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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Checking Your Heart Health by Touching the Tip of Your Toes

Heart disease is a health problem that often occurs in some people lately. If you are worried about this situation and wanted to make sure everything is fine, you can try the following simple method. This method was found by a group of health researchers. You can do it at home.

The trick is to touch the tip of your toes. If you can touch it, it means you are in a good condition and your heart is still healthy, you do not have heart problems. A recent study suggested that this method really works.
Touch the toes / pic via huffingtonpost.com

How to do that?

Sit on the floor and straighten your legs. Make sure that your toes are pointing up. Try to reach out your toes and touch them with your hands. If you are easy to touch it, it means your heart in a healthy condition.

This research was conducted in the United States (North Texas). Involves about 526 participants with a range of age between 20-83 years. Their blood pressure had been checked when they become participants, as well as arteries and heart activity.

Based on observations, the researchers found an association between arterial elasticity and the body, especially for participants with age above 40 years. According to researchers, people who have heart disease can not touch her toes in this method.

You should immediately try this simple technique to find out if you have heart disease or not. If you can not touch your toes, you should immediately go to the doctor.
 
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