Showing posts with label Exercise - A Natural Remedy for Good Heart Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exercise - A Natural Remedy for Good Heart Health. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2009

Can You Wear Your Heart Out Doing Exercise?

This is an old wives tale. Your heart is a muscle, and muscles thrive on exercise! The best natural remedy for preventing and improving heart disease is regular exercise.

Exercise expands the blood vessels around the heart. This can actually save your life, in the case of a blood clot making a beeline path for one of your coronary arteries.

People who have heart problems greatly benefit from exercise, as long as you don't exceed the recommended heart rate. This can be determined by your doctor through a stress test.

Having a sedentary lifestyle is much more dangerous to the health of your heart than exercise. When you sit, your heart gets out of shape just as the rest of your body does. Fat infiltrates the heart muscle and could actually interfere with electrical impulses.

So, instead of relying on prescription drugs to take care of your cardiovascular health, use a natural health remedy - exercise!