Knowing how Healthy Is Your Heart With Easy!

To know the heart is still good job or not, researchers have tips are easy
enough to touch the toes. If your body is still flexible to reach your
toes, your heart is still quite healthy.

In the journal Heart and Circulatory Physiology mentioned that by testing
one element of the body (toe), a person can know his heart is healthy or
not, even in the midst of the holidays though.

It's easy, simply by sitting in the floor by straightening the front leg
and toes pointing up. After that try to reach out and touch toes with his
hands. If you are flexible enough to touch your toes means your heart is
healthy and flexible as well.

In their study, researchers from the University of North Texas and several
Japanese researchers recruited 526 participants between the ages of 20 to
83 years. Participants then take a test to measure the flexibility of the
body while blood pressure, the arteries and heart activity.

The result, researchers found a correlation between the body that are not
flexible with arteries that are not flexible, particularly in participants
over the age of 40 years.

Those who failed the test the flexibility of the body and failed to reach
the tip of your toes turned out to have stiff blood vessels, and means the
heart's ability to be less good, efficient and the risk of heart disease
increases.

Japanese researcher Dr Yamamoto said that, although the theory of the
relationship back and leg muscles with a muscle near the heart still vague,
but with this study is helpful.

Rigidity of back muscles, legs and heart vessels which are interconnected
because his colleague the same composition.

"If you can touch your toes while sitting straight, your heart is still
good enough. But if not, maybe you need to go to a cardiologist," said Dr
Yamamoto, a Japanese researcher, as quoted from the New York Times.

But do not ever mention Yamamoto stiff muscles is a sign of heart disease,
only the heart may be less fit and healthy just as they should be