So, to make sure that we are able to keep a balance between foods that are good for your heart and the exercises that one should indulge in to keep the heart healthy, we have here a list. Check out our list of the top 3 workouts that help strengthen the heart.

Aerobics:

Fitness experts and even doctors recommend that 30 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise everyday of the week is brilliant when it comes to strengthening your heart to a great extent. Not only does aerobics help in keeping your heart fit and fine, but it also contributes a great deal in keeping your lungs healthy too.

If you are somehow not able to find enough time everyday, then try to indulge in some good aerobics/cardio as often as you can in a week. Also, to begin with, if you are not able to do a whole 30mins in one go try to divide the time in 10min or 15mins intervals. This way, you will be able to complete your workout and also not put stress on your body.

Aerobics/cardio helps amazingly to pump blood effectively to your heart and helps keep your circulatory system functioning well!

Just Walk:

Yup, it is as simple as that! The best part about walking is that one can easily fit the activity in one’s everyday routine in some way or the other. It also happens to be one of the safest and the most enjoyable forms of exercises there is to indulge in.

Why not just walk to work instead? Or better yet, remember the grocery store you always seem to take your car to? Ever thought about walking till there? Well, now might be a good time to do just that! Not think, just walk! The fact that walking helps in using the large muscles in a continuous and rhythmic manner makes it one of the most effective, yet the least exhausting of the 3 workouts.

Ride that Cycle:

When you cycle, you obviously notice that you subject your legs to a pumping motion. This very motion helps tremendously and provides quite a lot of exercise to the muscles in your heart. You don’t necessarily need to have a road bike to experience this benefit of cycling. You can easily get an exercise bike for your home and give your heart a great workout at home itself!

The fact is that having an exercise bike at home when the weather seems too cold or when the monsoon season is upon is a brilliant benefit since you are able to escape the vagaries of the weather and yet stay heart healthy! Sounds good now, doesn’t it?

Well, we hope that you are able to take time off from your routine to indulge in some of these exercises and stay heart healthy throughout! Happy Valentine’s Day y’all!

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Having the right kind of food and a brilliantly balanced diet can easily lessen our visits to the doctor. So in that sense and seeing that Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, we have here our list of the top 3 foods that you should indulge in this Valentine’s Day to ensure a healthy heart because what better occasion to talk about the heart than the day of love!!

Dark Chocolate: 

Let us start with something sinfully amazing now, shall we? Dark Chocolate? Yes, please! Do we really need another reason to love this gorgeousness more? Well, we might not need it, but here is another one all the same! Dark chocolate is brilliant when it comes to helping your heart, and by dark chocolate here we basically mean 60-70% dark chocolate!

Dark Chocolate helps to a great extent in reducing the occurrence of non-fatal strokes and heart attacks, especially in those people who are more susceptible to these problems. Apart from this, thanks to the flavonoids called polyphenols that are present in it, dark chocolate is also beneficial for people who suffer from blood pressure and inflammation. See, more reasons to love this amazing product even more! Yay!

Blueberries:

We might have written only blueberries’ name here, but we also mean to tell you that all those berries available out there, like strawberries and blackberries, are equally good for your heart health! Blueberries have been proven to be very useful in preventing and lowering the risk of heart attacks, quite effectively.

This can be credited to another flavonoid, known as anthocyanin that is present in all the berries. Anthocyanin is an antioxidant compound that favours the decrease in blood pressure and assists the dilation of the blood vessels. So do not forget to add this amazing fruit to your list of healthy food products!

Salmon:

Hands down, Salmon and the other fatty fish like mackerels and sardines, have to be one of the best if not THE best healthy heart foods available out there! Abundant in omega-3 fatty acids, something that has been proven to prevent a number of heart conditions, we cannot think of a better heart-healthy food for all you non-vegetarians out there to help protect your heart with!

Did you know that omega-3 fatty acids are exceptionally good when it comes to preventing and lowering the risk of plaque build-up in the arteries (known as atherosclerosis) and irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia)? Well, now you do! So what are you going to do about that?

Do try adding these ingredients and food products in your daily diet to ensure you have a healthy heart and are able to prevent any heart conditions that you might be susceptible to! Remember, food can act as a brilliant preventive for any kind of disease!

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