It’s proven fact that tobacco intake doesn’t only harm your lungs, but also weakens your heart and effects the blood circulation adversely. If you’re diagnosed a heart problem and you’re still taking tobacco in one or other form, just quit it.

According to experts, “you can reduce heart risk by 50% in the first year alone by quitting the tobacco habit”. Smoking adversely effects your blood circulation and heart as it raises blood pressure and also causes blood clots. These two things are the major heart disease risk. Quit smoking, say good bye to nicotine and your heart is safe!

Though heart diseases are better treated only if diagnosed well, but it can get complex if not identified initially. Good diagnosis happens to be done in a good hospital of course, but few things if identified at home, can help you have precautionary measures.

Here’re few common symptoms that can be observed in heart patients:

• Leg cramps during walking
• Chest pain
• Shortness of breath
• Headaches
• Dizziness
• Palpitations
• Loss of consciousness

For heart patients, soy products, green leafy vegetables and other low cholesterol food is said to be the most effective one. A vegetarian diet, according to experts reduces the cholesterol level to one third.

Red pepper, broccoli, soy products, oats, bran, cereal and whole wheat bread, fresh fruits and nuts are good low cholesterol diet. Some of the mentioned food items can reduce the cholesterol up to seventy percent.

Garlic helps you having good care of your heart, so include it in your diet. Here’re some ways in which it helps:

• It promotes better blood flow.
• Ingesting Allicin daily helps to prevent the formation of plaque in the blood, which is the leading cause of strokes.
• Allicin works as an effective blood thinner and thus helps to improve blood circulation, reduces strain on the heart, and lowers the risk of heart attacks.
• Garlic also helps to normalize the arteries that are already blocked. A study at Tagore Medical College in India found that eating garlic regularly not only helps to keep arteries in good health, but also helps to reduce the degree of blockage of the arteries.