Do This Daily To Help Prevent A Stroke
We are hearing that more and more people are suffering strokes these days and are in the look for ways to prevent a stroke from happening. The usual advise is lose weight and keep your blood pressure on the safe side.
High blood pressure is called the silent killer because it doesn’t present a lot of symptoms and unless you are checking it regularly, no might never know you are suffering until it’s too late. As they say, the first sign of a stroke could be your last.
It used to be advised to have a blood pressure reading of 120/80 but now doctors are asking patients to keep it even lower at 110/70. Well how do we do that without resorting to medicine and drastic weight loss measures? The good news is according to new science on the topic, all we have to do get off our feet and avoid the elevator whenever possible.
Most of have stairs at home, whether in your house or in the apartment or condo building, so finding an opportunity to take the stairs is not a hard thing to do, although given the choice we are more inclined to take the easy way out and push the elevator button.
If you have stairs that lead to your place of business, you should consider taking them for your heart and overall health. Once you start the habit, it becomes much easier to do over time and will become a regular thing you do and for good reasons.
Check out the latest study on how to avoid a stroke
Climbing stairs every day can reduce the risk of a common cause of stroke by nearly a third, a study shows.
Researchers tracked hundreds of thousands of people in their fifties to see what proportion developed atrial fibrillation – an abnormal heartbeat which is a major risk factor for strokes.
They found adults climbing at least 110 steps a day – roughly the equivalent of going up a typical household staircase about seven times – were 31 per cent less likely to develop the potentially life-threatening condition.
Experts at Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China analysed data on stairs use and general health among nearly half-a-million Brits taking part in a long-term health project called UK Biobank.
All were free of any heart problems when they joined the study and followed up for 12 years to see who got ill.
