Taking care of ourselves is vital for having a healthy life, a healthy organism. We have to be careful and give our body the necessary vitamins, minerals and nutrients in order to have the necessary energy and strength to remain fit and healthy.

Our heart is the center of our lives, is the engine that keeps us alive. That is why it should be the first and most important organ to take care of. Unfortunately in these rushing times, full with problems we do not have enough time and strength to take care of our body, this way causing severe damages to our heart. The first step needed to be made for our heart to remain healthy is changing our lifestyle and eating habits.

Following the right type of diet can have lots of benefits regarding our heart. Asking expert advice is necessary, but there are some tips that can help you develop a healthy way of eating. First and most important of all is avoiding obesity. So taking in a lot of fat and calories, gaining more and more body fat can cause as much damage to your heart as sudden heart attacks or heart failure. Eating food low on fats, avoiding smoking, drinking moderate amounts of alcohol and making exercise can slow down the apparition, the risk of heart attacks.

It is also clinically proven, that the right diet, that can be beneficial to your heart includes fruits, vegetables, rice, pasta, dairy products and milk, whole grain, fish, red and processed meat. These types of food contain the right amount of minerals and vitamins, enough calories and energy to strengthen your body and heart, minimizing the risk of the appearance of heart diseases. Although it might seem strange these types of food combined with moderate alcohol consumption can lead to the decrease of heart diseases and can prevent most of the myocardial infractions.

Another component beneficial to your heart is coffee. Drinking coffee might reduce the risk of dying from heart disease, drinking coffee on the long term, in opposition of other, earlier beliefs, can have some beneficial effects that reduce the risk of apparition.

So if you want to remain healthy and live with a healthy heart you should follow four steps: avoid smoking, be physically active, eat healthy following the proper diet, and get rid of unnecessary fat, which is a high risk factor.

Obese children show early signs of heart diseases, articulated a study published in the Winter 2007 issue of the Journal of Cardiometabolic Syndrome. The study by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine revealed that such kids are at greater risk for complications such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, because obesity increases total blood volume, which leads to extra stress on the heart.

Angela Sharkey, M.D., associate professor of paediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and a paediatric cardiologist at St. Louis Children's Hospital, said, "Based on this study, these subtle markers can help us predict who could be at risk for heart disease and heart attacks."

Sharkey and Steven M. Lorch, M.D., a former fellow at the School of Medicine now at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, studied data from 168 children ages 10 to 18 who had been referred to them for cardiac ultrasound with symptoms including heart murmur, chest pain, acid reflux or high blood cholesterol.

Based on CDC guidelines for body mass index for age (BMIA), 33 patients were found to have a BMIA as obese, or the 95th percentile or above for their age; 20 had a BMIA that classified them as at risk for obesity, or between the 85th and 94th percentile; and 115 were considered normal, or below the 85th percentile.

To analyse the hearts of the obese children and those at risk, Sharkey and Lorch used a new tissue Doppler imaging technique called vector velocity imaging which tracks the movement of the heart's muscular wall. Any changes in the rate of motion of heart muscle were averaged within each group and compared to the normal rate of motion.

"In the patients who are obese, the rate of motion of heart muscle changed," Sharkey said.

"As a child's BMIA increases, we see alterations in both the relaxation and contraction phase of the heartbeat. Many of these changes that have been seen in adults were assumed to be from long-standing obesity, but it may be that these changes start much earlier in life than we thought,” he said

As vector velocity imaging becomes more broadly available, Sharkey said, it could potentially help pediatric cardiologists follow these children more closely over time to see if changes in the heart progress.

"We may be able to determine whether we could intervene in the process, such as focusing the families on understanding the importance of regular exercise and dietary modifications for weight loss and prescribing statin drugs for high-blood cholesterol," she said.

Sharkey said the results of the study give more ammunition to physicians to use in counselling paediatric patients and their parents about the risks of obesity and the need to attain a healthy weight.

"Even in teenagers, obesity leads to decreased myocardial performance and abnormal diastolic function," she said.
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