More than 41 million women in America suffer from heart disease. The number of people with heart disease in women over time, more and continues to grow. Even people with this deadly disease experienced by more women than men.

However, based on tests conducted in the Swedish study, heart disease problems can be overcomed by performing five healthy lifestyle, for an example, non-alcohol, healthy diet, exercise every day, normal weight and not smoking can prove to expel the risk of heart attack.

This method is believed could overcome the problem of heart disease as much as 92 percent. This research has been tested on 24,000 women.

Here’s how health designed to help you reduce the risk of heart disease. Try to start doing a series of healthy patterns for a week, and feel the benefits for the long term:

Day 1: Drinking Green Tea

This potent beverage contains several powerful antioxidants that can reduce cholesterol and even lower blood pressure. To make this healthy drink, prepare 20 ounces of boiling water, put three bags of green tea without caffeine, and let stand for 10 minutes. If visible change color, you can serve it in a teapot. Could also add ice cubes. Enjoy the aroma and taste intensity throughout the day.

Day 2: Consumption of Low-Fat Healthy Foods

To keep your heart health, fat consumption which is recommended not exceeding 30% of calories. And more importantly, avoid using saturated oil and replace it with unsaturated fats that can be obtained from olive oil, nuts, dark chocolate, avocado and polyunsaturated which can be obtained from salmon, flaxseed, and walnuts.

Limit your intake of saturated fat to 7% of total calories (1600 calories to the diet, it was about 12 grams per day). Avoid Trans fats are commonly found in cakes, biscuits, baked goods and other processed foods. Both these fats can increase LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries, cholesterol.

Day 3: Healthy Cooking

Use a MUFA-rich olive oil in your food preparation whenever possible. Heart healthy fats can lower “bad” LDL cholesterol and raise “good” (HDL). Olive oil rich in antioxidants, which can help reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, like Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Provide always substitute olive oil for butter or margarine on the table, and use it to replace vegetable oils in cooking.

Day 4: Provide adequate rest periods

According to a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, each additional adult bedtime can reduce the risk of coronary artery calcification, the cause of heart disease, by 33%. When you have less time to sleep, your body releases stress hormones that constrict blood vessels and cause inflammation.

If you regularly feel tired when getting out of bed and always feel sleepy in the daytime, you need to be alert, so you can not sleep. Most adults need 7-8 hours a night to sleep.

Day 5: Consumption of many fiber

Studies show that the more fiber you eat, the less likely you are to have a heart attack. Reduce consumption of wheat bread and cereals that contain wheat, wheat bran. Expand consuming beans, soups, and salads. Within a day, you must consume 25-35 grams of fiber per day.

Day 6: Fish Feast

Meat saturated fats can clog your arteries. On the other hand, fish such as salmon and other fish species believed to be rich in omega-3 fatty acids that will help keep your heart still beat. Eat fish-fisheries that contain omega-3 may reduce the risk of death from heart attack by 52%!

SLEEP is not only a perfect rest for body and soul, but also makes you enjoy life more. Conversely, lack of sleep not only affects your chance to enjoy life, but also create a threat to health.

Lack of sleep at the age of approximately 20 did not show side effects that are too visible. In fact, when enough time to rest overnight, it will give a dramatic effect on your face.

There is a clear correlation between the time sleeping with one’s appearance. A recent study found that poor sleep has hormonal effects that are similar to the aging process. In fact, increasing the possibility of disease associated with age, according to quotes from Legal Daily Mail, Tuesday (16/2/2010).

“We suspect that loss of sleep not only accelerate the aging, but also enhance the disease, such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and memory loss,” said Eve Van Cauter, a scientists who led the research path.

Furthermore, other studies found in the fact that lack of sleep could trigger the stress which would  react on the body, increase cortisol levels, the emergence of stress hormones, and glucose. Please note, the increased levels of glucose in the body indicated a greater risk of heart disease and stroke.

In addition, a more worrying again, the woman who has a habit of approximately five hours of sleep a night, was tantamount to raise herself to the risk of heart disease. Disrupted sleep also affect blood pressure (which usually falls at night) and make us susceptible to colds and flu.

A study which is done by Europe Sleep Research Society found that people who sleep less tend to be judged less attractive and has a paler color. Cause, during deep sleep, that’s when skin cells are newly produced.

The reason why so many of us feel and look 10 years younger after the holidays is because, when on vacation, we have enough time to sleep.

“One of the primary functions of sleep is to allow the brain to repair themselves,” says Professor Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Center at the University of Loughborough.

During sleep, the cortex [the largest part of the brain, which regulate the functions of higher, such as thoughts and actions] went into recovery mode. Without a break, you may wake up in the condition irritable, depressed, forgetful and unable to concentrate on the task.

Well, of course is not unreasonable if you have to spend a lot of money to become a member at the gym and buy expensive face cream to look young, but all you need is at least six hours of sleep each night.

Recently there has been a lot of issues about how coffee seems to raise our cholesterol levels. And it refers to the LDL (aka ‘bad’) cholesterol levels. After doing some research, I have found some pretty interesting things as well as some tips on how to lower your risk of heart disease and/or higher cholesterol levels due to coffee. First thing’s first, research has shown that it is not just any cup of coffee that raises a person’s cholesterol levels, but it is mostly due to unfiltered coffee such as French press coffee and espresso.

Many people may choose to automatically blame this issue on the caffeine in the coffee, but that would not be a correct assumption. The reason why coffee has the ability to raise our cholesterol levels is because of oils called terpenes found in coffee. These oils are easily filtered out with our normal paper filters. However, just make sure that those filters are not the ones with extra ‘aroma’ holes plugged throughout them as these will raise your chances of consuming the terpene oils that can potentially be harmful. Now, all of this at first seemed very disappointing as I personally have always consumed my coffee in the form of espresso. Not anymore, I like it iced, so rather than an Americano I get an iced coffee.

Another thing to point out are the other factors that also may contribute to higher cholesterol levels and those could be genetics, sugars in the coffee drinks and other habits such as smoking. All of these factors would have to be considered as well if a person was going to do an in-depth analysis on whether or not they should give up coffee versus smoking or something. The frozen coffee beverages, to me, resemble a dessert in many cases. On top of it all they contain espresso, which by the way does not use a paper filter. Espresso uses a steel filter in many cases so a lot of the oils will be pushed right through when preparing that heavenly brew. So, one thing to remember from all of this is that if a person would like to lower their chances of raising their cholesterol due to coffee, then stick to filtered coffee and try best to avoid the unfiltered coffees and, unfortunately, the espresso beverages.

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