National Heart Safety Month

1. Less Screen Time is Heart Healthy: Spending four or more hours per day sitting in front of your computer, TV, or other devices could double your risk of having a heart attack.
2. Ten Minutes of Exercise Helps your Heart: Getting just ten minutes of physical activity each day can lower your risk of having a heart attack significantly. Aiming for thirty minutes a day could potentially lower your risk even more.
3. Stress and Heart Disease Are Connected: Stress is one of the biggest factors that lead to heart disease. Find ways to reduce stress, such as deep breathing. Anger can also be a factor that leads to heart disease.
4. Laughter Protects Your Heart: Laughing is healthy for your blood vessels. It helps them relax and expand, which keeps your heart working properly.
5. Mondays Are the Worst for Heart Attacks: Researchers found that heart attacks tend to occur more often on Monday mornings than at any other time of the week.
6. Heart Disease Fatality Rates Are High: Heart disease fatality rates are around 40 percent. More than 25,000 people in the U.S. die from heart disease every day.
7. More Sleep Is Better for Your Heart: Those who get more sleep each night have a lower risk of heart disease. People who get less than five hours of sleep, have a 39 % chance higher of having a heart disease.
8. Heart Disease Starts Early: Heart disease isn’t something that develops when you’re older. In fact, it starts when you’re a teenager or young adult.