Dos and Don’ts To Prevent Heart Diseases

What is Heart Diseases?

Heart is a center of cardiovascular system, which pumps blood. Heart disease consists of a number of problems, which affects the heart and the blood vessels in the heart. Another name for heart diseases is cardiovascular diseases.
Heart attack, aneurysm, hypertension, stroke, atherosclerosis, Peripheral Vascular Disease are some of the common cardiovascular diseases. One can easily prevent from these heart diseases but he /she should follow the following guidelines:

Do’s to prevent heart diseases:

Healthy Diet

To prevent from heart disease you should reduce your cholesterol levels, control your blood pressure and blood sugar levels, and maintain a healthy weight. For that you should improve your diet it is an important step towards preventing heart disease. Here are some tips to improve your diet:

1. Limit the intake of solid fat.
2. Avoid saturated or Trans fats.
3. Make a smart choice.
4. Make healthy substitutions.
5. Use heart-healthy cooking methods.
6. Keep fruit and vegetables at your fingertips.

Exercise

Exercise is very much important for healthy life. It is found that people who exercise regularly are less pertinent to have cardiovascular disease. Exercise helps you control your weight and can decrease chances of developing other circumstances like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. It also aid to reduce stress, which might be a reason for heart disease.
Regular Health Screenings:

Your heart or cardiovascular system can be damaged due to High blood pressure and high cholesterol. Therefore you should go for REGULAR SCREENING to avoid these problems. It will help you to let you know and then you can take necessary actions. Below are some guidelines on screening test:

1. Maintain healthy cholesterol levels.
2. Monitor your blood pressure.
3. Manage stress and anger.
4. Control Coronary Calcium Score.
5. Exercise Stress Test.
6. Control your diabetes.
7. Keep a healthy weight.

Don’ts to prevent heart diseases:

Smoking / Tobacco

Smoking cause many diseases including heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. And the people who are associate with cigarette smoking are mostly suffering from breathing problems and lung cancer.
As smoke contains nicotine which causes heart disease.This nicotine is responsible for decreasing oxygen to the heart. It also increases blood pressure, heart rate and blood clotting. It damages the cell which line coronary arteries and other blood vessels.


Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

Drugs such as cocaine and amphetamines can cause irregular heartbeats and also lead to heart attacks. The risk of cerebral blood clot, stroke and infections of heart valve may be possible due to intake of intravenous drugs. Excessive intake of alcohol can destroy about every organ in the body including heart. In US alcohol abuse affects about 10% of women and 20% of men.

Weight Gain

Excess weight or obesity increases the risk of heart disease and pre and type 2 Diabetes. So try to reduce the weight as it may be very difficult to lose weight once it gained. A slight decrease in weight can help to reduce the problem of hypertension and cholesterol levels.

Thus by following above guidelines you can easily prevent from heart disease.  And enjoy healthy and happy life.

CELEBRATE THIS OLDER AMERICAN MONTH LIVING HEALTHY

 As we get older, we pray for long life that is healthy and free of disability or disease. But due to aging, our body becomes weak and unhealthy this bring many difficulties to survive the rest of life. As we see our senior’s citizen, whose health gets weaker day by day they suffer from aches and pains, which causes frustration in their life. 

 Thus, it is essential that our senior citizens should live healthy life as they are our ideal and we should not allow them to spend their retirement days in bed and hospital. So for that one should take care of their diet, physical and mental health. These are the some most important factors, which should not be avoided.

Here are some tips, which may help you to be healthy and live a beautiful long life:

1.Balanced Nutrition  
  One should select a balanced nutrition which  contains high fiber food like whole grain breads, cereals, beans, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruits, and vitamin B and D is also very much essential. As Vitamin B 12 plays an important role for proper functioning of blood and nerves.   

2.Hydration
 Proper hydration will keep your body functioning efficiently and assist in digestion and preventing constipation. Therefore, our senior citizen should be hydrated by drinking water and water based beverages like soup, fruit juice, tea, coffee etc.

3.Exercise
 Exercise plays a vital role in senior citizens life as it reduces the risk for medical conditions like heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and osteoporosis and many more. Daily exercise is essential for senior citizens as it not only keeps the body strong but also reduces the risk of injury that is related to age like osteoporosis.

4.Avoid smoking
  Smoking is very much dangerous to our health. So it should be avoided. As it causes many serious health problems like Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Respiratory Disease and many more.

5.Medical checkups
Regular Medical checkup is very much essential for senior citizen because it is only one source that will tell us about the health condition of our senior citizen.

6.Mental exercises
 Just as physical exercise, mental exercises also plays an important role in our body. Mental exercises are essential to control brain. As we get older, the function of brain decreases and the brain itself start shrink with age. So to overcome from this one should do mental exercise.

