We have all heard that from our parents, partner, siblings, work colleagues and sometimes from our doctor that we should have a more healthy life style. Few people take any notice of this nagging advice. Only a small number of people actual take any action.

What is a healthy life style and what is the connection between health and lifestyle.

Most people would immediately think of their diet as a life style choice so its is important that it is a healthy diet and the quantities are appropriate. Not only the correct choices of the food types but in the quantities or portion sizes. A balanced healthy diet together with appropriate calorie intake will control weight.

Exercise is rightly considered by most to be a factor in a healthy life style but few make the effort.

Science has shown that smoking and alcohol adversely affects health. The affects are different for some people and can be more pronounced depending on the quantity and length of time used.

Using cocaine and steroids are again lifestyle choices and few realise the negative health implications.

Most people would say they have a stressful lifestyle. However a stressful lifestyle should not be discounted in terms of the affects on health.

One of the main issues that can be improved with a healthy life style is the health of the heart. Each of these life style choices will have different consequences for each person and they need to be considered in conjunction with other factors.

A person with an unhealthy life style will already be damaging their heart and therefore they need to realize this together with other heart disease risk factors.

A person with a healthy life style may have other factors which raise their heart disease risk level.

You can take this opportunity to perform your own heart disease risk assessment as this will help you see what proportion of your overall risk for premature heart disease comes from your life style choices.

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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’

A healthy life style is a great contributor to heart health and preventing 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 concerns.

Sorry but here are some harsh words:

• 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 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’

We hope we have made you better aware that obesity and heart disease are directly related and that you will do all you reasonably can to lower your 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.

Why not take this opportunity to get a heart risk assessment and see your heart maintenance report.

This could be your first step to knowing how to prevent heart disease. You are too important to neglect so get on the road to improved health.

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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
• My heart risk score
• Your heart disease risk calculator and report writer
• 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.

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’

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.
Starting from here you will see the connection between BMI and heart disease and learn how to prevent heart disease, an important lesson
Now look at these charts to quickly determine your body mass index. 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 as best you can but to get a BMI and heart disease heart risk assessment.

It is important that you consider how to prevent heart disease for yourself not only for the obvious benefit to yourself of possibly living longer but for the sake of your family, friends and loved ones.

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk series on how to prevent heart disease including:

• Obesity 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
• 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.

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’

We hope this has helped you will see the connection between BMI and heart disease and we wish you success in preventing your heart disease.