nutrition

First of all, exercise isn’t limited to lifting weights every day. If you can go to a gym and workout every day, that’s good, but most of us probably do not have the time for a full work out. Thus, we can save lots of time by working out at home. However, if you are to work out at home or gym, one concept is important: you must exercise consistently. Consistency is very important for an exercise routine to be effective on our body. Getting started is easy, but the hard part lies in keeping up a regular exercise routine, because people often give up.

When a Spanish-speaking friend wants to wish you the very best that life can offer, he will often lift his glass with the following toast: “To health and wealth – and time to enjoy both.” Embodied in this simple salute are the three basic desires common to people everywhere in all ages.

During the past 10 years we have learned a great deal in the fields of pathology, chemistry, biology, and nutrition that has provided us with clues to the mystery, and a practical approach to treatment for the first time. Widespread popular interest in the heart and in the aging process has helped immeasurably in the conquest of disease. But at the same time, it has been responsible for a good deal of fear and confusion among lay people. Some of these misconceptions are reflected in the questions my patients ask after reading articles of the kind that now appear in many newspapers and magazines. Take diseases of the heart and blood vessels, for example. Terms such as atherosclerosis, coronary thrombosis, and cholesterol are today fairly commonplace, even in publications for the general reader. But few non-medical people know exactly what these words mean. What is the cause of this new epidemic? Before taking up our discussion of ways to forestall a heart attack, it might therefore be well to understand more clearly the basic physiology involved.