At BayCare, we want to help you live a heart healthy lifestyle. Here are some great resources to learn more about heart and how to keep it healthy and some items to watch out for:
Living a healthy lifestyle can lower your risk for heart disease! Nutrition, physical activity and managing emotional health are all key pieces to living a heart-healthy lifestyle. Below are more resources to help you understand how lifestyle impacts your heart’s health.
A healthy diet is one way to help impact or lower your risk for heart disease. Here are some more resources to help you learn more about how nutrition impacts heart health.
Physical Activity and Your Heart
Physical activity and exercise are part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. Here’s some great information on exercise and your heart:
Dr. Kirksak Jay Poonkasem explains how your lifestyle influences and choices impact your heart health.
Understanding more about your risk factors for heart disease is an important part to helping you lower your risk. Here are some helpful resources:
Understanding Risks
Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls. The force is generated with each heartbeat as blood is pumped from the heart into the blood vessels. High blood pressure, or hypertension, directly increases the risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke. Learn more about blood pressure and its relationship with heart disease:
Cholesterol is a fat-like, waxy substance that can be found in all parts of your body. Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels is an essential part of good health. Learn more about high cholesterol.
Heart disease is a general term referring to a variety of diseases and conditions that affect a person’s heart. Learn more about what heart disease actually is, and its relationship with a heart attack:
