In what ways does physical health affect cardiovascular health?

Answer 1

Your physial and mental health has an enormous impact on your cardiovasculr health!!! Regular exercise keeps your heart strong. A healthy diet (high in fruits, veggis, and whole grains, and low in sugars, salts, and fats) will prevent plaque buildup in your arteries and fat buildup around the hard-working muscles in your heart. Another important way your general physical health can affect your cardiovascular health is the way you respond to stressors (a stressor is any external or internal situation that causes stress, anywhere from losing your job to finding a spider in your kitchen). People who can respond to stressors in a calm, healthy manner will put less sress on their heart, prevent hypertension, and can slow down the aging process. Finally, SLEEP is an incredibly important and overlooked part of health that will affect your heart. Your heart is constantly beating; the only time it EVER gets rest is between each individual beat (so, not much). Your heart beats its slowest when you are asleep, so that is when your heart gets the most rest.

Answer 2

Physical activity increases heart strength in the cardiovascular system. During exercise, the cardiovascular system has to:

1) Deliver oxygen to working muscles

2) Oxygenate blood by returning it to the lungs

3) Transport heat (a by-product of activity) from the core to the skin

4) Deliver nutrients and fuel to active tissues

5) Transport hormones

*** it increases heart rate***

Answer 3

it makes you skinny

True ... but also...

The heart is in essence just a big muscle. As you will know, if you use a muscle a lot it gets bigger and stronger, and if you don't use it much it will become smaller and weaker. a weaker heart will need to beat more often even at rest and will find it hard to cope with sudden or prolonged activity.

This is fine if all you ever do is the same level of stress... but imagine a situation where you suddenly tried to lift a very heavy weight... you'd likely strain or even tear a muscle. If then you suddenly decided to sprint 100 metres when you spend your life on the sofa, there's a chance you could actually damage the heart or even kick off a heart attack.

In addition to the muscular side of things, a sedentry lifestyle will most likely mean you will become overweight and this is likely to include higher levels of cholesterol and the resultant blocking of veins and arteries. This means the flow of blood is restricted which can cause parts of the heart muscle to suffer or even die. Again this is very bad!

Smoking of course increases all these risks.

Take note of the 'don't suddenly sprint about' point above if you are considering getting into a fitness regime from doing nothing. Build it up gradually and you'll find it all gets easier the stronger your muscles and heart become.

Answer 4

In otherwise healthy individuals, physical activity tends to strengthen the cardiovascular system and causes the vital signs associated with it to decrease. For example, physical activity tends to strengthen the heart muscle, causing the heart to need to beat less often per minute to deliver the same amount of blood and resulting in a lower heart rate or pulse rate.

However, in individuals with severe cardiovascular or pulmonary disease, physical activity can incite a medical emergency such as hypoventilation or a stroke. In these individuals, the body is so weak that the additional stress of physical activity overloads the body's ability to adapt to the activity and in extreme cases can result in death. This is why most diet and exercise programs advise consulting your doctor prior to starting the program.