Cardiac Informatics is Information About Heart Disease and Heart Attack
October 31st, 2009 — coronary heart disease, exercise
Sports scientists agree that cardio-boxing is one of the best forms of exercise, because it conditions the total body and provides a complete exercise for your cardiovascular and endurance systems.
The major benefits of cardio-boxing include:
- Increased Stamina
- Increased Strength
- Increased Speed
- Increased Coordination
October 30th, 2009 — Diet
If you eat when you’re bored
*Work for your food
If you’re munching just because you have nothing better to do, choose a snack that requires time and energy, such as microwave popcorn, unshelled nuts-even crunchy foods like carrots that involve a lot of chewing. “For me, it’s pistachios,” confesses Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., director of the Weight Management Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “I have to crack the shells open one by one, which forces me to eat slowly and be more conscious of how much I’m puting in my mouth.”
*skip Leno or Letterman
If you stay up late, there’s a food chance you’ll get a case of the munchies-and that can spell extra pounds. A 2004 University of Texas study found that nocturnal noshers end up eating more fat and calories than those who snack earlier in the day. “It’s very easy to overeat if you’re bored, especially if you’re doing something sedentary like sitting in front of the TV,” explains Abramson. A better move: Get in bed an hour earlier and catch up on your zzzz’s; several studies show a clear link between obesity and too little sleep (say, less than seven hours).
October 29th, 2009 — Diet
If you eat when you’re happy
*Be creative
The next time something fabulous happens-you get promoted, or your daughter makes the soccer team-invent a new kind of feel-good ritual. instead of treating yourself to a special dinner with your husband, take an afternoon off and spend it with him. To recognize your daughter’s accomplishment, join her in an activity like skating or biking. Begin to retrain your brain to celebrate without food.
*Plan ahead
Developing a popcorn strategy, for example, could save you from eating an entire bag at the movies. “If you tell your husband beforehand, ‘Ok, I’m only going to have two handfuls,’ you may actually limit yourself to that much,” explains Abramson.
*Learn how to party
If there are hors d’oeuvres, choose two of your favorites (and yes, one should be a veggie).Then eat just those items. Research shows that people who rely on a few diet staples are more likely to keep weight off than those who vary their foods. to prevent mindless grazing, stay more than an arm’s length away from any snack bowls. And if you get a good converstion going, put our plate down. “The more you focus on people, the more distracted you get, and the more you tend to eat,” explains Wansink.
October 28th, 2009 — Diet
Instead, help yourself to 12 strategies proven to beat emotional eating – and lose big
When I is in a good mood, I sit in front of the TV and munches on Lay’s Potato Chips. When I,m stressed at work, I get relief from black jelly beans and twizzlers, and when I,m bored, I turn to Snickers bars or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. So this past fall, when my husband was temporarily out of work, it was no surprise that I found comfort in food, “I would sit in my office thinking, how are we going to pay all our bills? While shoving cookies into my mouth. Within four months, I had gained 35 pounds.
Like many other women, I was wrestling with a powerful opponent: emotional eating. An Internet survey of 17,000 failed dieters (almost 90 percent of whom were women) found that virtually all of them had relapsed because of emotional issues. These stats don’t surprise Roger Gould, M,D., a UCLA psychiatrist who conducted the survey: “I often see clients who are committed to losing weight, but as soon as they get into a fight with their husband or have a bad day at work, they’ll plow through a whole box of donuts. From a very young age, we’re taught to use food as a psychological coping mechanism – it’s a reward if we,ve done well, or a comfort if we’ve had a tough day.”
October 27th, 2009 — Vitamin and Supplement
Most of us are low in vitamin D, which means we stand a greater chance of developing osteoporosis, certain cancers,heart disease, diabetes, and possibly asthma, arthritis, and multiple scleorosis. And here’s the kicker : Even if we follow the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) guidelines, we’ll still come up short. These were set 10 years ago, before research showed the many benefits of larger D doses. Recently, for example, a review of studies found that women with high blood levels of D had half the incidence of breast cancer as those with the lowest levels. Yet the national food and Nutrition Board, which sets the DRIs, has been dragging its heels about reassessing its guidelines.
