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6 Simple Rules to Heart Healthy Eating

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What's a healthy diet for the heart? This was an inferior, fat diet of cholesterol. Sadly, this response ended up collapsing. As a result, cholesterol-eating foods may not have much effect on your levels of cholesterol; but it has been terrible for our health to eat processed foods with a "low-fat" label. Controversial is the answer now to the issue of healthy cardiac diet. Is the carb low? Is it low? Vegan,   Mediterranean, plant, free of gluten, DASH?? Each diet has its advocates. The list goes on. But who is right? But who is right? The "experts" were not very helpful, unfortunately. Each of them appears to be researching and having reasons to' prove' why they have the best diet (and why buy them). I wasn't sure what I could tell my patients about a healthy heart diet some time ago. I have therefore done my research. I read important papers, participated in conferences, spoke to the experts and my patients to learn if I could make the...

6 Symptoms of Women's Heart Attacks

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In women it does not always feel the same thing as in men when a heart attack strikes. The classic symptoms of a heart attack, such as crushed chest pain, do not always affect the same women as men. These symptoms of heart attack can certainly occur to women, but many have vague or even "silent" symptoms that are missing. Six symptoms of cardiac attack are common among women: 1.        Disease or chest pain. Chest pain is the most common symptom of heart attack, but it can be experienced differently by some women than by others. It could feel like a squeeze or fullness, and it can be pain anywhere, not only on the left side, in the chest. 2.          Back, neck, or jaw, pain in your arm(s). In women this kind of pain is more common than in men. It could confuse females with their pain, not their back or jaw, with their chest and left arm. The pain can wax and diminish ...

Surprising Signs You Might Have Lung Cancer

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Cancer of the lungs is a common type of cancer that is associated with the human lungs. The human lungs are two spongy shaped organs in the chest that takes in oxygen when we inhale and expels carbon dioxide when we exhale.   Cancer of the lungs has been proven to be the major cause of death in many countries as it affects both men and women. It is more deadly than other diseases like colon, prostate, ovarian, and breasts cancers. The two general types of lung cancer include: Small cell lung cancer. This type of cancer is more evident in heavy smokers and is rarer than non-small cell lung cancer. Non-small cell lung cancer. This type of cancer is used to classify several types of cancers that have the same effect on the human lungs. It includes squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma. If you are looking at   the   best cancer hospital in India visit here Causes of lung cancer in nonsmokers: •     ...

WHAT CAUSES HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE?

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Hypertension also called high blood pressure, is a situation where an individual blood pressure is higher than the normal blood pressure of 140/90 mm Hg. The heart is responsible for distributing blood into various blood vessels, which transfer the blood throughout the entire body. There is a force that is being applied in pushing the blood against blood vessels walls, and this is known as the blood pressure. When the pressure gets too high which is called high blood pressure, it could make the heart work harder in pumping blood out to the body. This malfunction can be deadly to the body, it can cause the stiffening of the arteries, stroke, kidney disease, or other heart diseases. Symptoms ·          Severe headaches ·          Severe anxiety ·          Shortness of breath ·          Nosebleeds ·  ...