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Show It's Your Life Prescription for a healthy heart: Exercise and reduce re-duce stress. This death defying lifestyle life-style package will have a profound impact on human performance and reduce the risks of heart attack. A group of men ranging in age from 35 to 50, who thought they were healthy, found that 94 of them were in poor or very poor fitness. fit-ness. Heart attack victims seem younger now, and there are more of them, including women. wo-men. A solution is relatively simple: Regular aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise is any sustained activity that increases in-creases the heart rate and conditions the heart muscle. Talk with physician before starting an.y exercise program. pro-gram. Avoid exercising alone. Develop a partnership which offers checks and balances. Stress increases cardiovascular cardio-vascular risk factors. We may not be able to change deadlines or avoid traffic jams but we can change how we handle stressful situations. situ-ations. Reorganize your work -load to deal with one piece of information at a time. Obtain family counseling so each can learn to respect res-pect the others needs. Be guilt free about making mak-ing time for rest and relaxation. re-laxation. Unless we intervene and work arduously to condition our bodies and reduce stress coronary disease will probably prob-ably become epidemic. |