sleep less than seven hours a day. The quality of sleep matters, too. Sleep is divided into REM and non-REM sleep cycles, which refer to the rapid movements of your eyes. During non-REM sleep, slumber is deeper, helping you physically heal.
Sleep brings AHA’s previous 2010 list from seven to eight factors, which also include maintaining a healthy diet, exercising regularly, avoiding nicotine, having a healthy weight and blood pressure, and having healthy levels of blood lipids and blood glucose. There are other fresh revisions to that checklist, too. One is changing how people track their diet. “We are recommending a 16-item questionnaire that can be used at regular intervals to assess healthy dietary habits that focuses on weekly amounts of food,” Eduardo Sanchez, the AHA’s chief medical officer for prevention, told. Another change is expanding the category of avoiding nicotine to include vaping and secondhand smoke.
One of the goals of the checklist is to measure heart health early in kids, and help them maintain their hearts as they age. “We’re losing a lot of cardiovascular health in the eating patterns as our kids age into later childhood and adolescence,” said Lloyd-Jones. “When we create healthier kids, they become healthier adults who then go on to have healthier pregnancies, and the benefits continue with their kids being healthier simply because their parents were healthier.
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