With a new year here, it is time to continue with or create new healthy habits to keep your heart and body health.

Here are 5 tips you can follow to help keep your heart healthy.

1. Stay Active

Exercising daily can reduce your risk of heart disease. Going for a run or walk or doing an at home workout are great ways to reach the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day. Check out the videos at www.reydonstreet.com.au/services/staying-healthy-exercising-and-eating-well/ to learn more about how you can stay active.

2. Eat a heart-healthy diet

It’s easy to snack when working from home or in the afternoons. However, to maximise heart health, it’s important to eat a healthy diet and enjoy a variety of nutritious foods. Eating plenty of fruit and vegetables and healthy fats will help keep your heart healthy. Also limit processed food which is usually high in both sugar and salt. For more information visit   https://www.healthier.qld.gov.au/food/.

3. Keep your distance and wash your hands

To keep yourself and those around you safe, maintain 1.5m distance from other people and regularly wash your hands. Always squeeze and cough into your elbow or a tissue and try to avoid touching your face.

4. Remain aware of your health state and stay connected with your doctor at Reydon Street as needed.

We continue to help and support our patients even during lockdowns using telephone consultations. If you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19, heart problems or generally feeling unwell, it’s important to contact your doctor. If you have respiratory symptoms, have been at high-risk locations or are unable to come into the practice, connecting with your doctor remotely is now easier than ever via telephone consults. You can book online here: www.reydonstreet.com.au/billing-arrangements/bookings/.

5. Get enough sleep

The COVID-19 pandemic has been incredibly stressful and unsettling, resulting in countless sleepless nights for some people. Adequate sleep is critical for maintaining good heart health, so it is important that maintain a normal routine and get 7-9 hours of sleep a night. See our Mental health and Wellbeing pages to access more information about sleep here: https://www.reydonstreet.com.au/services/mental-health-mt-gravatt/.

These five tips are easy ways to help keep your heart and body healthy.

If you want to speak to a doctor about your heart health or want advice on how to implement these tips, book an appointment with one of our doctors today. Book here: www.reydonstreet.com.au/billing-arrangements/bookings/