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7 Steps to a
Healthier Heart
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SUMMARIZE 2 3 4 5 Get active. Log healthy diet.
Eat a heart-
Make
150 minutes of
vegetables
Control your
moderate
and fruits,
intensity
1 Monitor your Maintain a Watch your blood sugar. activity-like whole grains,
Aim for a
healthy
cholesterol.
and fish
fasting
blood weight. Strive for blood brisk walking- mealtime
per week (or
Live alcohol pressure. Target a a total glucose less 75 minutes of staples. Limit
and smoke- Keep body mass cholesterol than 100 vigorous- sodium,
free. your numbers index (BMI) of less than mg/dL. intensity saturated fat,
below 120/80 less than 25. 200 and added
mm Hg. mg/dL. activity). sugar.
Source: AHA Guidelines