Beat your Stress for a Healthier Heart with Herbalife collection of Nutritional and Health Products

Avoid being part of millions of people around the world who suffer from cardiovascular problems...

There are many essentials of a healthy lifestyle that need to be considered when looking after your heart. One of those is avoiding stress. As our lifestyles become busier, with more commitments and longer working hours, our stress levels are increasing. With Herbalife's Healthy Heart Program, we aim to help you keep your hearts healthy by curbing these harmful trends.

Let's discuss the basics

• YOUR WEIGHT - Keeping your weight down is vital. The most vital measurement to affect the heart is the waist measurement that is the circumference of the waist at its maximum point.
• DO EXERCISE - Recommend that you walk daily. A brisk daily half hour walk, which makes conversation difficult but not impossible, is sufficient to keep the heart beating strongly.
• STOP SMOKING - To give up is the only advice you should give! However, cutting down could be the more realistic first phase option.

How does stress fit in?

Whilst stress is not one of the main risk factors for coronary heart disease, the link between them is becoming increasingly clear.

The dangers of increasing stress levels to the heart

• When you get stressed, your body releases hormones, such as adrenaline, to respond to the challenge it faces. These hormones can make the blood more likely to clot and can increase blood pressure. High blood pressure is considered one of the main risk factors of coronary heart disease.
• Stress can affect your state of mind, so that you become more reliant on quick fixes such as overeating, smoking and sugary snacks
• Stress can discourage you from relaxing and spending time on healthy physical activity, which could benefit your heart.

Let's look at some signs of Stress

• Feeling sweaty with a pounding heart
• Feeling sick in the stomach
• Having a dry mouth
• Working to exhaustion
• Being constantly irritable
• Losing appetite for food and/or sex
• Loss of sense of humor
• Loss of interest in others
• Tearfulness
• Feeling tired and having no energy
• Difficulty in sleeping

What should you do about stress?

Identify the things that make you feel stressed.
Tackle that source of stress by:

• Avoiding the stressful situation.
• Tackling the cause of stress e.g. speak to your manager about your workload, consider your priorities in life, spend more time with your family or consider having counseling to discuss difficulties with an independent party.
• If you can't change the source of the stress, try to change your attitude towards it. Breathe deeply when you feel yourself becoming tense, replace negative thoughts with positive ones, and discuss the way you feel. Get your mind over matter.

More Suggestions to combat stress

• Do more exercise; this is the best way to relieve stress. Sign up at a gym or start exercising with a partner on a daily basis
• Eat well and drink lots of water, stay away from sodas as the sugar influences the insulin levels in the blood which can put the body under stress. Decrease coffee intake as it can increase hart tempo and keep you awake when the body needs the rest.
• Cut down on alcohol and cigarettes
• Make time for rest and relaxation and spend more time with friends and family… stay away from too much TV

Excellent Heart Health for everyone

It is vital to maintain a healthy heart; the Herbalife Healthy Heart program has been designed with your future in mind. Put the power of heart health in your hands: prepare for tomorrow today!

The Healthy Heart program looks at what you can do each day, as well as using Niteworks powder each night, to keep you heart healthy. The program recommends:

• Reducing cholesterol and reducing your intake of fatty foods
• Increasing your fibre intake by eating plenty of fruit and vegetables.
• Drinking eight glasses of water each day
• Taking regular exercise and living an active life
• Eating food fats such as fish oils or use a supplement such as Herbalifeline
• Limiting your salt intake
• If you smoke, then quit or at least cut down
• Making some time each week to relax an try to avoid stress

Herbalife Niteworks

• Boost nitric oxide levels at night when they are lowest
• L-arginine is an amino acid that our body uses to make nitric acid
• Folic acid helps protect the vascular system

Niteworks powder has been formulated to supply vital amino acids together with beneficial antioxidants that assist with the natural production of nitric oxide' it is a key player in Herbalife Healthy Heart program.
Nitric oxide is important to control blood flow to vital organs; it controls the circulation of blood, ensuring arteries efficiently nourish the entire body.

Herbalife Herbalifeline

• Rich in omega-3 fatty acids normally found in oily fish
• Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) are omega-3 fatty acids which can help reduce the risk of heart problems, lower high blood pressure and maintain healthy cholesterol levels.

Herbalifeline tablets contain omega-3 fatty acids for cardiovascular health. These easy-to-swallow capsules are specially formulated to help minimize fish oil taste during digestion. Reap the benefits of the fruits of the sea!
Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) are 'good' fats which are beneficial to the body, in particular the heart, they are essential as the body cannot produce them. Omega-3 and 6 are two types of the EFAs which are beneficial to the body when the levels of each are balanced. Studies have shown that many western diets are very low in omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids, creating an unbalanced level – which is why a supplement may be beneficial.

A Healthy Heart is indispensable to leading a long and active life. Protect the health of your heart with a selection of supplements created to promote an optimal cardiovascular function. Try out the Healthy Heart Program from Herbalife and contact your ShapeWorks coach today... info@shapelife.co.za

(The information on this page are the comments of an independent Herbalife distributor).