Please share a tip in the form of a haiku on heart attacks.

A: A glass of wine a day is healthy. It can prevent strokes and heart attacks. Salute!

Watch: Watch cholesterol, especially LDL levels. Don't smoke. Daily Aspirin or plavix (clopidogrel). Exercise as tolerated.

Daily: Daily meditation or prayer is a good stress reliever and is good for post mi patients.

Do: Do limit protein from animal sources (meat & dairy).

Snack: Snack & improve cardiovascular health. Try dulse or kelp (contains Folic Acid & magnesium).

Quit: Quit smoking: 2-3 years later, the increased risk of heart disease will be back to baseline.

If: If you have heart disease, over half are prediabetic or diabetic. Check your hgba1c!

Maintain: Maintain a healthy weight to help reduce your risk of heart attacks.

Stopping: Stopping smoking now reduces your need for a cardiologist in the future.

You: You are aiming for longterm risk reduction. Lifestyle, followup on risk reduction, and education.

Brushing: Brushing and flossing every night adds 6 yrs to life expectancy by reducing cardiovascular mortality.

Eat: Eat healthy, exercise, lose wt. Take your meds. Control diabetes, hypertension & chol. Quit smoking.

Always: Always have a medical team at your side to ensure the best fight against heart disease.

Eat: Eat a heart healthy diet, exercise regularly, and take medicine on time.

There: There are no tricks, don't smoke, eat a mediterranean diet, get at least a half hour a day exercise.

Ignore: Quit smoking/aerobic exercise/get to ideal weight/take statins for cholesterol/take asa 81 mg/day.

Ignore: Daily baby Aspirin is one of your cheapest and most effective treatments.

Ignore: Eat a low fat, low salt, and healthy diet and get exercise.

Ignore: Don't mix nitrates with viagra! this can be deadly.

Ignore: Start a graded exercise program. Let someone know where you are when activity engaged.