Obesity and heart disease

Obesity and heart disease

If you consider yourself to be obese then you are probably aware that obesity and heart disease are directly related. Well done to find this message as you are showing good intent to want to address your concern over obesity and heart disease.

Sorry but here are some harsh words:

• there is a link between obesity and heart disease
• being obese is not good for your heart
• being obese will most likely shorten your lifespan
• The length of time you have been like this will have already caused damage
• the longer you stay like this the worse it gets

Do not despair there is still plenty you can do and the sooner you get started the better it is.

First get your MyHeartRisk risk assessment which will give you a comprehensive personal report on your heart disease risk. If the other aspects of your lifestyle are reasonable and your general health is OK and there is not too much family history of heart problems then this will all help.
Your risk assessment will include

• Family tree
• Risk charts
• Comprehensive personal report
• Progress charts

If you need help from your doctor or health care professional then they will be pleased you have the above which you can share with them when you discuss your obesity and heart disease.
Get started today by following this link to the MyHeartRisk heart risk assessment

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

• Family history of heart disease
• How is your heart like your car?
• My heart risk score
• Your heart disease risk calculator and report writer
• Heart attack risk
• BMI and heart disease

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’

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Heart attack risk

Heart attack risk

Knowing your heart attack risk and more importantly taking steps to make it as low as possible are important stages towards preventing heart disease. A heart attack could be the first time you realize you have heart problems and it is also the time when you realize you have no more chances to avoid heart disease. Once you know you have heart disease your whole outlook on life changes and now you, your family and loved ones have something else to worry about.

Don’t bury your head in the sand, look into what your heart attack risk could be and before it’s too late do something at it to start the process of preventing heart disease. The least that can happen is you may not be able to avoid heart disease but you maybe able to put it off for a while.

Just what is heart attack risk

Heart disease is the most common cause of death so its not surprising that we all have a chance of having a heart attack. For some of us the risk of heart disease happening sooner is higher and for some it may not show itself at all. For a particular age and gender there is an average or population risk and it would be comforting to be below average and it should be a concern to over the average but there is little to be gained by comparing yourself to the average. What matters is you and your heart attack risk. If you were told you were over the average by a number of points what would this mean and would you know what to do to close the gap? What you need is the complete package that you can get from My Heart Risk which

• estimates your risk for heart disease now and for up to the next 30 years
• tells you personally what you can do about lowering your risk
• stays with you as a buddy to provide encouragement and support

What can MyHeartRisk do for you

Other heart attack risk calculators may tell you your current risk compared to the average population but then provide little or no help with lowering your risk. My Heart Risk will analyze each of your heart disease risk factors and give you a detailed explanation of how these contribute to your overall heart attack risk. The program will also give you detailed recommendations on the actions to be taken to mitigate these risks where possible. The help you might need may have to come from your doctor or health care provider in the form of medications and again MyHeartRisk will help you by including in your personal report the information that will be of help to your doctor.
Take a look at these parts that make up your personal package from My Heart Risk

• Family tree
• Your risk charts
• Personalized report
• Charts monitoring progress

You owe it to yourself, your family and loved ones to do all you can to avoid heart disease by first identifying and understanding your heart disease risk factors then finding ways of preventing heart disease. My Heart Risk can help with all of these as well as helping you to work with your health care provider so get started today by taking a MyHeartrisk assessment.

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

• BMI and heart disease
• Family history of heart disease
• How is your heart like your car?
• My heart risk score
• Your heart disease risk calculator and report writer

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’

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Your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer

Your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer

Assessing your risk for heart disease using a conventional heart disease risk calculator is only achieving a small part of what can be accomplished by this your heart risk calculator and report writer from My Heart Risk.

In addition to calculating your risk for heart disease at your current age and for the next 30 years this program provides you with a personalized service including

• Family tree
• Risk charts
• Comprehensive personal report
• Progress charts

The personal report contains health recommendations which relate to the data you enter about yourself. Other heart disease risk calculator routines can only provide generalized comments and recommendations which are not specific to you as an individual.

This heart risk calculator uses a new concept of building a relationship between you and My Heart Risk. This relationship enables you to accurately enter information about yourself and your family members from which the heart disease risk assessment is performed and the multipart personal report is generated.

MyHeartRisk will highlight any important missing data that would enable a more accurate risk assessment to be performed and because of your MyHeartRisk membership you can return and enter this when it is available.

The risk charts and report will give you the incentive and encouragement to follow the personal health recommendations and you can return at anytime to update your data. You will then be able to see the improvements you are making by studying the progress charts.

How to prevent heart disease

You are not alone in your goal to prevent heart disease for yourself as My Heart Risk is your partner and health coach helping you learn how to prevent heart disease. In some circumstances you may need assistance from your doctor or other health care provider and this is where My Heart Risk can help you to talk to your doctor and advocate for yourself using your personal report.

The personal report together with the family tree and risk charts are presented in such a way as to be readily understood by yourself but also be of help to your doctor. The data you enter into the MyHeartRisk your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer will be invaluable in helping your physician to help you.

Most appointments with doctors do not allow sufficient time for the doctor to get a full picture of your circumstances but by sharing your MyHeartRisk personal report with your physician you will be presenting your doctor with the information about yourself and your family history that you have recorded ahead of time.

By joining My Heart Risk you will not only be using a sophisticated heart disease risk calculator but you will have a partner to help prevent heart problems by giving you personal targetted health recommendations, the ability to work better with your physician, encoragement to get the job done and feedback showing you the improvements you have made.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can email you details on how to use the heart disease risk calculator and report writer. To get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

• Obesity and heart disease
• BMI and heart disease
• Family history of heart disease
• How is your heart like your car?
• Heart attack risk

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

We hope you will make use of your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer as a step towards preventing your heart disease.

