Life After Heart Attack!

By: Ng Peng Hock

A neighbor of mine was home after a massive heart attack, caused by a very large, evil blood clot. According to what she understood from her cardiologist, a very large part of her heart was irreversibly damaged, and her life was going to have a change for good. No more smoking. No more red meat and shellfish such as crab, lobster, prawns and oysters, because they contain too much bad cholesterol. All the things that she liked were taken away. But she did not really care; she was too busy smiling.

She was only 33 years old and admitted that things could have been worse. Recalling back on her lifestyle, the way she worked and the way she ate. What if this heart attack occurred when she was 40, 53 or even older? She could then less fit or obese because of more cigarettes smoked or more roast beef eaten, and she could have been dead. Although she felt tired, weak, and a bit dazed but she was fortunate to be alive.

She admitted that she had this strange feeling whenever she hears some people talking about how they want to quit smoking, or lose weight; she has the urge to lean forward and recommends that they should have a mild heart attack. “Just a teensy little one, you know, just to clear the system”. Evangelism can be a wonderful thing, but it is positively frightening when it is that misplaced. Fortunately, nothing of this sort has ever happened.

She strongly believes that her heart attack was a warning, a severe, well deserved kick in the pants for being an irresponsible, nicotine-inhaling, grease-eating, beef-devouring, exercise-hating, computer-hugging loser. She very much treasures the second chance she had. She calls this her second life and she is going to live it well.

But she understands that her reincarnation is not going to be easy. She has to forget about what she used to do in the past: smoking a cigarette after a great deep-fried, soft-shell crab or other similar cholesterol-rich dinners followed by creamy desserts. But then, she figures that she had eaten some of the richest food in the world and she paid handsomely for it in the worst way possible. It is good that she can try a different lifestyle from now. Do not feel upset or miserable if you could eat wonderful things that she eat now, even with a diet as restricted as hers. Considering what she had experienced and what she had suffered, you should be smiling too and feel happy with the diet you are having right now.

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Treating High Blood Pressure: Tips For Diet Discipline

By: Ashish Jain -

Food is your enjoyment. Food is your suffering. Food is your bondage. Food is your liberation.

Well, the above statements may look a bit confusing to you at first. But if you carefully analyze and understand them, you will realize the truth beneath.

Your dietary discipline plays an important role in controlling high blood pressure. Apart from the food, the timings of the food are also important for you. Food discipline is part of your life now. You need to formulate a mean plan, in consultation with your dietitian.

Here are some tips that will help you form a healthy diet chart as per your blood pressure condition.

1. The best for you is to depend upon salads, green vegetables and seasonal fruits. Tomatoes are reported to be very effective in controlling high blood pressure.

2. Eat food that is low in cholesterol and fat. Instead of depending upon spices heavily, use herbs as well. You need to depend upon vegetarian food, even though there is no bar on light non-vegetarian food like fish which has high nutritional value.

3. Cereals are no bar for blood pressure patients, but switch over to sprouted ones. They are easy to digest and rich in the fiber content. This is important as it helps you stay away from constipation.

The blood pressure patients should never suffer from constipation. Proper digestion of your eats is the important criterion. Impurities within the system means impurities within the blood. Anything that hinders the free flow of blood in the arteries and veins is going to cause you problems of blood pressure.

4. Make potassium a must part of your diet. To manage blood pressure you need to have appropriate level of potassium in your food. Include lots of fruits in your diet for this.

5. There are many vegetables which are known blood-purifiers. Carrot is one such food which helps you monitor your blood pressure level.

6. Regular consumption of honey early in the morning on empty stomach, with a little bit of lime juice added to it is good for the blood pressure patients.

7. And last but not the least, pick the food items that are low in salt and sodium. Most of the Americans eat too much of the salt than required. So, talk to your doctor and learn the ways of cutting salt in your food.

Food is your enjoyment. Food is your suffering. Food is your bondage. Food is your liberation.

Well, the above statements may look a bit confusing to you at first. But if you carefully analyze and understand them, you will realize the truth beneath.

Your dietary discipline plays an important role in controlling high blood pressure. Apart from the food, the timings of the food are also important for you. Food discipline is part of your life now. You need to formulate a m…

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Smoking With High Blood Pressure Is Even More Injurious To Your Health!

By: Ashish Jain -

If smoking, blood pressure, stress and headache were the candidates for Presidential Elections in the US who will win? Make a guess.

Jokes apart…All will lose deposits. No one likes them, for the simple reason that millions are affected by them and suffer on the account of them. They are all most unwanted. You wish to get rid of them but may not actually know it.

