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A Blueprint for Wellness can lead to a healthy heart and longer life. What an amazing organ our heart is! It beats for an entire lifetime without stopping for a break. With every heartbeat, about a third of a cup of oxygen-rich blood is pumped out to your body.
This means that between 1,500 and 2,000 gallons of blood are pumped through your heart every day. The average heartbeat is 72 times per minute. In the course of one day it beats over 100,000 times. In one year the heart beats almost 38 million times,and by the time you are 70 years old, on average, it beats 2.5 billion times! That makes me tired just thinking about it. Create your own Blueprint for Wellness for a healthy heart.
The heart has a lot of work to do, so how can we help it stay healthy throughout life?
*Heart Health Top 10
1. Eat a high fiber diet – Dietary fiber is often classified into two categories: soluble and insoluble.
* Soluble fiber draws water into the bowel and can help slow digestion. Soluble fiber can help reduce bad cholesterol, triglycerides and elevated glucose (blood sugar). Examples include:
Oatmeal
Oat bran
Beans
Peas
Rice bran
Barley
Citrus
Strawberries
Apple pulp
* Insoluble fiber speeds digestion and can add bulk to the stool. Examples include
Whole wheat breads
Wheat cereal
Wheat bran
Rye
2. Eat healthy fats
Most of us have heard about how fats are bad for us – but this isn’t always the case. Some fats are very good for our ongoing well-being. Two of these fats are Omega-3 and Omega-6. Not only are they good for us, they’re actually indispensible, which is why they are also called Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs).
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