Ten Alarming ‘Heart’ Facts And How You Can Deal With Them
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It is What’s so dis-heartening in India?
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To top it all, the VEDNA (Visualising the Extent of Heart Disease in Indian Women) study, recently conducted by HEAL Foundation, has mapped the CVD trends in Indian women and revealed more alarming facts. The survey has found 10-15% rise in cardiac diseases in the 20-40 age group while 54% of the 600 cardiologists interviewed, observe 16-20% overall growth in
ALARMED? Don’t be, you can be in control
Medics firmly believe that heart conditions are highly preventable. All you require is proper awareness, followed by regular check-ups and a
Watch your diet:
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Sleep to keep yourself fit: Eight hours should be standard, but your body often indicates whether it has adequate rest or not. Getting proper rest and getting back the focus have gained such importance that some MNCs have come up with snooze rooms/meditation rooms where you can take a break.
Get hold of stress-busters: It’s difficult to escape stress altogether, whether you are at home or workplace. So try to find out that special kind of stress-buster that works for you. Talk to friends and family; get counselling; start doing yoga/meditation; go for a nature walk when you have time or take a clean break during weekends. Keeping away from work phones and work mail also helps. Best of all, start a hobby that you love. It can be as simple as walking your cat or as engaging as building an elaborate roof garden. Just find some time to do what you love (outside your work) and your stress will melt away, along with CVD risks.
See your doctor: Whether you are 16 or 60, routine cardiovascular check-ups should not be skipped. Don’t wait for traditional syndromes like chest pain – silent heart attacks actually kill more people worldwide. In fact, an ailing heart can give out signals that can very well resemble the
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Your heart will go on…
Here is one real-life incident for our readers who could be planning long-time treatment and feeling somewhat doubtful about the debility it might bring. We were on a forest trek in Himachal last year where our group met a threesome (dad, mom and their 10-year-old daughter). We spent some thrilling time together, exploring the greens and the valleys near an adventure camp. Our progress was slow at times as I suffer from a slip disc, but we managed to complete the trek. Back at the camp, the couple got busy making an appointment with their family doctor. I was worried and offered to get the camp doctor, thinking the kid was ill. But my new friends assured me all was well. It’s only a routine check-up for ‘dad’ (an engineer in his late thirties), who had a by-pass surgery last year. “But we haven’t given up trekking which we love. We simply do things at our own pace,” the couple said. They have made a point – a lesson in courage and caution that most of us would not forget in a hurry.
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