 Therefore, this is the month for the senior citizens.   Apply these activities into your daily life and this will keep your body and mind fit, Have gracefully aged life.

Health Tips for Women Over 40

As we know that diet and exercise are vital and plays an important role in every stage of life. But after the age 40 it become much more important for the women’s. As after 40, women’s suffer from many health problems like heart diseases, breast cancer, osteoarthritis, depression, insomnia, fatigue, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis and many more. So for to be healthy even after 40 you must need to be follow the following tips:

1.Change your diet to maintain a healthy weight:
Women’s after 40 should consume less calories and should make their diet schedule according to their physical activity.

2. Increase the Intake of calcium:
As the age of women’s increased, they should increase the consumption of calcium. As it is an important, constituent that helps in building bone mass. It is needed for healthy teeth, strong bone and also for proper function of nerves, muscles, kidneys and heart. It also helps to reduce the risk of osteoporosis.

3. Don’t forget physical activity:
Physical activity is very much important and beneficial for health. It helps to do following the thing:
1. Helps to recover self-esteem.
2. Boost fitness level.
3. Assist to build and maintain bones, muscles, and joints.
4. Prevents from weight gain.
5. Improve flexibility and posture
6. Helps manage, reduce weight.  
7. Lowers risk of heart disease, colon cancer, and type 2 diabetes.
8. Control blood pressure.
9. Helps to reduces depression and anxiety.

4. Quit smoking: 
Women's should avoid smoking because it effects on her fertility and reproductive health. It also causes lung cancer, cardio vascular diseases, osteoporosis, and cancer in breast. Habitual smoking also experience menopause. Therefore, the women’s should avoid smoking.

5. Don’t skip doctor’s visits: 
Do not skip your Medical checkup. Regular medical checkup is very much essential for women's health. Here are some of the essential doctor’s visits that should be never miss:

1. Primary care checkup:
Primary medical checkup depends on your age and personal risk factors. According to that doctor, decide the best treatment schedule for you. Always attend your medical examinations, even if you are feeling fine.


2. Eyesight checkup:
Eyesight checkup is very much important for the diabetes patient. Adults between 18 to 64 years should do their regular eyes examination.
It becomes essential for a person who is having family history of eye problems as they are having great risk of developing eye problems.

Therefore, by following the above steps women’s can live a good and healthy life.

Sexual Relationships are good for Skin

Sex is one of most important activity in our life.Sex not only plays an important role to improve one’s relationship but also beneficial to our skin. Sex is a called beauty treatment. The Research has found that when the women make sexual relationship they create amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes their skin smooth and shine.

Sex helps your skin to glow brighten. It is said that having sex improves blood circulation, which helps to drive oxygen to your skin which result in brighten skin. Sex also helps to wipe out toxins. Sweating while having sex purify the skin pores, making the skin brighter and reducing the risk of developing dermatitis. During the sexual play hormone are unrestricted, which helps your nails become stronger and smooth.

As the women get older, they become less sexual and hit their menopause as they have less hormones and once you hit menopause so you will notice that skin of your face become extremely dry.

Thus, sexual relationship can maintain your skin healthy.

Eyes – A Natural Gift.

Eyes are one of the most important organs in the human body and vision is one of the most wonderful gifts to human being. As it is, the most sensitive part of our body is needs lots of care and attention especially in this busy life style. But many people ignore the importance of eye care and do not pay proper attention towards eye care.

Now days we spend most of hours in front of computer, and with so much pollution in the atmosphere due to this eyes-related disease like poor vision and irritation in eyes have become common to all. So it becomes necessary to take proper care and attention of our eyes to keep it healthy and beautiful.

The following are some eye care tips for beautiful and attractive eyes:

• Start taking of vitamin A diet to make eyes brighter. Vitamin A includes papaya, eggs, fish, milk, and cilantro.

• Put sliced cucumber and potato over your eyes to treat dark circles.

• If your eye twitches, or eyes become red or feeling itchy so massage your scalp with curd.

• Dip a cotton pad in Luke warm milk and cover eyes with it for 15 min.

• Wash your eyes with cold water every day.

• If you are sitting continuously in front of computer for 4 to 5 hours, and you are getting several pains in your eyes, so blink your eyes 5 to 6 times. This will give you quick relief.

• To relax your eyes, rotate your eyeballs clockwise and anti-clockwise 10 to 15 times each.

• Breathing exercises and yoga’s are good for eyes.

       A part from this keeps some important points in your mind that will help you a lot.The points are as follow:

• Always keep your eyes clean

• Do not rub your eyes directly in a case some fine material enters into your eyes.

• Quit Smoking as it causes several eye related disease.

• Avoid stress and tension as it causes several diseases.

• Person suffering from diabetes should do regular eye exercise to keep their strong.

• Drink plenty of water.

These points will help us maintain our eyesight.