Your Health Does Matter

Did you know that heart disease is a significant killer in Bermuda and around the globe? This can hardly be a surprise as a high percentage of the population consumes vast amounts of fat-laden processed foods and do little to no exercise. The combination of fast, greasy food and physical activity limited to a walk to the car, or picking up a TV remote will guarantee severe heart conditions in the future. 

Bermudians are dying younger and younger each year due to inactivity and poor food choices.  We are literally eating ourselves to into an early grave.

Let me ask you some questions; how would you like some time off?   You will be given an all-expenses-paid two to three week trip with three complimentary meals a day.  You will have people waiting on your hand and foot, day and night. However, you will have to learn how to use a bedpan or get fitted with adult diapers, but that ok, isn’t it?  Is a prolonged stay in a hospital in your future because you’ve had a heart attack? 

You will start eating right tomorrow, you will begin to exercise tomorrow; you will care more about your heart than you do about that plate of fried foods tomorrow.  Do your tomorrows add up to a month or more; the hospital will be there for you tomorrow. That’s if you are lucky, and you survive your heart attack. If this is not your ideal way to spend your time off, what steps are you going to do to ensure this isn’t your future.  If you continue making poor food and lifestyle choices, you can say goodbye to your health, and you will sorely miss it when it’s gone.  Living a healthy life does not mean you have to give up the foods you love; you just need to manage how you move and the foods you consume appropriately.  

To avoid extended hospital stay’s, this is what you need to do:

• Care about what you eat and how often you are eating it.
• Move it or lose it. WALK, simply walk 15mins in one direction stop, turn around and go back, and you’re done.
• Remember, stress kills…..
• If you smoke, STOP 

If you need help, the Bermuda Heart Foundation’s CORE Center will teach you how to live life in a heart-healthy way.  For more information call……232-2673