Kim Zolciak-Biermann Quotes

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.

Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart.

I don't think people realise how important it is to have your blood pressure checked. Stroke is so sudden, so catastrophic.

I am incredibly lucky to be alive because one in three people who have strokes don't make it.

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

I will never have a heart attack. I give them.

If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or aware of my symptoms. I had no idea that this could make me five times more likely to have a stroke than somebody who doesn't have this.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.

A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.