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To keep one's heart healthy, our country’s heart associations have recommended we perform strenuous cardiovascular exercise, eat oatmeal for fibre, consume some vegetables, and drink moderate amounts of red wine.
We’ve been having some cold mornings here in Atlanta this week, and so a bowl or warm oatmeal may be a welcome part of many people’s breakfast, particularly for those runners in the Peachtree Battle area. Oatmeal and morning runs may be some people’s reality, but just for a moment, let’s take a trip into an imaginary world.
It’s an imaginary time in our civilization where some of the above heart-friendly recommendations would be renounced as useless and potentially harmful. In such a world scientists would be able to show that the die hard men and women who pound Atlanta’s streets day after day are harming their heart and the rest of their body. The researchers would inform us that running elevates a stress hormone named cortisol. ??We’d also see scientific reports that elevated levels of cortisol erodes muscle tissue in the heart and the rest of the body, kills neurons in the nervous system, and ages us, rapidly destroying the youth we’re trying so desparately hard to hold onto. The stress of running, we’d hear, raises cholesterol levels because cholesterol is the base ingredient of all of our hormones. More cholesterol is needed whenever cortisol levels are raised because of running and mental and emotional stress.
At the present time, doctors have advocated the consumption of red wine because the skin of red grapes contains a compound named reservatol which is thought to contain life-enhancing properties. In our imaginary world, lab technicians would tell us that the gastrointestinal damage produced by consuming one glass of alcohol far outweighs the benefits of the tiny amounts of natural compounds present in any alcoholic beverage. We’d be told that all alcohol is strongly deletrious to our health.
We are not living in an imaginary world though. Everything you’ve just read is true. Running and red wine are not conducive to the health and wellness of your heart, or any part of your body. They are not friends to your body. What can you do that is heart friendly? Check-in with the Atlanta Wellness Examiner on Sunday to learn how to look after your heart holistically. ??
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