Heart disease

The most serious and most common, heart failure and acute myocardial infarction. There are also some mutations that deform the heart, causing the blood is not pumped properly, causing the individual to death.

Treatment and Prevention
Despite the increase in deaths from heart disease is a fact nowadays, every individual can benefit largely with the regular practice of physical exercise. For prevention of diseases, it is necessary to leave the side of inactivity. It is noteworthy that to stop being sedentary, according to the guidelines of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association, we should perform at least 30 minutes of continuous aerobic exercise or accrued (3 x 10 minutes or 2 x 15 minutes) five times per week.

By eliminating the lifestyle, risk factor for developing heart disease, the individual is replaced by a lower chance of developing heart disease, such as heart attacks. Based on data from the World Health Organization, the Ministry of Health reported that the entire Brazilian population do 30 minutes of exercise five times a week and eating patterns change favorably, could prevent 260 000 deaths per year from causes such as cancer and chronic coronary disease.
In addition, regular exercise helps to control the physical body overweight or obesity, hypertension, decrease stress, increase good cholesterol (HDL) and helps control blood sugar. To meet these goals, the individual may exceed the minimum recommendation, performing more than 30 minutes of exercise every day.

The recommended exercises are to move large muscle groups such as walking or jogging, cycling, swimming. But one should keep in mind that exercise intensity should be moderate, ie comfortable. A simple way to know if you are exercising is to observe your breathing comfortably. To effect that exercise has on your health is not necessary to be panting. One can not forget that the muscle strength is important and should be done at least twice a week. At the end of the exercise session should be performed stretching exercises, which will contribute to the recovery of the muscles and increase joint flexibility.

It's always good to remember that cardiology consultation is important for every individual who has risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol), or wishing to do more intense exercises such as playing football, basketball or competitive race.

The good news is that increased from 14.9% in 2006 to 16.4% in 2008, the number of individuals who exercise regularly in major Brazilian cities, according to a survey conducted in 26 states and the Federal District, between April and December 2008, by 54,000 telephone interviews (Study Vigitel). This is a good sign, but it certainly is not enough. So with the new policy of the national physical activities of the ministry of health in collaboration with the ministry of sports and exercises that encourage physical activity in parks and public spaces of cities, is expected to increase the number of individuals regularly active and improve health thereof.