The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up: A Breakthrough Medical Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Masley Steven

Author:Masley, Steven [Masley, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Health & Fitness / Healthy Living, Health & Fitness / Diseases - Heart
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2014-02-03T23:00:00+00:00

Step 5. Don’t Overuse Stimulants or Alcohol

CAFFEINE

To manage your stress, you will have to put limits on stimulant use. When we’re tired or burned out, many of us turn to a steaming cup of coffee for relief. While a wake-up cup may be helpful first thing in the morning, too much is sure to make you feel agitated. Not only that, excessive caffeine can lead to a racing heart, stiffening arteries, and higher blood pressure. In fact, rather than helping you, too much coffee will stress you all the more. How much is too much? It’s best to limit yourself to no more than 2 cups a day, and clearly no more than 3.

What to do instead? As I mentioned in Chapter 4, to enhance your heart health, you’d benefit by drinking 3 or 4 cups of green tea daily. Iced or hot, it will calm you, and it also has many benefits for your heart. Indeed, green tea consumption is associated with a drop in heart attack and stroke rates. Even a cup of hot cocoa is a better choice than coffee, because of its heart-healthy effects: It decreases the risk of clotting and the oxidation of LDL into plaque, helps dilate your arteries, and lowers your blood pressure. Cocoa is rich in magnesium and fiber and is packed with anti-aging and stress-relieving compounds. Though green tea and cocoa have some caffeine, it occurs in much lower amounts than in coffee—especially the strong filtered coffee available at Starbucks and other gourmet coffee shops.

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