Posted: February 14th, 2010 | Filed under: Cardioventis, Heart Disease Prevention, Heart Prevention | Tags: Cardioventis, Healthy Heart, Heart, Heart Disease, Heart Diseases, Heart Staple, HeartStaple |
Today if you and your loved one take commitment to eat a nutritious diet, engage in regular physical activity, maintain a healthy weight, and stop smoking, you will improve your heart health.
Currently, only 3 percent of U.S. adults practice these “Big Four” heart healthy habits. But it’s never too late to start. No matter what heart disease risk factors you have—or how many—you will greatly benefit from taking action in these four areas. If you already have heart disease, you can lessen its severity by following this plan.
True, you may need to take other steps to prevent or control heart disease. For example, if you have diabetes, you also will need to keep your blood sugar levels under control. But following a heart healthy eating plan, controlling your weight, and engaging in more physical activity will help you keep your blood sugar at healthy levels. These steps will also help reduce your chances of developing high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol. Whatever your current health conditions or habits, this action plan can make an enormously positive difference in your heart health. To find out how to get started, read on.
Eat for Health
The health of your heart has a lot to do with the foods you eat. The “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” give science-based advice for eating right and being physically active to maintain good health. The guidelines recommend the following healthy eating plans:
Emphasize fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products.Include lean meats, poultry, fish,beans, eggs, and nuts.
Choose foods that are low in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, salt and sodium, and added sugars.
Balance the calories you take in with the calories you need.
Although the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” recommend an excellent basic menu for heart health, you may need to make some additional changes in your diet if you have high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol. You may want to work with a registered dietitian to help you make these changes. A dietitian can teach you about the eating plan that is best for you, determine a reasonable calorie level, and help you choose foods and plan menus. A dietitian can also help you keep track of your progress and encourage you to stay on your eating plan. Talk with your doctor about whether you should get a referral to a registered dietitian. In the meantime, if you have high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol.
Source:National Heart,Lung and Blood Institute.
Posted: February 6th, 2010 | Filed under: Heart Disease Prevention | Tags: Heart Disease, HeartStaple, One ECG, Risk Factor, Women |
The Heart Truth: Healthy Weight Pledge
Heart Disease Doesn’t Care What You Wear—It’s the #1 Killer of Women.®
To make women more aware of the danger of heart disease, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and partner organizations are sponsoring a national campaign called The Heart Truth®. The campaign’s goal is to give women a personal and urgent wakeup call about their risk of heart disease.
Did you know that 1 in every 4 women in America die of heart disease.
Prevention of heart diseae is easy,if you can take control of your risk factors.
Risk factors are conditions or habits that make a person more likely to develop a disease. They also can increase the chances that an existing disease will get worse. Important risk factors for heart disease that you can do something about are cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, overweight, physical inactivity, and diabetes. Research shows that more than 95 percent of those who die from heart disease have at least one of these major risk factors. Some risk factors, such as age and family history of early heart disease, can’t be changed. For women, age becomes a risk factor at 55. Women who have gone through early menopause,either naturally or because they have had a hysterectomy, are twice as likely to develop heart disease as women of the same age who have not yet gone through menopause. Another reason for the increasing risk is that middle age is a time when women tend to develop other risk factors for heart disease. Family history of early heart disease is another risk factor that can’t be changed. If your father or brother had a heart attack before age 55, or if your mother or sister had one before age 65, you are more likely to get heart disease yourself. While certain risk factors cannot be changed, it is important to realize that you do have control over many others.
Regardless of your age, background, or health status, you can lower your risk of heart disease—and it doesn’t have to be complicated. Protecting your heart can be as simple as taking a brisk walk,whipping up a good vegetable soup, or getting the support you need to maintain a healthy weight.
Source:National Heart,Lung and Blood Institute-National Institute of Health-US.Gov
Posted: January 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Innovations | Tags: Business, HeartStaple, Innovation, Ipad |
Innovation is the key driver of future of any Business,whether it is in Health Care or any other industry.
Some of the changes that can make a difference to any business either big or small is well outlined in the following article from Harvard Business Review Blog by John Baldoni.
Think small. The beauty of small innovations is that they focus on immediate concerns, not on finding game-changing products. Encourage your people to find a solution to a problem, or a better way of doing things.
Try posing questions: How can accounting streamline billing? How can customer service resolve issues on the phone without supervisor intervention? How can product engineers find more time to spend with customers? Using such questions will get people generating ideas. Not every idea will be brilliant, but that’s the point. You want to collect ideas, refine them, and select the best for implementation.
Implement locally. Since most small innovations are limited to a department or a function, put them into action as soon as possible. If the idea does not work as expected, don’t abandon it immediately — see if you can tweak it. Implementation itself can be creative and sometimes it takes several tries to make innovative ideas work as expected, or beyond expectations.
Promote widely. You need to recognize those who think of and support the innovations. Many organizations provide incentives for such efforts, from gift coupons all the way up to substantive bonuses for innovations that positively affect the entire company. The important thing is to recognize the right people, and to do it in a timely fashion.
