How to prevent Heart Problems?

Some of the risks for heart disease that you CAN change or prevent are:

• Not smoking. If you do smoke, quit.
• Controlling your cholesterol through diet, exercise, and medicines, if needed.
  
• Controlling high blood pressure through diet, exercise, and medicines, if needed.
  
• Controlling diabetes through diet, exercise, and medicines, if needed.
• Exercising at least 30 minutes a day
• Keeping to a healthy weight by eating healthy foods, eating less, and joining a weight loss program, if you need to lose weight
• Learning healthy ways to cope with stress through special classes or programs, or things like meditation or yoga
• Limiting how much alcohol you drink to 1 drink a day for women and 2 a day for men

Good nutrition is important to your heart health and will help control some of your risk factors.

• Choose a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
• Choose lean proteins, such as chicken, fish, beans and legumes.
• Choose low-fat dairy products, such as 1% milk and other low-fat items.
• Avoid sodium (salt) and fats found in fried foods, processed foods, and baked goods.
• Eat fewer animal products that contain cheese, cream, or eggs.
• Read labels, and stay away from "saturated fat" and anything that contains "partially-hydrogenated" or "hydrogenated" fats. These products are usually loaded with unhealthy fat

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