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What Makes Our Heart Suffer?

April 10, 2010

Here is something which we need to know:
Smoking: Smoking causes extra strain on the heart. Which results in blockage of arteries & when one or more of the arteries are completely blocked, a heart attack may occur.
High blood cholesterol: When there is too much cholesterol in your blood, it builds up in the walls of your arteries. The result is a heart attack.
High blood pressure: This increase in blood pressure can damage the blood vessels or very important organs. This can lead to strokes.
Diabetes: When you have diabetes, your blood sugar level is often much higher than it should be. Too much sugar in the blood can cause damage to blood vessels.
Obesity: Obesity is also responsible to several risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol level.
A Sedentary lifestyle: A lack of physical activity and exercise is harmful to your health both in the present and especially in the future.
Using illegal drugs, like cocaine or amphetamines: By using Cocaine speeds up the whole body speeds up, increasing the heart rate, blood pressure and breathing. Used improperly, amphetamines can effects sleeping, increase obesity.

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