Must of us know what a high caloric diet can do to our hearts. After indulging in such meals, our blood vessels constrict more and more. The long term effects of a regular consumption of a diet high on the calories scale can mean stress to our hearts.
But did you know mornings also add stress to our tickers? Mornings, particularly Monday mornings put us at a 20% risk for heart attacks to top off the already high 40% risk mornings the rest of the week bring us. Hormones are released into the blood as we awaken, thickening blood that is already thicker than normal as the result of minor dehydration that happens while we sleep. Easing into the morning helps your heart to get going more slowly and hormones to be released more gradually.
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