, and abdominal fat
deposits, all of which are extremely unhealthy.
Pericardial
fat is less well studied, but we know that it definitely contributes to
atherosclerosis (which is when your arteries narrow, restricting and even
cutting off blood flow).
The
authors of the new study decided to find out whether endurance or resistance
exercise was as good at reducing these harmful types of fat, as they were at reducing abdominal fat.
They
split their 50 participants into three groups: a group that performed
high-intensity interval endurance training three times a week for 45 minutes
each, a group that performed resistance training three times a week for 45
minutes each, and a group that performed no exercise at all.
The
endurance training consisted of exercise on a stationary bicycle, while the
resistance group had to do weight training with medium-heavy weights.
Before
the study, all the participants were inactive with a high body-mass index score
and abdominal fat.
The
scientists measured their cardiac fat via MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
during and after the study.
The
endurance and resistance exercise groups reduced their epicardial fat by eight
and nine grams respectively by the end of the study. The no-exercise group saw
no changes.
The
resistance exercise group reduced their pericardial fat by 34 grams, while the
other two groups saw no change.
That’s
an impressive result. It means that you should be doing some sort of exercise
on a regular basis at the very least, but you shouldn’t just limit yourself to
the usual ones like running and cycling.
Endurance
work will improve your cardiorespiratory fitness, but it won’t make you
stronger.
In
comparison, resistance training will improve both, and now you know that it
will reduce your dangerous heart fat too. We’d call that a pretty good return
on your effort!
The
best approach is to give both these types of exercise some room in your
training routine to keep you fit and to keep your heart healthy.
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Clogged Arteries - The Tasty Treat that Cuts Blood Pressure and Cholesterol
Bad
food tastes good. That’s part of the reason why it can be so difficult to beat
conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol. It’s unfortunate that
your cardiovascular health is not best friends
with many of the sweet things in this world.
But
if you do have a sweet tooth then we have some good news for you, because there
is one fabulous feelgood food that tastes great and can still help your health.
It
can help make your heart healthier, reduce your blood pressure, cut your bad cholesterol, ramp up your
brain activity and even pep up your love life.
Well,
it shouldn’t be too surprising that chocolate is healthy given that it starts
life as cocoa beans, which are loaded with flavanol. Flavanol is an
antioxidant, one of those Swiss army knives of health that stops blood clots, boosts blood flow to the
heart and brain, reduces high blood pressure, and lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke.
But
it’s not the only antioxidant that cocoa beans are choc full of. There are even
more of these helpful substances which are so beneficial to vascular health,
and which also take the fight to free radicals—the harmful molecules which
contribute to oxidation in the body.
Increased
oxidation opens the way for LDL cholesterol—the bad sort—to start forming plaque on the arterial walls. As a
result, they become narrower and more rigid, which is a perfect recipe for heart attack and stroke.
There
are many things in the environment that can cause damage to the body, like
pollution, cigarette smoke, and even too much sunlight, and antioxidants help
to mop up the effects of all of them, before they can do their damage.
But
it isn’t just the free radicals that help put chocolate on a par with health
foods. There’s also the fat content. The majority of fat in chocolate comes
from cocoa butter, which contains oleic, palmitic and stearic fatty acids (and
you’ll find Oleic acid in olive oil too). It’s monounsaturated, which means it
is heart-healthy and a proven blood pressure reducer.
The
palmitic and stearic fatty acids are saturated fats, but still, research has
found that they don’t hurt your cholesterol levels, which is odd but
welcome news!
It’s
now well established that chocolate can lower stress levels and improve a person’s
sense of well-being and happiness. This is probably down to the fact that it’s
great at boosting the production of endorphins, the brain’s natural happiness
chemicals. And you also get serotonin in the mix, the body’s own
antidepressant, too.
It’s
worth mentioning that the brain releases these happiness chemicals when we’re
in love, so when people say that they love chocolate, they really do mean it.
The
only fly in the ointment with chocolate is the high sugar content. That’s why
we’d recommend dark chocolate over milk chocolate every time. Choose the dark
stuff with at least 65% cocoa content. Current research leads us to believe
that 3 ounces (85 grams) of chocolate a day will give you all of the health
benefits without the sugar rush.
To
get more ideas to clear out your 93% clogged arteries, watch these 2 videos
below:
As good as chocolate is for you, it can’t handle the job of
lowering your blood pressure all on its own. For that you’re going to need something else, and these 3 simple exercises are the answer to lowering your blood pressure down to 120/80 right away…
This post is from the
Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy Program. It was created by Scott Davis. Because
he once suffered from high cholesterol, so much so that he even had a severe
heart attack. This is what essentially led him to finding healthier alternatives
to conventional medication. Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy is a
unique online program that provides you with all the information you need to
regain control of your cholesterol levels and health, as a whole.
