Showing posts with label Health tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health tips. Show all posts

Friday, June 4, 2010

Symptoms of Heart attack

Symptoms of Heart attack
You must have thorough knowledge about some common Symptoms of Heart attack / ailments. It is necessary to be rightly informed to the Doctor rather than panic at in slightest chest pain or discomfort if you feel. In case you have a family history of heart problems it becomes important to be alert about symptoms.

If you feel pain in the chest when angry or while climbing stairs then it is a genuine cause for concern.

It is also a matter of concern if the pain occurs in the centre of the chest.
If the pain starts from anywhere between the neck and the upper abdomen, do not neglect it.

Some times the pain can travel down to the arms and in some cases to the left or the lower jaw. This pain can be associated with the heart.

If the pain starts from the finger tips of your left hand and move towards the elbow and further upward it can be a sing of angina. It requires immediate medical attention.

If you feel a peculiar kind of sensation in your entire body accompanied by sweating even in winters and also have feeling of collapsing, it can be a symptom of heart attack.

For men who have crossed 25 with a waist line of more than 36” and women who has crossed 35 with a waistline of over 32” they are prone to heart attack or ailment.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Top 10 tips to keep your heart healthy

Top 10 tips to keep your heart healthy

Hi friends, in this post, I am going to give you top 10 tips to keep your heart healthy. If you follow them in your daily life, you will live a healthy life.

1. Exercise regularly at least 30 minutes a day which may include yoga,
breathing exercise and most importantly meditation. While exercising, do
combination of aerobic exercises such as brisk walking at a speed
of at-least 4 km/hrs.

2. Keep your weight in control proportionate to your height. For men, the
wait/hip ratio should be less than 0.90-0.95 cm and for women 0.83-0.90.

3. You must withdraw from the habit of tobacco consumption.

4. The following feelings like hostility, depression, stress, and anger are
poison for you.

5. Avoid consumption of full cream milk and excessive red meat. Use olive,
soya bean or mustard oil for cooking.

6. Make it a habit to have seasonal fruits and green leafy vegetables as part
of your diet.

7. Drink plenty of water all through the day.

8. Alcohol consumption should be restricted to two small drinks a day. If you
are a habituated drinker develop taste for cocktails.

9. Regular intake of almonds and nuts is also helpful.

10.After attaining the age of 35 years a complete health check up is a must for
every year.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Tips to lose weight



If you plan to lose weight, you will have to be careful about many things. Ignorance in dieting can be very injurious to health, and permanently handicap a person. It can affect your health in general. Out of sheer disgust you can be tempted to go in for a course of sever crash dieting; but it never pays in the long run. as the loss of weight will be temporary, and show more on the face than on the body which was not the aim in the first place.

The most sensible way to diet is to first study what you require by way of nourishment to keep your body health. Select our food according to vitamins, proteins, minerals and starches. Make sure you eat at least one food item of each to see that there is no deficiency of any form. Eating less of everything is not harmful, but eliminating the essentials from your diet is ad. Dieting is a difficult process, for you have to be more careful about the quality of food you eat. Despite dieting your body should be able to perform it normal, healthy functions. So start by cutting down ( and please note that I am not suggesting cutting out) on sweets, starches, nuts, sweet drinks, coffee, tea, cake, pastries, potatoes, rice and fried items in between meals. So once you have formed this habit, you will stabilize your weight. Now introduce some exercises to your daily routine, but do this very gradually, increasing them to about 15 minutes a day. Follow the exercises without fail. You must weigh yourself before starting on a diet so that you are encouraged by the results from time to time.