Men’s Health magazine has a truly fantastic and informative article on how to help your heart. They surveyed leading cardiologists at leading research institutes and put together five key tips on how to help the heart.

Over the past few years, cardiologists across the country have begun aggressively trying to prevent heart disease in at-risk men, rather than treating them only after their blood pumps have broken down. “My patients who follow a preventive treatment program almost always live free of heart attacks,” says Arthur Agatston, M.D., author of The South Beach Heart Program. To help you spot subtle risk factors and correct them before they bury you, we canvassed cardiologists at leading research institutes to compile this list of things they wish you knew.