Heart maintenance or how is your heart like your car?
Heart maintenance or how is your heart like your car?
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.
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‘Preventing your heart disease’
