Let’s say you detected a lump in your breast. You’d probably call your gyno and have it checked out pronto. Yet we bet that you aren’t paying attention to another potential problem in your chest: your heart’s health.
But the fact is, you need to. Females are five times as likely to die from heart disease as they are from breast cancer. And though both conditions are rare in young women, your lifestyle habits now, when you’re in your 20s and 30s have a profound effect on your weight, cholesterol levels, blood-pressure rate, and stress levels—four factors that affect your odds of developing heart disease in as little as a decade, explains Nieca Goldberg, MD. Medical director of the NYU women’s Heart Center and author of Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health. Even if you spent your teens and 20s cultivating heart—harmful habits, you can undo some of the damage by taking the right steps now. Here, six moves to work into your routine today.
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