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Heart attack is America'a deadliest enemy, claiming about 500,000 lives yearly. While it strikes mainly in middle-age, or later, the time to start safeguarding against heart attack is early childhood, when life-long habits are formed. Good health and heart habits begun now can reduce later risk of heart stuck.
Intensive research is going forward to find the causes of hardening of the arteries, which sets the sttge for heart stuck. Until this knowledge is available, physicians generally agree that the individual can do much to improve his chances of living longer by minimizing certain risk factors.
By setting a good example, parents can not only encourage their children to form rlskminlmizing habits that may last a lifetime, but at the same time protect their own hearts.
Here are basic suggestions for parents:
1. Get the latest heart-saving facts and share them with your children. Your Heart Association has free literature on the role played by the heart and circulatory system in susttlnlng human life. Give children the facts they should know about heart attack, stroke, rheumatic fever and other diseases which atuck this system..
2. Stress the importance of normal weight. Obesity often begins in youth. 3. Form good diet habits by serving more unsaturated fats (mostly vegeuble oils) in place of saturated (mostly animal) fats, and fewer foods rich in cholesterol.
4. "Encourage them to keep physically fit through regular exercise, and, if possible.make
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