Important tips by Famous Heart Specialist - Dr. Deviprasad S

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A chat, arranged by WIPRO for its employees, with **Dr.Deviprasad
Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya (Famous Heart Specialist) Bangalore** ..* *
The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone. *

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Qn: What are the five thumb rules for a layman to take care of his
heart?
Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid
lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar

Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
Ans: No

Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy
person gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone
past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?
Ans: Yes

Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices
do you suggest to de-stress?
Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in
everything in life.

Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise
required to keep a healthy heart?
Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early
fatigue and injury to joints .

Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired
you to do so?
Ans: Mother Theresa, who was my patient.

Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
Ans: Extremely rare

Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age (I'm
currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?
Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.

Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart?
Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your
body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.

Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.

Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?
Ans: Yoga helps.

Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
Ans: Best food is fruits,chapathi's(without oil) worst are oil.

Qn: Which oil is better - gingili, groundnut, sunflower, saffola,
olive?
Ans: All oils are bad; the so-called best oil company has the largest
marketing budget. try to consume oil while cooking.

Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any
specific test?
Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP,
Treadmill test after an echo.

Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position, put an aspirin tablet
under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a
coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first
hour.

Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and
that caused due to gastric trouble?
Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.

Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems
amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart
attacks and serious heart problems.
Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, edentary
lifestyles, smoking,junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are
genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and
Americans.

Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of
120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
Ans: Yes. *

Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for
the child. Is it true? **
Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may
not have a software engineer as a child **

Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we
have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart? What
precautions would you recommend? **
Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these
irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological
clock. *

Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications
(short / long term)?
Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern
anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.

Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
Ans : No.

Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
Ans : No.

Qn: How would you define junk food?
Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds, samosas, and even masala
dosas.

Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What
is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk
food?
Ans : Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately,
Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.

Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
Ans : No.

Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a
lot of forwarded emails on this)?
Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any
description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary
care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of
the time, the ambulance does not turn up.

Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count
lead to heart problems?
Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase
your exercise capacity.

Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise.
So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs
in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?
Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour
and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair
and sitting helps a lot.

Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to
heart attacks than non-diabetics.

Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart
operation?
Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time. Control cholesterol, BP, weight.

Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart
disease when compared to day shift workers?
Ans : No. *

Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?** ** **
Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right
combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs
and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to reduce
weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.** *

Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart
attacks?
Ans : No.

Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.

Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not
smoke and, go for a health checkup if you are past the age of 30 for at
least once in a year. And work very hard and Enjoy ur Life... *

Regards!

Mobile phone signalling power

Know This!
When you try to call someone through mobile phone, don't put your mobile
closer to your ears until the recipient answers because directly after
dialing, the mobile phone would use it's maximum signaling power, which is:

2watts = 33dbi. (4 - 6 dbi is Harmless )

Please use left ear while using mobile, because if you use the right one it will affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team. Please be careful and tell others whom you really care about

Cheers!

Importance of breakfast

"Importance of having Breakfast"

Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death. Advice
on not to skip breakfast!

Healthy living
For those who always skip breakfast, you should stop that habit now! You've
heard many times that "Breakfast is the most important meal
of the day." Now, recent research confirms that one of the worst
practices you can develop may be avoiding breakfast.

Why?

Because the frequency of heart attack, sudden death, and stroke peaks
between 6:00a.m. and noon, with the highest incidence being
between 8: 00a.m. and 10:00a.m.What mechanism within the body could account
for this significant jump in sudden death in the early
morning hours?

We may have an Answer.

Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from bleeding to Death if
we get a cut, can clump together inside our arteries due to
cholesterol or laque buildup in the artery lining. It is in the morning
hours that platelets become the most activated and tend to form these
internal blood clots at the greatest frequency.

However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning platelet
activation that is associated with heart attacks and strokes.
Studies performed at Memorial University in St.Johns, Newfoundland
found that eating a light, very low-fat breakfast was critical in
modifying the morning platelet activation. Subjects in the study consumed
either low-fat or fat-free yogurt, orange juice, fruit, and a
source of protein coming from yogurt or fat-free milk. So if you skip
breakfast, it's important that you change this practice immediately
in light of this research. Develop a simple plan to eat cereal, such as
oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape juice
or orange juice, and perhaps a piece of fruit. This simple plan will keep
your platelets from sticking together, keep blood clots from
forming, and perhaps head off a potential Heart Attack or stroke. So
never ever skip breakfast

Tips for contact lenses wearer

Hello fellas, here's a good information for those friends who wear contact lenses, remove them when you have to attend a BBQ party or whatsoever that got to do with flames... I heard a horrible true story about contact lenses.... It happened to a 21 year old guy, he wore a pair of contact lenses during a barbecue party. While, he was barbecuing, he stared at the fire charcoals. After a few seconds, he started to scream for help and moved rapidly, jumping up and down. No one in the party knew
why... When he arrived at the Hospital, the doctor said he'll be blind
permanently courtesy of the contact lenses that he had worn. Contact lenses
are made by plastics, and the heat from the charcoal melted his contact
lenses. So, tell all your friends.....

DO NOT WEAR CONTACT LENSES WHERE OVERHEATING AND FLAMES ARE CONCERNED.

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay "them!"

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's
workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is
with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets,
keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,
improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9 Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county;

to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away.

Ten Reason to throw out your MICROWAVE OVEN

Microwave Oven - Hazard

From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:
1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the
unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3). Male and female hormone production is shut down
and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are
residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved
food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no
benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into
cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal
cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate
of colon cancer in America.