High blood pressure which is also known as hypertension in medical terms has affected millions in the US. The estimated figure is 80 million! Many of these, and their number also runs into millions, do not know that they have blood pressure.

The identifiable symptoms of blood pressure are constant headache, difficulty in breathing and feeling dizziness. Smoking is definitely harmful in the state of high or low blood pressure. It is an accepted fact that smoking increases the possibilities of heart attack. The reason is simple enough to understand. Nicotine in cigarette and other tobacco products constrict one’s blood vessels and the heart thus beats faster which is not good for the high blood pressure patients. Further, smoking creates complications in the lungs and in the vascular system.

In fact the thread bare analysis- whether smoking, alcohol, coffee, tea, are good or bad in the condition of blood pressure is meaningless. They are all equally bad. The loyal agents of the dreaded nicotine therefore deserve nothing but condemnation. Any soft attitude towards the products of such classification is not going to help the cause of your health.

And if you are the jack of all trades and are indulged in activities such as drinking coffee, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes, you are a certain candidate for blood pressure. You also become a possible candidate for future heart attacks and other lung problems!

Stress and headaches are the natural outcome of blood pressure. These three are so closely interrelated that it is difficult to pinpoint which is the direct cause of which disease or imbalance.

Now the question arises how to treat this smoking habit, blood pressure, stress and headache all together? Seemingly they look different, but all of them belong to the same root. So, “positive lifestyle changes” is the only answer!

Your one negative trait may be the cause of several diseases. Similarly one positive trait may be the cure for several diseases. Believe me just one positive lifestyle change may initiate a series of changes in your health. That too all naturally, and for the better!

If smoking, blood pressure, stress and headache were the candidates for Presidential Elections in the US who will win? Make a guess.

Jokes apart…All will lose deposits. No one likes them, for the simple reason that millions are affected by them and suffer on the account of them. They are all most unwanted. You wish to get rid of them but may not actually know it.

High blood pressure which is also known as hypertension in medical terms has affected millions in the US. Th…

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Have You Bought A Personal Blood Pressure Kit?

By: Ashish Jain -

When there is ‘unrest’ in the blood flow, the blood begins to attack the arteries, and when you feel the sense of pounding within, you have blood pressure. There may be two important causes for blood pressure: When the heart pumps the blood in the circulatory system of your body, alternatively when the arteries are unable to take on the pressure and they offer stiff resistance!

The various apparatus designed for the benefit for the blood pressure patients, form part of a blood pressure kit.

Do not think that an individual with blood pressure is a tense individual, with an agitated look on his face. High blood pressure is a very deceptive disease. It is also known as a silent killer. In medical terms, blood pressure is referred as hypertension. You may have blood pressure for years, and yet you may know nothing about it.

The only way to know whether you have blood pressure is to check it. Wrong blood pressure count may cause you unnecessary tension. Therefore, get it checked by a qualified medical practitioner. Yearly check ups are advised, if you are sure of having no health problems.

Different types of home blood pressure testing tools are available in the market. It is the expert opinion now that to have the blood pressure measured at home is far better than to have it checked at the doctor’s chamber.

Even though there is initial investment to buy a home blood pressure kit, in the long run, it is worth it. For the simple reason that when you buy a kit, it becomes a family property and every member of the family can take advantage out of it. To become health conscious, is winning half the battle.

The patients of blood pressure run into millions, all over the world. “Blood pressure industry’ is no more a small scale industry. It is a large scale industry. The models of kits are many. There are electrically operated blood pressure monitors, battery operated and the manual, ranging from $25 to $300. Finger or wrist devises to monitor blood pressure are not up to the mark. They are extremely sensitive to the body temperature, and as such, their reading may be misleading.

If you go for the cuff, take care to buy the right size cuff. Take advice from your doctor as for the right size of cuff. If the size of the cuff is wrong, the reading of the blood pressure is also wrong.

Even with the regular to use of the cuff or any other instrument in the home kit, once in a while, tally your reading with the professional reading at the doctor’s chamber.

When there is ‘unrest’ in the blood flow, the blood begins to attack the arteries, and when you feel the sense of pounding within, you have blood pressure. There may be two important causes for blood pressure: When the heart pumps the blood in the circulatory system of your body, alternatively when the arteries are unable to take on the pressure and they offer stiff resistance!

The various apparatus designed for the benefit for the blood pressure patients, form part of a b…

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Varicose Vein Treatment

By: Desperado

Varicose veins are the result of normal veins being exposed to high pressure over a prolonged period of time. Varicose veins develop when you have faulty valves in your veins and weakened vein walls. When these valves do not function properly, the blood cannot overcome gravity’s effects and begins to flow backward and pool in the veins. Because of that pressure builds up and the veins become enlarged, weakened and twisted. As a result the veins become more visible under the skin. Varicose Veins become more prevalent with age and have been reported to affect from 30-60% of the adult population. Varicose veins primarily affecting women.

