Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are three times vulnerable for the most expensive disease, HEART ATTACK. Marriages within close relatives (co-sanguinity) leads to congenital abnormalities.
It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person gets a cardiac arrest. Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights. When you are young, nature protects us against all these irregularities. However, as we grow older, u gotto respect the clock. That is why its recommended to everyone, past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups. Heart diseases are hereditary. Nature protects women till the age of 45. So the rate of heart attacks are more in men than in women. Changed lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters.
Never stress your heart. Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life. This could help your heart to de-stress. Regular exercise is always suggested and walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints.
Many docters suggest Routine check ups for blood test to ensure sugar and cholesterol are normal and also BP Chk is important. It is possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy. Extremely rare people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases. There is a relation between heart problems and blood sugar. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.
First Aid tips for attacks: Help the person into a sleeping position, put an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available. Rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour. A person can help himself during a heart attack. Do not wait for ambulance. Extremely difficult to differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble, without ECG.
Cholesterol accumulates in the body from childhood. Best n worst food for heart is fruits and oil. People beleive eating fish is good for heart... But its not. Most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe. Controling diet, walking and eat walnuts control cholestrol without using medicines. Yoga helps in heart ailments.
Sometimes, due to the hectic schedules we are not able to exercise. So, walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise. Avoiding sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot. You tend to eat junk food when the food habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.
Things one needs to take care of after a heart operation are Diet, exercise, drugs on time, Control cholesterol, BP, weight. Five thumb rules to take care of his heart:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar
BREAKFAST HELPS
Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death. Doctors advice on not to skip breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Recent research confirms that one of the worst practices you can develop is avoiding breakfast.
The frequency of heart attack, sudden death, and stroke peaks between 6:00a.m. and noon, with the highest incidence being between 8: 00a.m. and 10:00a.m. What mechanism within the body could account for this significant jump in sudden death in the early morning hours?
Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from bleeding to Death if we get a cut, clump together inside our arteries due to cholesterol buildup in the artery lining. It is in the morning hours that platelets become the most activated and tend to form these internal blood clots at the greatest frequency. However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning, does activate platelet that is associated with heart attacks and strokes .
Eating cerels such as oatmeal or corn flakes, along with grape juice or orange juice , and perhaps a piece of fruit is a healthy breakfast. This simple plan will keep your platelets from sticking together, keep blood clots from forming, and perhaps head off a potential heart attack or stroke. So never ever skip breakfast.
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