8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory,
concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Have you tossed out your microwave oven yet? After you
throw out your microwave, you can use a toaster oven as a replacement.
It works well for most and is nearly as quick. The use of artificial
microwave transmissions for subliminal psychological control, a.k.a.
"brainwashing", has also been proven. We're attempting to obtain copies of the
1970's Russian research documents and results written by Drs. Luria and Perov
specifying their clinical experiments in this area.


http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm


http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm

Be careful with this fruit - Yang Mei

Here's a rough translation of the article attached:

A lady in Kunming China bought 2 kilo of yang-mei
(can be bought in Singapore when in season) from a
fruit vendor who informed her they are freshly
picked.

After returning home, she put a portion of the fruit
in a bowl of salt water and let it soaked while she
watched TV. Some time later, she checked the fruit
and was suprised to see something wriggling in the
bowl of water.

She felt suspicious and decide to experiment by
soaking the brightly red unsoaked ones with various
level of salted water.

In the least salted water, after soaking for 3 mins
she discovered 7 white worms desperately wiggled its
way to the rim of the bowl to avoid the salt water.

Then she soaked the same fruit in a bowl of saltier
water, and after 3 mins she discovered 5 more worms
emerging from the fruit.

Finally she tried the saltiest water and no more
worm emerged. And she also noticed the fruit has
turned from bright red to patches of white.

Now she realised that whenever she ate this type of
fruit she'll always ended up with tummy upset.

Thus as a precaution, always rinse in salted water
thrice before consuming this kind of fruit (probably
apply to any skinless fruits).

Bon Appetite!

The Silent Killer

For those who take

Ricola & Fisherman , please note that they both contain Aspartame - the silent killer.

This website shows the adverse effects of ASPARTAME:
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/aspartame.html

Fisherman Sweets
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO EAT FISHERMAN SWEETS BE CAREFUL: Sugar free products contain ASPARTAME .. So don't consume Sugar free product esp. 'fisherman sweets' ASPARTAME - THE SILENT KILLER (by Ron Harder)
To those who prefer to consume artificial flavouring:
There is an epidemic across North America today of Multiple Sclerosis and Lupus. Most people do not understand why this epidemic is happening, and they do not know why these diseases are so rampant. I would like to share with you the main reason we are having this very serious problem. Many people today use artificial sweeteners in their tea or coffee.
They do this because the ads they see on TV tell them that sugar is bad for their health. This is absolutely true. Sugar is toxic to us , but what most people use as a replacement for sugar is much more deadly. I am talking about ASPARTAME. It is the cause of the epidemic that was mentioned above. ASPARTAME is an extremely toxic chemical that is produced by a chemical company called Monsanto.
ASPARTAME is being marketed around the world as a sugar substitute and is found in all diet soft drinks, such as

Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi . It is also found in artificial sweeteners such as NutraSweet, Equal, and Spoonful; and it is used in many other products as a sugar replacement.

ASPARTAME is marketed as a diet product, but it is not a diet product at all. In fact, it will cause you to GAIN weight because it makes you crave carbohydrates. Causing you to gain weight is only a very small part of what ASPARTAME does. It is a toxic chemical that changes the brain's chemistry It can and does cause severe seizures.

This chemical changes the dopamine level in the brain, and it is particularly deadly for anyone suffering from Parkinson's disease.
ASPARTAME is extremely poisonous, and here is why one of the toxic ingredients of it is wood alcohol. When the temperature of



ASPARTAME exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in it is converted to Formaldehyde, and then to formic acid, which in turn causes folic acidosis.

FORMALDEHYDE is grouped in the same class of poisons as Cyanide and Arsenic which are very deadly toxins. The only difference is, Formaldehyde kills quietly, and it takes a little longer. And, in the process of killing people, it causes all kinds of neurological problems. There are 92 documented symptoms of Aspartame Poisoning leading to coma and death.
The majority of these symptoms are neurological, because the ASPARTAME attacks and destroys the nervous system. One of these symptoms is Lupus, which has become almost as rampant as Multiple Sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers

Fun Healthy Notice!

少喝奶茶;
Reduce volume of tea;

不吃 刚烤的面包 ;
Do not eat bread which JUST toasted;

远离充 手机电源 ;
Get a distance from charger;

白天多喝水,晚上少喝 ;
Drink more water at the morning, less in the night;

一天 不喝多于两杯咖啡;
Do not drink coffee twice a day;

少吃油多的食物;
Reduce volume of oily food;

最佳睡眠为晚上十点至凌晨六点 ;
Best sleeping time is from 10 at night to 6 at the morning;

晚上五点后少吃大餐 ;
Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm;

每天喝酒不多 过一杯;
Do not take alcohol more than a cup daily;

不用 冷水服胶囊;
Do not take capsule with cool water;

睡前半小 时服药忌 立刻躺下;
Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping;

睡眠不足八小时人会变笨;
8 hours lack of sleep will make a person stupid;

有午睡 习惯的人不易老;
People who get used of napping will not get old easily;

若不能晨跑，傍 晚5点至 8点的 时间是散步的好时间；
If you can't get on early morning runs, 5-8 at the afternoon is a great time for jogging;

电池剩一格时不要 接 电话 ,剩一格 时辐射是平时的一千倍 ;
When battery left last grid, do not answer the phone. The radiation is 1000 times;

还要记得用 左耳接话 , 用右耳会直接伤害到大脑;
Answer the phone by left ear. It'll spoil your brain directly by using right ear;

少用耳机。用一小时后就好休息你的耳朵 ;
Do not use earphone for long time. Rest your ear awhile after 1 hour.

Have a nice weekend!