October 26th, 2009 — Heart Disease, exercise
Do you want a healthy heart that mean a healthy life? You have to do this exercise. Whenever you’re busy, unable to get up early in the morning or have no time for gym just follow this 20 minute home exercise to stay healthy and fit.
1) Jog : in one place for 3 minutes
2) Jumping jacks: 25 repeats
When landing, bend your knees slightly to reduce the impact on knee joints.
3) Crunches : 15 repeats
Lie flat on your back with your knees bent. Place your hands behind your head with elbows pointing outwards. Support your neck with your hands. Keep your neck in a straight line with your spine. Flex your waist to raise the upper torso from the mat. Lower yourself until the back of your shoulders touches the mat.
Muscle worked: rectus abdominis
October 25th, 2009 — Healthy Food, high blood pressure
Here is a diet for high blood pressure, better doing this than taking drug.
The recommended diet: DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), effective as a therapeutic treatment for many people, without side effects.
Keywords of this diet is low in sodium. Within 4 weeks, if we are disciplined, then the blood pressure can fall. In addition, we should really say goodbye to a sweet snack and contains lots of salt. The diet also encourages us to increase the intake of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and dairy products are low in fat.
October 24th, 2009 — Healthy Food, cholesterol
If you want lowering your cholesterol, just a little change dietary patterns. Research shows that food can provide many benefits that can not be fulfilled even though drugs.
The recommended diet: Portfolio Diet (Can lower blood cholesterol levels as effectively as drugs)
High cholesterol? Have tried to consume reducing wheat and meat, but to no avail? Try and apply the Portfolio diet was found by David Jenkins, MD, PhD. DSc, a nutritionist from the University of Toronto, Canada.
October 23rd, 2009 — Healthy Food, diabetes
Now we can get more health benefits only through different types of food. More than just satisfying hunger.
In a matter of weeks, you can cure of diabetes, only a little change dietary patterns. This is not boasting or exaggerating. Research shows that food can provide many benefits that can not be fulfilled even though drugs. Including restore our health and vitality. Want to know what diet can provide many benefits that so magical? Let’s refer to the explanation below.
October 22nd, 2009 — Healthy Food, Heart Disease, cholesterol
Content of sterols in a variety of these foods can lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease by 20%. What needs to be purchased and how do I eat?
Give me a place in the kitchen cupboard for a variety of diseases repellent products, namely food sterols and stanols yield, which proved to protect the heart. Sterols and stanols found in fruits, vegetables, nuts and oils. Based on several studies published medical journals in America and Europe, adding only 2 g plant sterols and stanols in our daily diet for 2 weeks, cholesterol levels can drop to 10%. Numbers seem small and insignificant, but with just such a small amount of risk of heart disease could drop to 20%. For your information, today, heart disease is the number one killer of American States.
Following exposure will make us more aware of the workings of these two unique content, how they protect our health, and how to best integrate them into our diet.
Why is the news?
Scientists have actually known the benefits of plant sterols and stanols from more than five centuries ago. Unfortunately ingredients contained in natural foods are not high enough to reduce cholesterol levels (one tablespoon of corn oil, which is considered the best natural sources, only 0.13 grams of plant sterols, while the recommendation is 2 g daily). But, in the 1980s, chemists from Finland found a way to get extract sterols and stanols from plants and mixed into the food fat.
New mixture called sterols and stanols esters, first found in products such as margarine spreads in the year 2000. Now, thanks to the emergence of new technologies, the researchers could extract the sterols and stanols from various plants and more fortified foods, like cheese, orange juice, bread and egg-rotian. In the United States alone, the most famous brand of plant sterols can be found in various foods. Few years, global market researchers predict sterol-containing food products will reach the production value reached 250 million U.S. dollars, or nearly 3 times the amount diraup when there are new products on the market.
