Guidelines to prevent first-time heart strokes

Want to keep a healthy heart forever? Follow these guidelines which suggests the following things to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and strokes.

The most favorite suggestion given is to include Mediterranean or DASH diet in lifestyle. Eating those will ultimately help to reduce the heart stroke risks. As they are known as most heart friendly diet in the world. The diet will be even better if supplemented with nuts, as they are extremely beneficial to control cholesterol level in blood stream. They are asked to monitor Their blood pressure everyday at home, use a cuff device for that or go to hospitals regularly. Follow all possible ways to Control pre-hypertension and to prevent it from getting converted into high-blood pressure. Blood pressure can be maintained by doing physical activities, appropriate exercise, balanced diet and proper management of weight too.

Salt should not be taken more than required, the amount of salt intake should be reduced. Smoking is extremely injurious to health and apart from that it significantly enhances the heart attack risk. So give up smoking. It has even bad impact on those women who are on birth control pills. Smoking increases the risk of heart attack even more in those women who have migraine.

Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, poultry, and fish are included in Mediterranean or DASH-style diet. Both diets recommends reduced consumption of the food which contains saturated fat, as they are most likely to make your heart unhealthy. It recommends reduced intake of red meat too. The researchers also suggested to avoid second-hand cigarettes too.