Heart Help is Here
Even if your lifestyle is currently conducive to heart disease, for example you eat mostly fast food and are sedentary, overweight and heavily stressed, you can actually reverse the process of heart disease by replacing your bad habits with good ones.
Women who spend as little as 1 hour walking each week can cut their risk of heart disease in half. The study found that walking, even at a moderate clip, reduced heart disease risk among nearly 40,000 women, including those who smoked, were overweight and had high cholesterol.
The findings are based on data collected over an average 4.5 year period from nearly 13,000 middle-aged men and women.
This is a comprehensive review with nearly 150 references from the recent medical literature. Dr. Willet, chairman of the Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard, wrote the review.
Because optimistic individuals actively engage in planning and problem solving, they may experience fewer stressors, or they may have more resources with which to deal with stress.