Laughing with your family, taking an awesome hike, kicking back with popcorn and a movie...you know what you need for each of these? A healthy heart! You know the basics ways to keep your heart healthy like exercise and include lots of fruits and veggies in your diet, now here are 3 weird ways to keep your heart healthy!
- Take a hot bath! A hot bath makes your blood vessels dilate which lowers your blood pressure as well as your risk of having a stroke
- Eat chili peppers! The “hot” is created by a compound that’s anti-inflammatory and helps regulate your blood sugar
- Listen to Corny Joke Friday every Friday at 840amPT on iHeart80s @ 103-7!! Ok ok that’s not exactly quoting the study but researchers in Japan discovered the more you laugh, the longer you’re likely to live. Plus if you have asthma laughing helps with that too!