Signs and symptoms of varicose veins

* Aching pain
* Legs that tire easily
* Leg swelling (usually feet and ancles)
* Redness and heat in the irritated area
* Heaviness in legs
* Skin darkening
* Tingling or burning sensations
* Muscle cramps
* Itching skin

Causes of varicose veins

* heredity
* hormonal factors
* pregnancy
* ageing
* obeseness
* leg injury

People who are overweight or people who are working while standing for a longer time might get varicose veins. Pregnancy,pre menstruation, and menopause are some of the factors in women that influence varicose veins. During pregnancy, hormones relax the veins and more blood travels through the veins. Varicose veins often develop during pregnancy and resolve shortly after childbirth. Lack of exercise, prolonged constipation, and sitting with legs crossed can compound the problem.

Varicose veins treatment
The treatment of varicose veins varies per patient. The most common surgical treatment includes stripping of the long and/or short saphenous veins. Treatment programs such as sclerotherapy, laser surgery, surgical vein stripping,ambulatory phlebectomy and endoscopic vein surgery are tailored to each individual. Patients may receive a combination of treatments, and most patients participate in some self-care therapies as well. Self-help measures - such as wearing elasticised compression stockings, regular exercising, controlling and if necessary your losing weight, not wearing tight clothes, avoiding long periods of sitting or standing - can ease pain and prevent varicose veins from getting worse.

What can be done to prevent varicose veins?
Prevention for varicose veins initially begins with the wearing of support hosieryor compression stockings. They can significant improve circulation of blood. Wearing properly fitted therapeutic compression hosiery, especially during pregnancy, may help lower the risk of thromboembolic disease. Healthy diet is also appreciated if you like to avoid the occurrence of varicose veins. Weight reduction in patients with obesity may reduce valvular incompetence by reducing intra-abdominal pressure. Regular exercising such as walking, bicycling, and swimming are recommended for varicose veins. Limiting excessive standing or sitting may be helpful in alleviating symptoms. Since the above measures do not treat the underlying cause of the disease, varicose veins will usually enlarge and worsen over time.

Varicose veins are one of the most common problems of blood vessels. Approximately 40 million people in the United States have varicose veins. Varicose veins are common in older adults (Most people with varicose veins are between ages 30 and 60), especially women (the condition occurs four times more often in women than in men). It is estimated that in USA about 19% of men and 36% of women have varicose veins.

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Winning Over High Blood Pressure

By: Ashish Jain -

There is direct relation between alcohol and blood pressure. Not a happy relationship. You pay for the alcohol and buy blood pressure and again pay for treating the blood pressure! The double loss game!

This is just one strong reason. The disease of blood pressure is due to various other reasons. The crush of the materialistic modern civilization is too much to bear in the metropolitan cities. The modern modes of relaxation have capacity to create further tension! Take for example, one of the entertainment utility-Television!

If you view the News Channel, your mind is likely to get more agitated. Instead of peace of mind, you get piece of mind!

These problems are interrelated and it is difficult to segregate the cause and effect, once you are trapped. For example, too much of alcohol, is the cause of high blood pressure. It is also responsible for weight increase.

Weight increase in itself is the cause of blood pressure. If you take medication for weight loss, again it has the potentialities for side effects. To treat the side effects, your doctor will again give some more medicines. The vicious cycle goes on. You will soon reach a stage, where you suffer form all sorts of deficiencies and diseases.

Blood pressure is only the cover. It has a solid back-up. Many serious, life-threatening diseases are waiting in the side-wings to take over once you are a patient of high blood pressure. They are heart diseases, heart attack, kidney failure, nervous breakdown and many others.

Forget medications for a while. I am not telling you that they are of no use. But the strategy of the moment is to change your lifestyle. Change in your food habits. Think positively that you are capable of beating blood pressure. Just give up junk food for ever. That is one of the contributing factors for your constipation, which again is one of the reasons for increase in your blood pressure.

If you are taking more than 2 spoonfuls salt per day, it is time to cut it. Give up processed foods and switch over to fruits and vegetables. Limit the sweets. Have a regular schedule of exercises. Meditation, breathing exercises, cycling, jogging, brisk walking, all these count a lot in reducing your blood pressure.

Along with the changed habits, develop a habit of thinking positively. Your supreme will power can cure any type of blood pressure.

