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The Worst Foods for Heart Health

You’ve heard it time and again: Lifestyle factors like exercise, stress, smoking, alcohol, and sleep can affect your heart health, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Another major addition to that list is what you eat. Food can directly affect your cardiovascular function—by raising blood pressure or increasing your cholesterol level, for example. When you combine less-than-optimal food choices with factors like poor sleep quality and being sedentary, that tends to put a great deal of stress on the cardiovascular system.

‘Groundbreaking’: scientists develop patch that can repair
damaged hearts

Damaged hearts can literally be patched up to help them work, say researchers, in what has been hailed as a groundbreaking development for people with advanced heart failure. Heart failure affects more than 64 million people worldwide, with causes including heart attacks, high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. Scientists' breakthrough creates implantable patches composed of beating heart muscle that can help the organ contract.

Steps You Can Take if Heart Problems Run in Your Family

The worst thing you can do is to accept your family history and genetics as your destiny. You can change the course of your life and prevent heart disease no matter what your family history says. Patients can reclaim their heart health and enjoy active, thriving lives despite a worrisome family history. Here are four key steps you should take to lower your risk of heart disease. 1. Learn your risk factors: Your parents may have mentioned that heart disease runs in your family, but do you know all the details?

How a Healthy Breakfast Could Lower Your Cardiovascular
Disease Risk

Eating a substantial breakfast is important for heart health, but what you eat at that first meal of the day is also important. That’s the conclusion of a new study. Researchers examined the average energy intake of breakfast meals compared to a person’s total daily intake and the quality of the morning meals in terms of proteins, fats, fibers, and other nutrients. Experts recommend healthy breakfast choices such as oatmeal, avocado toast, fruit, and eggs.

Doing 40 Push-Ups In A Row Can Literally Save Your Life, Research From Harvard Shows

Cardiovascular disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2021, it accounted for 20.5 million deaths, equal to one-third of all deaths globally. Better physical health and fitness are well-known to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. Both help to lower important risk factors such as blood pressure, blood lipids, and obesity. Measuring general function and subsequent risk is often a costly and time-consuming process.

This Type of Exercise Cuts Women’s Heart Disease Risk in Half

If you struggle to get your steps in or to find enough time in the day to hit the gym, you’re in luck. New research finds that even a few short bursts of exercise may cut your heart disease risk in half. A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine used data from more than 22,000 people between 40 and 79 years old. Women who did at least 3.4 minutes of short bursts of vigorous activity per day were found
to be 45% less likely to have a major cardiovascular event.

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