Watch out your smoking habit. Smoking is a very dangerous habit especially for heart disease. Even just one cigarette a day can stiffen your coronary arteries by 25 per cent. So, minimize it as much as you can. Quit it if you can.

Avoid birth control pills in women. The pills can increase the chance of blood clot due to the hormonal change. Oral contraceptives are therefore to be used with care.

Properly handle your stress. Stress increases adrenaline in your system. It raises blood pressure and destabilizes plague in your arteries. It can cause a clot or heart attack or many other illnesses. Therefore, learn to handle your stress well for the sake of your heart.

Do not forget to socialize. Loneliness is harmful especially for women. Therefore, make sure that you have enough time to be with your family, friends or others. It is one of the necessary tools to reduce the risk of heart disease.

Have enough sleep. You should sleep at least seven or eight hours a day to be healthy. Not enough sleep can lead to high blood pressure, low grade inflammation and higher levels of cortisol which is a stress hormone. These are harmful to your blood vessels and heart. In addition, lack of sleep can be associated to weight gain. So, you need to set up your sleeping time to make sure that you avoid them.

Have enough strength training. You will start to lose more muscle mass when you enter your 40s. Your metabolism will slow down and you can be fat easier. If you do more muscle training and gain more muscle. You can maintain your metabolism. So, start your weight lifting to help you reduce another risk factor of heart disease.

Here are just some of the tips that you can use to reduce your chance of having heart disease. There are still many other factors that you should do including watching out your diet, checking your health regularly and taking medication when you have to.

1 Canned Tomatoes:

The experts say that the resin linings of tin cans have bisphenol-A which is a synthetic estrogen. It can cause problems in reproductive system. Also, it involves in heart disease, diabetes and obesity. The high acidity in tomatoes accelerates the release of this agent. The impact may be more violent in younger population.  So, if you want tomatoes, go for a fresh one. Or you can choose one in a glass bottle. It is safer according to the experts.

2 Corn-fed Beef

Cattle are supposed to eat grass not grains. However, the modern farmers normally feed their farm animals with corn and soybeans. The process makes the animals fat and grow faster. As a result, there is less nutrition for the beef eaters. Researches show that corn-fed beef contains fewer vitamins and minerals including have some fatty acids which are linked to heart disease. Therefore, eat grass-fed beef. It is a more premium price item that can be found in specialty grocery stores or famers’ market.

3 Microwave Popcorn

The lining of the popcorn bag include PerfluoroOctanoic acid. It is an agent which is linked to the infertility in humans. In animal, the agent can cause liver, testicular and pancreatic cancer. Studies show that microwave makes the chemicals go to the popcorn. The chemicals can be accumulated and cause problems in the long run.  The manufacturers have plan to stop this but it takes years to phase out the product. So, why don’t we just avoid it and go to our conventional popcorn.

4 Potatoes

Normally, rooted plants absorb a lot of pesticide, herbicide and fungicide that wind up in soil. Potatoes are also in this category.  They are treated with fungicide in the growing season, with herbicides before harvesting and with pesticide when they are dug up and kept. So, they are dangerous. To avoid them, eat the organic potatoes or something else.

The above four foods are what you should avoid from the experts. They say that they would not eat these foods themselves. If the experts do not eat, I think we should avoid them as well.