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Exercise For a Healthy Heart

Did you know that physical inactivity and cardiovascular mortality are related. Being physically active and fit is obviously far more important and not just for good physique. It's a matter of your heart and a question of life and death. What else could be more important? The relation is simple and straight: patients who remain physically active after a first heart attack have a 60 per cent lower risk of having a second attack as compared to those who are not physically active.

Why is exercise important?

The benefits of exercise are numerous. Exercise actually helps to:
• Burn calories and reduce weight
• Maintain normal blood pressure
• Lower the cholesterol level
• Prepare the heart for stressful conditions and provides an emotional boost
• Keep diabetes away

All of the above eventually contribute in reducing the risk factor of heart attack. Here's how:
Exercise helps in weight reduction and maintaining your weight by burning unwanted calories. This helps in maintaining normal blood pressure, decreases the cholesterol level and lessens the risk of diabetes. It is these three demons that actually make your heart vulnerable to another attack and hamper the process of recovery and rehabilitation.

Exercise also prepares your heart to work under stressful conditions. When the heart is used to performing at an increased level, as it does during exercise, it can react more efficiently in an emergency. Further exercise leads to more efficient dilation of blood vessels, improving overall blood flow. Blood vessels that do not dilate regularly respond more slowly when called to action. So, exercise provides a dilation benefit naturally! Studies even shows that exercise provide an emotional boost and a sense of well-being.

A word of caution
The aim of your exercise program must be reconditioning and betterment and not straining the heart. That is why your exercise pattern and program should be strictly under the supervision of a doctor. Any exercise program must start with early leg exercises and increase gradually to include walking and jogging. These will also help lower your cholesterol levels. In the final analysis then say yes to exercise and help your heart keep ticking away.

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