Before you do any heart attack prevention, it's better if you know and understand your risks first. Then do something about them. Do your researches, consult with your doctor, make a planning, and commit to it.

Heart attack prevention doesn't always have to be complicated. At first, you may feel that way, because there're so many things that you have to adjust. Some people find that changing their habits are quite difficult, others may find it quite easy. What you need to do just do it once at a time, until they automatically become your lifestyle. Finally, you have a heart healthy life without even realize it and you enjoy it.

Having an emergency action plan is important if you or one of your families actually has a chance to have a heart attack, especially if you have heart attack family history. So when it happens, you or the rest of the member won't get panic and know what to do. This should be included in your heart attack prevention plan.

Your heart attack prevention plan may include these basic things:

* Stop your smoking habit. It is consider on the top list because, it's realized as the most preventable factor and decrease your risk dramatically within one year since you quit.
* Find your own healthy diet with fruits, vegetables, food that are rich in antioxidants, whole grains, low fat food, lower in salt (which can cause high blood pressure). You may discuss them with a nutrition professional.
* Drink a lot of water. You need at least 8 ounce glasses or 1/2 gallon of water everyday.
* Drink alcohol at moderate level. One or two a day would be enough for men, but only one for women.
* Do some exercises. It's important to do it regularly. 30 minutes a day, 3-5 times/week is considered enough. You can do any of these things: walking, walking your dog, tai chi, aerobics, bicycling, running, or taking the stairs. Doing this will increase your blood flow and make your heart stronger, help to lose weight, lower high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and reduce stress and many other tremendous health benefits.
* Lose weight. To be overweight can give you extra burden to your heart and blood vessels. On the contrary, ideally 10% weight loss will give you significant effects, however any small changes can be helpful also.
* Manage your stress. Every second in a day we have to deal with our stress. Without the right management, it can develop to vascular inflammation then finally lead to heart attack.
* Take some natural supplement, especially for your heart health. With today improvement in supplement world, you may want to take advantages of this. Heart health supplement is recommended for heart attack prevention and can help you enhance your heart health too.
* Get heart measurement such as blood pressure every 2 years and cholesterol level every 5 years. Try to control them also.
* Control your diabetes.

Remember, that the more you do what in a heart attack prevention plan, the more you will reduce your risk.