Health Tip: Get Heart Healthy
(HealthDay News) -- If you want to improve your heart health, it may require a long-term commitment to changing your lifestyle.
The American Heart Association offers these heart-healthy suggestions:
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Replace your bad habits with healthier habits.
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Creating new habits takes time, possibly as long as 90 days.
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Approach these changes as replacing bad habits, rather than as depriving yourself.
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Create several small, short-term goals out of one big one.
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Be accountable to a friend you trust.
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Let yourself indulge every once in a while.
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Replace TV with daily exercise.
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