How to look

after your heart?

 Health for people should be

the number one priority.

There are things we can change to have a healthy heart and there
are things we can’t change:

Things we can change:

Things we can’t change:
1. Bad habits (like smoking)
1. Family history of heart problems
2. High blood pressure
2. Gender
3. Being overweight
3. Age
4. Being physically inactive
5. Having high blood cholesterol
6. Stress
There are 3 main things you need to do, to keep your heart healthy:

1. Exercise
2. Eat a healthy and a balanced diet.
3. Have a good night sleep and relax more.

Physical, mental, emotional categories are

the most important for any human to stay
healthy.
 Exercise
• Everyone nowadays tend to not do as much of exercising as 40
minutes a day.
• If you have a job, for example in an office, where you sit on a
chair for the whole day, it’s very unhealthy. So for that reason
it is advised to take breaks between work and do some easy
exercises.
• Sports, dances should be a part of our every day life.
Healthy and balanced diet
• A healthy diet is when you eat different types of food that
provides your body with different vitamins and nutrients.
• The food pyramid shows
that we need to eat a lot of
grains, vegetables and fruits,
and less of meat, dairy and
sugar.
 Sleeping and reducing
stress
• It is very important for teenagers to sleep for 8-10 and adults
for 7-9 hours a day.
• Stress is also very bad for everyone. It is necessary to have a
hobby that makes you feel relaxed, for example maybe you
like painting or dancing and it could help you cope with stress.
• Yoga helps you to relax.
 About your heart:
• There are five liters of blood in your body.
• The number of liters of blood that your heart pumps in a day is
23,000.
• The length of the blood vessels in your body is 100,000km
• Your heart is a muscle that beats around 100,000 times a day.
• The normal heart rate for adults are between 60 and 100 beats
per minute, but there are a lot of things that can influence the
normal heart rate.
Take care of your heart, don’t be scared
of the doctors and stay happy.