Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Natural Old Home Remedies for Having a Healthy Heart

By Kris Bovay

Maintaining a healthy heart can be as easy as following a few simple tips and utilizing simple natural old home remedies. But keeping a healthy heart does require work, such as, keeping a good eating plan and exercising. You should also try to balance your lifestyle to help reduce any excess stress and try to enjoy life.

We all know that having a healthy heart means we have to: eat a healthy diet; do regular exercise; not smoke; minimize our stress - or learn how to handle it; and maintain a weight that is healthy for your age and body.

To minimize the risk of a heart attack, you would like your heart to be as efficient as possible in pumping blood through your body and at the same time, reducing the plaque within your arteries. It would also be good to know how to reduce our cholestorol naturally.

It's always very easy to talk about "what" we should do, but putting a plan in action is not always easy to do.

A Healthy Heart Rate defined.

Calculate your resting heart rate: to get started, try lying down and breathe normally, then count how many times your heart beats in a minute. Doing this first thing in the morning will produce the best results.

Your heart rate is affected by age, gender (men generally have a lower heart rate), physical fitness, stress, medical condition and/or medications. An average to good adult resting heart rate ranges from 60 to 80 times a minute at rest.

Physically fit adults have a lower heart rate. Over 80 is an indicator of poor heart performance - this could be for a number of reasons - see your doctor for more information.

Healthy Heart Tip: One easy way to start improving your heart rate is to exercise (seek doctor's approval first before starting any exercise plan). A good old time favorite natural home remedy to help lower your heart rate and increase physical fitness is to Walk!

Here are some easy tips to get your started on walking more frequently. Try walking your dog after work or in the morning. Start a walking group with your friends or partners. Walk to the store when you only need a few groceries. Park your car at work farther than usual and walk to work. Start counting your steps using a pedometer. On average, an adult should take about 1000 to 3000 steps every day, with a goal of reaching 10,000 steps, in a single day! If you start measuring your progress, it will help you focus on increasing your fitness level and lowering your heart rate.

What is Healthy Heart Eating?

Along with improving your physical fitness, you need to ensure that you are following a healthy heart eating menu plan. This means following what you heard so often throughout your childhood: "Eat Your Vegetables!" And fruits, and complex carbohydrates.

Another Natural Old Home Remedy: To get started on eating healthier, try examining your plate and see if it meets these requirements. You should have on your dinner plate: half full with an assortment of vegetables, a quarter of the plate with starch or grains (try healthy ones such as, barley, bulgar, cracked wheat, brown rice or wild rice) and the other quarter with protein. In today's society, we typically eat more protein, starches and refined grains than we should.

Natural Old Home Remedies and A Healthy Heart

Unfortunately we all know that it is important to maintain a healthy heart, which requires work and sometimes a change of lifestyle. But we seem to put other needs ahead of our own health, such as, children, work, friends and family.

We need to evaluate our priorities and make sure we are healthy enough to participate in activities and be with our family and friends for years to come.

Natural Old Home Remedies

Natural old home remedies and heart healthy tips that can help with heart and blood circulation needs:

Pepper/Vinegar/Mollasses Tonic

- Each day, take 1 apple cider vinegar tablet

- Each day, drink a glass of water with a teaspoon of Cayenne pepper added

- 1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses per day (can be mixed with the vinegar and the cayenne pepper OR 1 tablespoon organic honey instead of the molasses)

Green Tea

- How to lower cholesterol naturally? One way is to drink green tea regularly can be helpful in lowering bad cholesterol (LDL) levels and by reducing blood pressure

Properly Hydrate

- Make sure you are drinking at least 6 to 8 glasses of water every day

Low Dose Aspirin

- A single aspirin taken each day will first help thin your blood and secondly, help reduce the risk of a stroke by improving your blood flow

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