You can do simple things each day to live longer, healthier, and happier. Try these:

• Get sweaty Regular, moderate to vigorous physical activity improves cardiovscular fitness and helps reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. Exercise fights high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, and lowers blood pressure. A minimum of 30 minutes of physical activity on most days of the week is recommended by the American Heart Association to condition the heart.
• Change your diet A healthy diet is important for maintaining or losing weight. Obesity places tremendous strain on your body and your heart.
• Quit smoking Smoking greatly increases your risk of illness and death from heart attack, stroke, and other diseases. The risk for heart disease and stroke drops as soon as a woman stops smoking. It is cut in half after one year without smoking and declines perpetually after that.