Still, I felt normal accept for a few occasional headaches and backaches. But my routine health check up narrated a different story. It reads ‘hypertension with high cholesterol levels.’ When I ask my doctor what this means, he says, “It means you are approaching faster towards a heart attack or may be a stroke.” Now this is not pleasing to my ears as I also have a strong family history for the same, which means I am approaching towards the disease target at double speed.

"What can save me?" was my next question to my doctor to which he replies, "Simple lifestyle changes."

These simple lifestyle changes means increasing your physical activity (yes, those most averted regular exercise regime), right diet (yes, it means food you mother cooks), giving up on your addictions (yes, it means throwing away your cigarette packets and breaking alcohol bottles). But that is the only solution.

Though these simple tips sound very challenging, I am still ready to take this challenge step by step. I want live a life; I don’t want to be dead when I am still alive. I don’t want to slow down my progression towards heart disease or a stroke but I want to cease that speed for once and all, which I think I will be successful at with a little motivation and a lot of determination."

How many of you relate yourself to this man’s story? If you do in any ways then even you should initiate these lifestyle changes that will transfer you to a healthy pathway and save you from the diseased one. Work is workship but to work efficiently you need to be physically healthy and mentally sound.

This year the World Heart Day will be observed with the theme ‘Work with Heart’ which emphasizes on how you can take steps towards a healthier workplace which can reduce your risk to several diseases like heart diseases and stroke. The World Heart Day is a day to create public awareness of the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and to promote preventive measures. It is celebrated every year on the last Sunday of September.

This year remember this day by introducing healthy habits in your life for a better heart, for a healthier you and for that invincible productivity at your workplace!