1. Eat dried fruit, especially Apricots. The pectin is great for your overall heart and also digestive health. I have had two doctors of completely different specialties specifically recommend dried apricots to me.
2. Chew one or two baby aspirin each day, and keep a bottle or two handy at home and your car. If you ever suspect heart attack symptoms, chew several immediately. Every friend who has had a heart attack tells me this was the first line of treatment they received in the E.R.
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(Metric: Approx. 32.5 ml per kg)
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Nutrition: buffet every day. Helps with finances, too
longer than non dog owners. Dogs are great.
Ken
No [illegal] drugs.
No booze.
No stress.
I do like the baby aspirin tip - once you're into the heart attack years, probably a good bet to keep them around.
Quote: FleaStiffAn apple a day keeps the doctor away... if your aim is good enough.
Nice!
Seriously, if limited to just one thing, it is to try to do some kind of cardiovascular exercise every day. Whatever gets your heart rate up, and preferably for at least 20 minutes. Do something you enjoy, and mix it up a bit, to prevent boredom. I mainly do running and swimming. Since I started exercising on a regular basis about six years ago I lost 20 pounds, kept it off, and feel much better.
Speaking of exercising, if anyone on the west side of town would like to get together for tennis on a weekly basis, let me know. I don't know how to measure my skill, but I'm strictly a recreational player. Better than most, but worse than most people who actually own a tennis outfit.
Quote: Mark Twain -- from “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World”She had run down and down and down, and had at last reached a point where medicines no longer had any helpful effect upon her. I said I knew I could put her upon her feet in a week. It brightened her up, it filled her with hope, and she said she would do everything I told her to do. So I said she must stop swearing and drinking, and smoking and eating for four days, and then she would be all right again.
And it would have happened just so, I know it; but she said she could not stop swearing, and smoking and drinking, because she had never done those things. So there it was. She had neglected her habits, and hadn’t any. Now that they would have come good, there were none in stock. She had nothing to fall back on. She was a sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw overboard and lighten ship withal.
Why, even one or two little bad habits could have saved her, but she was just a moral pauper. When she could have acquired them she was dissuaded by her parents, who were ignorant people though reared in the best society, and it was too late to begin now. It seemed such a pity; but there was no help for it. These things ought to be attended to while a person is young; otherwise, when age and disease come, there is nothing effectual to fight them with.
Quote: DocI am reminded of the words of Mark Twain
In the late 19th century smoking and drinking were
reviled by polite society, and enjoyed by Mark Twain.
On the speaking tours that he took up to make money
in the last 15 years of his life, Twain loved to rub his
bad habits in the audiences noses.
Cigarette smoking is one of those habits that was created
by advertising. The public wasn't demanding manufactured
cigarettes, the tobacco companies created a demand for
them.
Mark
Quote: marksolbergYour heart has a finite amount of beats in it. Don't waste them by doing things that increase your heart rate like exercise.
Mark
There is an argument for this way of thinking.
Before modern labor saving devices, people
worked a lot harder than they do now and they
certainly didn't live longer because of it. Many
people worked themselves to death physically.
Quote: EvenBobThere is an argument for this way of thinking.
I think, and would hope, the OP was joking.
Quote: WizardI think, and would hope, the OP was joking.
The human mind can rationalize anything. How else do you explain religion?
Mark
Well, how about this, from today's comics:Quote: marksolbergThe human mind can rationalize anything. How else do you explain religion?
Pearls Before Swine