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Heart Health Using No-Drug or Low-Drug Strategy

People who invest in luxury cars or high-priced SUVs tend to take care of them, paying particular attention to filling up with high-quality gasoline. The very same people, however, can often be seen cruising along in their spiffy wheels while eating a cheap high-fat, high-calorie, heart-attack-in-a-paper bag hamburger. If they would be as careful with what they cram into their priceless and irreplaceable bodies as what they put in a car they’re only going to keep for two years, their hearts would probably last longer. And — some doctors believe — better “fuel” could even keep their hearts beating longer without eventually having to resort to expensive heart medications that often have unwanted side effects.

A wealth of research shows, in fact, that simple lifestyle changes can have enormous benefits, as in the case of an overweight man with high cholesterol and blood pressure treated at New York University’s Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular disease. He was put on a healthy diet with portion controls, and given an exercise plan. Within six months, his blood pressure and cholesterol returned to normal, he lost eleven pounds, and he decided to stay with the plan permanently because he felt so much better, not to mention the fact that he cut his risk of heart attack drastically.

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What can you do to help your heart without using medications? Here are five important strategies. Chances are you are following some of these guidelines already, but you may want to give them a close look because new research has provided several really new ideas that go beyond the usual list of “do’s and don’t’s”:

Feed your heart the food it needs. This means more than just eating less fat — a two-year study showed that a heart-healthy diet should be high in whole grains, produce, nuts, fish, and healthy fats. Further, you should eat more fiber, which besides helping to keep things “moving along” in your digestive system may also help to lower cholesterol. The goal of the diet is to reduce artery-damaging inflammation. Things to avoid are the usual: trans fats found in margarine, fast food, and many packaged foods. Also, cut back on salt, and drink moderately, if at all.

Get moving. Get as much aerobic exercise as you and your doctor think you can tolerate, which ideally would include brisk walking for thirty minutes five days a week. Try to include strength training several days a week, either using weights or resistance mechanisms. A new highly recommended exercise is ballroom dancing, which is good for your mind as well as your body. Think it’s for sissies? The next time you watch “Dancing With the Stars,” take a close look at the contestants’ chests heaving up and down when they come off the floor. (It can be really vigorous – remember Marie Osmond’s fainting spell.)

Get rid of your spare tire. Excess belly fat raises blood pressure, strains the heart, and — new research shows — actually produces substances that can cause inflammation of the arteries. Do whatever you have to do to cut back on eating, keeping in mind the heart-healthy tips given above. Don’t skip breakfast, eat slowly, stay away from fried foods, and start meals with a salad (with a low-fat, no trans fat dressing). An old phrase is coming back into vogue: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, and supper like a pauper.”

Quit tobacco. Get professional help with this one if necessary. This is a lifestyle change that can help big time. (But you know that.)

Chill out. It turns out that anger and stress can trigger hormones that can injure your heart. Both can raise blood pressure and make blood prone to clotting. Do what it takes to calm your anger and throw oil on the waters of stress. Religious and civic activities can help, as can meditation, yoga and – you guessed it – ballroom dancing. Always keep in the back of your mind the ancient Eastern saying, “There are a million ways to get from birth to death, and they all work.”