You know your heart powers your body! Do you know that the things you do affect how well your heart powers your body?

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What can you do? You can start by focusing on four lifestyle habits:

• Food:

o Eat more heart healthy foods like fruits and vegetables.

o Use heart healthy oils to cook (eg olive oil) and be sure to use small amounts of even that.

o Limit your intake of salt, sugar and processed foods

• Exercise:

o Create opportunities to exercise and be more active.

o Try and get a minimum of 150 minutes of exercise weekly

o Focus on activities that you love eg dancing, walking, jogging etc

o Find innovative ways to get more exercise

Dance or perform jumping jacks during commercial breaks while watching your favourite TV shows

Pack your car a little farther from your office and walk the rest of the way

Or stop a bus stop away from your usual and walk the rest of the way

Have standing meetings at work

While at work, get up every 1 hour and stretch

Join a dancing class

Get up and walk around every time you’re receiving a call

Put your phone box a little farther away from you in the office so that you have to get up to pick it up when it rings

• Smoking: Quit smoking! There’s no easy way of saying this. There’s no recommended amount of smoking per day. It’s just plain bad for you! Remember that second-hand smoke is just as bad for the people around. For tips on how to go about this, please click on this link: https://chatwithdrketch.com/2015/04/08/daily-health-tips-i-want-hep-to-quit-smoking/

• Alcohol: Reduce your consumption of alcohol and if you don’t drink, please don’t start! For more help with this, please click on this link https://chatwithdrketch.com/2013/12/07/daily-health-tips-alcoholism/

Ensure that your work, sleep and play and environments encourage healthy eating, exercise and discourage smoking and limits alcohol.

Have a great weekend, everyone 😀