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My heart risk score

My heart risk score

To help you get your heart risk score, which estimates the chances of you having heart disease now and in the future, you need to know certain information under the following four main categories:

Yourself

Your age, your gender (male or female), your height and your weight. Also, if you have them, your latest blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Your heart disease family history

Have there been any of your relatives who have had heart disease? Inherited heart disease could be one of your heart disease risk factors if you answer yes to any of these:

• Did the relative have their first symptom of heart disease, such as a heart attack or stroke, at an early age?
• Is this a close relative?
• Do you have more than one relative with heart disease?

How healthy is your lifestyle

Some people have a healthy life style but most do not. Most people compromise and lead a more balanced lifestyle which includes eating a reasonably healthy heart diet, drinking some alcohol, taking some exercise and so on. Some people have an unhealthy lifestyle as they smoke, use cocaine or steroids, are stressed or do not take their medication. Some people are also exposed to environmental health issues which is often not thought of as important as one of the heart disease risk factors.

Your health

If you have already been diagnosed with:

• Hypertension (high blood pressure)
• Diabetes
• Dyslipidemia (cholesterol)
• History of blood clotting
• Heart arrhythmias

then these are also heart disease risk factors.

Your heart risk score

To determine your heart risk score we take each of these components of personal details, the possiblity of inherited heart disease, how healthy is your life style (or is it an unhealthy lifestyle) and any heart concerns to determine your heart disease risk factors. We have developed a sophisticated method of combining this data which has been built up over many years.

After entering this information you print your own heart risk assessment which includes your family tree, risk charts and multipage personal report. These documents will give you an answer to your ‘My heart risk score’ question but they are also designed to be shared with others including your physician or other health care professional.

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series including:

• BMI and heart disease
• Family history of heart disease
• How is your heart like your car?

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’

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Heart maintenance or how is your heart like your car?

How is your heart like your car?

The journey of life – by My Heart Risk

Journey of life:

The journey of life begins with the genetic information that you inherit from your parents. The path traveled is affected by the many exposures that you experience along the way.

MyHeartRisk has been developed to attempt to navigate through the bumpy twists and turns in a smoother, more enjoyable and potentially longer journey through life.

Think about your body’s journey of life in the same way as a car’s journey of life.
Your car starts to age as soon as you begin to drive it. It requires a number of
preventative maintenance steps for prolonging life and preventing a devastating event.

If you allow your car to run low on oil, a major problem to the engine will be brewing until suddenly that devastating event occurs, leaving you without transportation.

In the same way, if you do not limit your cardiovascular risk factors, a devastating event such as a stroke will leave your body without transportation. Heart disease risk factors can begin early in life and accumulate over time leading to tragic consequences such as a heart attack or a stroke in later years.

These risk factors include environmental factors such as an unhealthy diet, lack of regular exercise and substance abuse. Other health risk factors include cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and diabetes.

Finally, our genetic makeup is an important contributor to risk for negative health events.

Any combination of these and other factors can increase the deterioration rate of the cardiovascular system and thus increase the risk for a devastating event.

Benjamin Franklin coined the expression, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

My Heart Risk can help you prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular events by identifying personal risk factors that affect your overall risk, current health status and environmental exposures, while empowering you with proven ways to decrease the rate of development of cardiovascular disease.

My Heart Risk provides you with the information you need to work together with your health care provider to modify your risk factors, thus, decreasing your risk.

Your efforts will produce an improved health status, leading to a smoother journey of life by increasing your happiness, serenity and longevity.

Start your journey of life today with MyHeartRisk.

Preventing heart disease and prolonging life

We all look for ways for prolonging life both for ourselves, our family and loved ones. Taking simple precausions to avoid accidents is an obvious example. However, the most likely reason for us to die, and possibly sooner than we might, is heart disease and very few people take the necessary precautions for prolonging life by simple heart maintenance. Preventing heart disease should be an everyday thought just like not getting hit when crossing the road.

The moral of our journey of life story comparing a car and your heart is we take for granted the need to look after our car but heart maintenance is more important and gets overlooked.

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series including:

• BMI and heart disease
• Family history of heart disease

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’

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BMI and heart disease

BMI and heart disease

Some people may admit to being overweight but few would say they were obese.
In some cultures being a little overweight is considered a symbol of a comfortable lifestyle, being wealthy enough to have good food and drink. Obesity on the other hand is considered by most to be a derogatory term for someone who has let themselves go and not caring for themselves.
However being overweight is bad for your heart and being obese is even worse and there is a small difference between these two classifications.
Now look at these charts to quickly determine your body mass index (BMI). You will need to know your approximate height and weight.
BMI Chart using inches and pounds

BMI Chart using centimeters and kilograms

You may be surprised that you are in the overweight category and you may be shocked to be in the obese category. If so you need to realise you are damaging your heart. The length of time you have been like this will have already caused damage and the longer you stay like this the worse it gets.
One of the risks for having heart problems at an earlier than expected age (premature heart disease) is being overweight or obese.

Lifestyle risk factors

The risk of heart disease from being overweight or obese is known as one of the lifestyle risk factors. Other lifestyle risk factors include smoking, lack of exercise, excess alcohol, cocaine or steroid use, environmental exposures and non compliance with healthcare advise.
If you are concerned that your weight is possibly damaging your heart health then you should take steps to not only reduce your weight but to get a heart disease risk assessment
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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series including:

• Family history of heart disease
• How is your heart like your car?

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’

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