{"id":12853,"date":"2021-11-07T23:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T23:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ovadiahearthealth.com\/old-site\/?p=12853"},"modified":"2022-03-11T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T06:40:11","slug":"strategies-to-prevent-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ovadiahearthealth.com\/old-site\/2021\/11\/07\/strategies-to-prevent-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies to prevent heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the topic of improving cardiovascular health, there is a lot of conflicting information. Everywhere you look there are celebrities promoting supplements and fad diets, and companies advertising their heavily processed foods as \u2018healthy.\u2019 With nutrition barely playing a role in medical training, it\u2019s no surprise that opinions differ even among doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n

All these different voices trying to grab your attention make things more complex than they need to be. In reality, <\/span>increasing heart health can be simple<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The importance of heart disease prevention<\/b><\/h2>\n

In the United States alone, <\/span>one person dies of chronic heart disease every 36 seconds<\/span><\/a>. This is a shocking statistic, and makes it clear that we all need to work harder to improve our cardiovascular health.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when it comes to heart disease, like many other areas of illness, the medical community is focused on treatment with little attention directed to prevention. This is a shame because people need to be aware that <\/span>heart disease is preventable<\/span><\/a>, and a focus on cardiovascular training can go a long way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heart disease doesn\u2019t occur overnight. In fact, it can take more than a decade for poor health to cause a chronic illness, and our bodies try to warn us for a long time. While treatment can save lives, it isn\u2019t without its drawbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heart surgery can be life altering, <\/span>with a significant recovery period<\/span><\/a>. It can mean periods of no driving and flying, being unable to lift more than 10lbs, tiredness, and a lifetime of medication.<\/span><\/p>\n

The focus should be on heart disease prevention, with treatment there as a backup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strategies to increase heart health<\/b><\/h2>\n

People don’t get obese and develop unhealthy habits because they’re unaware of the risks, I know this from<\/span> my own experience<\/span><\/a>. We all know the importance of exercise, diet and stress management when it comes to our health, but the knowledge isn\u2019t always enough to create behavioral change. The difficulty comes in finding ways to break our unhealthy habits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are a number of strategies and techniques that you can use to develop and maintain habits that will improve cardiovascular health.<\/span><\/p>\n

Creating routines<\/b><\/p>\n

When people decide to get healthy, they often want to eliminate everything bad and become a whole new person overnight. This would be amazing if it worked but it\u2019s impractical and invariably results in failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, start by adding healthy habits into your daily routine. You don\u2019t have to work on everything at once, just pick one area you know you could improve on and make it a part of your day:<\/span><\/p>\n