Dr. Agung For Bali & Indonesia

The latest research on exercise and heart disease Heart disease has a number of risk factors. We have no control over some, like our family history. But there are several heart disease risk factors we can eliminate or at least modify. They include cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, diabetes, obesity and physical inactivity. In fact, recent evidence shows that levels of physical activity are much more closely related to risk of death from heart disease than is food intake. A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine surveyed data from nearly 10,000 participants obtained in the 1970s. The authors found that caloric intake was unrelated to heart disease mortality. Instead, persons who ate more but also exercised more were less than half as likely as those who exercised less and ate less to die of cardiovascular disease. Becoming physically fit can reduce the impact of many risks for heart disease. Exercise and high blood pressure ...