There is direct relation between alcohol and blood pressure. Not a happy relationship. You pay for the alcohol and buy blood pressure and again pay for treating the blood pressure! The double loss game!

This is just one strong reason. The disease of blood pressure is due to various other reasons. The crush of the materialistic modern civilization is too much to bear in the metropolitan cities. The modern modes of relaxation have capacity to create further tension! Take for…

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Expert Outlines Five-step Approach To Optimal Heart Health

By: Stacey Moore

Alan Flood, 58, has a good reason to be concerned about his heart. A few years ago, poor lifestyle choices and diet contributed to major heart problems. Flood knew he needed to make changes to improve his health.

For many, this can seem like a daunting task. However, nutrition expert Lynn Laboranti, M.S., R.D., maintains that it’s never too late to strive for optimal heart health. She offers the following five-step approach to help get your ticker in tip-top shape:

Step 1: Move It and Lose It. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), losing as little as 10 pounds can drastically reduce the risk of a heart attack. Daily aerobic activity, such as walking or swimming, will increase your fitness and help keep your heart in shape. Remember that every bit helps.

Step 2: Expand Your Palette. Eat a rainbow of fresh foods to get a wide variety of nutrients. Heart-healthy foods like garlic, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish with beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, a handful of walnuts and even an occasional glass of red wine can be beneficial when added to a well-balanced, low-fat/low-cholesterol diet.

Step 3: Strive for a Perfect 10. Statins, or cholesterol-lowering drugs, are used by approximately 20 million Americans. Health experts found that statins deplete the body’s stores of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a vitaminlike substance found in every cell in the body and responsible for boosting energy and providing powerful anti-oxidant heart protection against free radicals. Laboranti suggests taking a maximum-strength supplement such as Nature Made CoQ10 400 mg for optimal heart health.

Step 4: Put It Out. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in the U.S. Cigarette smokers are twice as likely to die from coronary heart disease as nonsmokers, says the AHA. But a Surgeon General’s report found that after one year off cigarettes, the excess risk of heart disease caused by smoking is reduced by half. Set up a plan to help you quit successfully.

Step 5: Stress Less. Stress-related complaints make up nine out of 10 visits to primary care physicians, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Besides challenging the immune system and affecting mood, constant stress can also take a toll on heart health. Make note of your stress triggers and create a strategy for managing them. Try setting aside time for yourself every day.

Most importantly, consult a health care professional before starting any diet or exercise regimen.

Alan Flood, 58, has a good reason to be concerned about his heart. A few years ago, poor lifestyle choices and diet contributed to major heart problems. Flood knew he needed to make changes to improve his health.

To ask Lynn Laboranti a question, read additional articles on heart health and find information on vitamin supplements that can help, visit the Nature Made Wellness Advisor at www.NatureMade.com.

Exercise, a balanced diet supplemented with anti-oxidants and not smoking can do your heart good.

Tips To Help You Be A Smarter Snacker

By: Stacey Moore

Here’s some good news to chew on: If you make a few simple changes in your daily routine, you can help reduce your risk of heart disease. Take snacking, for example. You don’t have to pit tasty treats against good health. Try these tips from the American Heart Association to help you select healthier snacks:

Reduce the “bad” fat. Eating food high in saturated fat, trans fat or dietary cholesterol-the “bad” fats-raises your blood cholesterol level, which is a major risk factor for heart disease. Read the Nutrition Facts panel on packaged foods to find out how much “bad” fat is in the product.

Check for the “heart-check mark.” An easy way to find heart-healthy foods in your grocery store is to look for the American Heart Association’s red heart with a white check mark. This icon is on products certified to be low in saturated fat and cholesterol. Visit heartcheckmark.org to find a complete list of more than 800 heart-healthy foods.

Keep moving. Physical activity helps raise HDL (good) cholesterol. Plus, it’s beneficial for controlling weight and can also help control blood pressure.

Try to get at least 30 minutes of physical activity, such as brisk walking, on most or all days of the week. If you can’t devote a full half hour, try for three 10-minute intervals of activity.

Concerned about cholesterol?

• Get a cholesterol screening. You should have your cholesterol checked at least every five years starting at age 20. It should be checked more often if you have high cholesterol or are at higher risk. Follow your healthcare professional’s recommendations.

• Know your history. Although a healthy diet can help many people prevent or manage high cholesterol, heredity plays a role, too. Be sure to tell your doctor about your family history so he or she can assess your disease risk.

Here’s some good news to chew on: If you make a few simple changes in your daily routine, you can help reduce your risk of heart disease. Take snacking, for example.

