What are the main causes of poor heart health?

Heart disease is very common in the South and throughout America. Some of the risk is related to genetics that you can’t control, but much of it is related to lifestyle.

Factors such as eating a poor diet, not maintaining a healthy body weight, smoking, not controlling diabetes or high blood pressure, and not getting enough exercise all increase the risk of heart disease.

Maintaining a healthy body weight, limiting your salt intake, following a healthy diet, keeping your diabetes under control and quitting smoking can help prevent many forms of heart disease.