Friday, March 21, 2008

Prevent Heart problem A story , health advise

Prevent Heart problem A story

This is e-mail received from a person working in a Software Company Dear colleagues,

I am working in Blore Software City .... I wanted to sharean incident of my life with you, hoping that it may be an eye opener to youso that you can live more years.

On 27th October afternoon, I had severe heart attack symptom and I wasrushed to the hospital. After reaching to the hospital, the doctors prescribed a test calledangiogram.

This test is basically to identify blood flow of heart arteries.

When they finished the test they found a 94% block in the main artery,please see the image below with red circle.

At this point, I wanted to share my living style, which has caused thisblock in my heart arteries. Please see the below points of my life style,

ifany of these points are part of your life style then you are at risk, pleasechange yourselves.

1. I was not doing any physical exercise for more than 10 years , not evenwalking 30 minutes a day for years.

2. My food timings are 11:00 AM Breakfast or no Breakfast, 3:00 PM to4:00 PM Lunch and dinner at 11:00 PM to 12:00 AM.

3. Sleeping in very odd timings, going to bed between 12:00 AM and 3:00AM. Waking up at between 9:00 AM and 10:30AM ....... Some times spendingsleepless nights.

4. I used to eat heavily because of long gaps between lunch and dinnerand I used to make sure that Non-Veg is available most of the time, therewere times when I did survey on city hotels to find delicious Non-Veg dishesI was never interested in vegetable and healthier food.

5. Above all I was chain smoker from years.

6. My father passed away due to heart problems, and the doctors say theheart problems are usually genetic.

Once they identified the major block they have done immediately a procedurecalled angioplasty along with 2 Stints, mean they will insert a foreign bodyinto the heart arteries and open the blocked area of arteries. Please seethe below image after the procedure.

I learnt from the doctors that 60% people will die before reaching thehospital,20% people will die in the process of recovering from heart attackand only 20% will survive . In my case, I was very lucky to be part of thelast 20%.

Doctors instructions:

1. Need to have physical exercise for minimum of 45 minutes daily.

2. Eat your food at perfect timings, like how you eat during your schooldays. Eat in small quantities more times and have lot of vegetables andboiled food, try to avoid fry items and oily food. Fish is good than othernon-vegetarian food.

3. Sleep for 8 hours a day, this count should complete before sun rising.

4. Stop smoking.

5. Genetic problems, we cannot avoid but we can get away from it by havingregular checkups.

6. Find a way to get relived from the stress (Yoga, Meditation etc).

So I urge you all to please avoid getting into this situation, it is in yourhands to turn the situation up side down, by just planning changing yourlife style, by following simple points above.

If you find it's useful youcan forward this mail to your friends and loved ones.....

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