For more information about reducing your risk of heart disease and stroke visit american heart.org or call (800) AHA-USA1 for your free copy of the “Shop Smart with Heart” brochure.

To make healthy grocery shopping even faster, go to heartcheckmark.org to create your free, personalized list of heart-healthy foods you can print and take with you.

Visit heartcheckmark.org to find a complete list of more than 800 certified heart-healthy foods.

Diagnostic Set Blood Pressure Monitor: A Must Buy For High Bp Patient

By: Ashish Jain -

High blood pressure and low blood pressure have become the common ailments in this modern era of cut throat competition in our materialistic civilization. You have moved away from the nature in every aspect of your life. You are living in a polluted environment, depending mainly upon junk food items for nutrition; you are always in a hurry to compete your office work early; you sit before the glaring light of the TV set to hear the most disturbing news stories of the day; you are worried about the dwindling savings and the approaching retirement; the cost involved in providing higher education to your children is mind boggling ? with such threats around you, who else, apart form you, would be an eligible candidate for problems related to blood pressure?

There are several types of instruments that can help you to keep a track of your blood pressure. Some of these are:

1. Diagnostic set blood pressure monitor, generally provided with one set of spare earpiece and a diaphragm
2. Sphygmomanometer Blood Pressure Monitor
3. Diagnostic Instrument
4. E.N.T’s Set
5. Otoscope (Aeroscope)
6. Heine Kappa Diagnostic Set
7. Manual Digital Blood Pressure Monitor
8. Automatic Digital Blood Pressure Monitor
9. Halogen Diagnostic Set
10. Smart Speed Digital Blood Pressure Monitor with Automatic Inflation

Instruments like diagnostic set blood pressure monitors are very useful to those patients, who have dangerous blood pressure levels. In many cases, monitoring might be required daily, sometimes, several times in a day. You can’t run to your family doctor, which in itself, is a time-consuming and stressful activity, every time for a check up. It is a psychological relief when you know how to check your blood pressure yourself. By doing so, you actually see for yourself the way your blood pressure is progressing. Or you can give correct information to your family doctor over the phone, without bothering about going to his/her dispensary.

High blood pressure and low blood pressure have become the common ailments in this modern era of cut throat competition in our materialistic civilization. You have moved away from the nature in every aspect of your life. You are living in a polluted environment, depending mainly upon junk food items for nutrition; you are always in a hurry to compete your office work early; you sit before the glaring light of the TV set to hear the most disturbing news stories of the day; you…

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New Technology Offers Hope To Stroke Patients

By: Stacey Moore

There may be good news for stroke patients and their caregivers. A new device has been created that is said to offer those who have had a stroke new hope of regaining significant muscle movement, and with it, increased mobility and independence.

Stroke is the third-leading cause of death after heart attacks and cancer in the U.S., affecting some 700,000 Americans each year. Those fortunate enough to survive often face a number of challenges. While strokes cost the U.S. economy $56 billion a year, no price tag can accurately portray the psychological cost to the stroke patient-or to his or her loved ones and caregivers-when the patient is left wholly or partially paralyzed, and possibly also unable to communicate.

Until recently, the medical community believed it was not possible for the post-stroke brain to be, in essence, “rewired” to reconnect the immobile muscles. Physical therapists typically instructed patients who had lost control of their left hand to use their right, or vice versa, as a form of compensation.

Now, however, thanks to a new device called the NeuroMove, all that may be changing. The machine monitors a patient’s mental attempts to move his or her muscles. It uses electrodes, affixed to a problem area, to deliver safe electrical stimulation. At the same time, it monitors and analyzes neural activity, and distinguishes signals that indicate attempts by the brain to move the muscle. When a strong enough attempt is made, the device initiates muscle movement. Over time, the patient’s neural connections may be relearned and reestablished, and the affected muscles may once again be able to move on their own.

The device was created by a company called Zynex Medical that provides electrotherapy products and pain management systems for patients with functional disabilities.

In recent clinical trials, the NeuroMove helped 90 percent of the stroke patients regain significant muscle movement. It is FDA cleared for use with a doctor’s prescription.

Thomas Sandgaard, President and CEO of Zynex Medical, explains that the NeuroMove works by “stimulating and reactivating the muscles themselves, while reestablishing brain-muscle connections that can help restore the patient to a greater degree of voluntary movement.”

There may be good news for stroke patients and their caregivers. A new device has been created that is said to offer those who have had a stroke new hope of regaining significant muscle movement, and with it, increased mobility and independence.

For more information and a broad overview of stroke rehabilitation, visit www.neuromove.com.

A new device created to help stroke patients is based on the concept that neural connections may be relearned and reestablished.