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Obesity and Heart Disease-Knowing The Risks Can Keep You Healthy

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
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Everybody knows there is a strong correlation between obesity and heart disease. Too many people in our western society are obese which can resulting in not only skyrocketing healthcare costs, but also bring on numerous other diseases, including heart disease.

The good news is that by making a commitment to change your eating habits and lifestyle habits, you can reach a healthy weight again and keep heart disease at bay. Here is how:

Obesity And Heart Disease: Know The Risks
By Maureen Hamilton

With so many people suffering from obesity these days, particularly in developed nations, it is important to understand the health risks surrounding excess weight gain. Obesity wreaks havoc on your physical body, and damages your mental state of mind; the cardiovascular problems associated with obesity affect both your physiological and neurological capacities, leading to issues like diabetes, depression, and most notably, heart disease. Heart disease is one of the most common and dangerous risks that obesity poses to people, so let’s take a closer look at the relationship between the two and what you can do to avoid engaging your body in this destructive relationship.

Obesity is defined as being overweight to the extent that a person’s BMI (Body Mass Index) is over 30. Obesity can be caused by genetic factors, such as a thyroid disorder, but it is most commonly caused by overeating, a lack of exercise, and a diet rooted in sugar, trans fat, and processed food consumption. A person suffering from obesity will have high levels of cholesterol and high blood pressure, the leading factors that cause heart disease. Additionally, obesity can cause sudden chest pains caused by a decrease in oxygen to the heart (angina) and has been known to cause sudden death from heart problems or stroke without signs or symptoms.

As evidenced above, obesity and heart disease and related and cause a serious threat to your health. The good news is that you have the ability to reduce the risk of these adverse effects now if you take your life back into your own hands and start developing healthier habits. Even if you are obese, changing your lifestyle to include exercise and healthy eating will decrease your chance for heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol; losing just 10% of your body weight will reduce these risks and get your heart back on track.

While heart problems and obesity can be caused by genetic factors, the ball is really in your court in terms of avoiding these dangerous health problems. You have the power to shape and control your eating and exercise habits-it is up to you to choose a healthy lifestyle and then make the commitment to live it day by day. Visit a nutritionist, make a healthy eating plan, join a gym or make an exercise plan on your own. All of these things will contribute to your overall health and sense of well-being, and will help you to avoid health problems that can impede on your enjoyment of life or even cut it short.

About the Author

Maureen Hamilton is an Integrated Neuro-Linguistic Programming Master Practitioner, Hypnotherapist and a Demartini Method Facilitator. Maureen has previously worked in many areas of health in Australia as well as overseas. Her health background includes training in general and midwifery nursing, mental health and children’s behavioural issues (including the effects of emotional trauma especially in children). Maureen is very much involved in promoting and assisting people to obtain optimal health and is absolutely committed to helping people to stop smoking and/or lose weight naturally using Hypnosis and NLP.
If you would like to find out more, visit http://masteryourlifepower.com and and talk to Maureen about your requirements.

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Becoming healthy is up to you. Become educated and make the changes to fight obesity and avoid heart disease at all costs!

To Your Heart’s Health,
Monique Hawkins

Resources:

1. Most people love having clear arteries. Some people have just found out how to keep their heart arteries clear by taking a special vitamin called Vita Che. To learn more about this powerful supplement, visit Vita-Che-THE PRODUCT OF CHOICE FOR CIRCULATORY HEALTH! at http://tinyurl.com/d34e4yy

2. Forks Over Knives. Two doctors in this movie present, based on research, how going to a plant based diet can help reverse many diseases, including heart disease. To learn more http://www.forksoverknives.com/

3. The Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments of Congestive Heart Failure. You can make a difference. http://www.congestive-heart.com/

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Heart Failure Treatment-New Treatments Provide Hope To Heart Patients

Monday, January 16th, 2012

For those who suffer from congestive heart failures, there are many heart failure treatments available to consider. Since congestive heart failure is so deadly in our country today, doctors have been been involved in on-going research to provide cutting edge treatments to their patients.

In today’s post, you will learn about treatments which show much promise to those suffering from congestive heart failure. It is my hope you will learn much and if you do have this disease, will be able to reverse it.

To Your Heart’s Health,
Monique Hawkins

Resources:

1. Most people love having clear arteries. Some people have just found out how to keep their heart arteries clear by taking a special vitamin called Vita Che. To learn more about this powerful supplement, visit Vita-Che-THE PRODUCT OF CHOICE FOR CIRCULATORY HEALTH! at http://tinyurl.com/d34e4yy

2. Forks Over Knives. Two doctors in this movie present, based on research, how going to a plant based diet can help reverse many diseases, including heart disease. To learn more http://www.forksoverknives.com/

3. The Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments of Congestive Heart Failure. You can make a difference. http://www.congestive-heart.com/

New Treatments to Aid Congestive Heart Failure
By Mark F Hargreaves

Heart disease is one of the deadliest killers in the world to date. Congestive heart failure, a condition found secondary to innumerable major cardiac diseases, possesses its own high mortality rate. Fifty percent of patients who are diagnosed with congestive heart failure will die within the five following years. Scientists and researchers have always had problems understanding the exact mechanisms of the disease, and to find a cure.

Congestive heart failure begins as the cells in the heart die or stop working attributable to an event like a myocardial infarction (a heart attack) or ischemic heart disease. Whatever the cause, the heart is subsequently ineffective pumping blood throughout the body, resulting in the blood pooling in the organs and fluid building up in and around the lungs as sodium is unable to be adequately excreted, causing dyspnea that is the classic symptom of congestive heart failure.

Clinical research is being targeted at the treatment of the disease and the possibility of repairing the damaged cells in the heart. Current research is underway to measure new medications that would lend a hand in vasodilation, also as a calcium inhibitor that would not produce the higher incidence of cardiac arrhythmia seen with the medications currently on the market.

In the age of natural medicine, the power of the mind has been invoked in clinical trials to apply meditation and relaxation techniques to battle the tension on the heart that can be the breaking point for patients with congestive heart failure. Tension has been shown to negatively affect the body’s blood pressure forcing the heart to work harder and placing an undue amount of stress on a by this time feeble muscle.

The theory lies in the belief that by learning to maintain a low level of mental stress the heart will be less stressed and as a result less likely to fail completely, and the patient can be accorded a better prognosis.

Alongside the return to natural, holistic methods of treatment is an incredible advancement in clinical technology that was not available twenty or thirty years in the past. Scientists profess to have identified a set of altered genes that can cause a person to be more disposed to suffer from congestive heart failure and are using their current expertise of genes and the benefits of gene therapy in an effort to reverse the effect. In addition, medications to tamp down on the genes’ actions, like beta blockers and alpha-2 agonists are by this time available and being used in treatment programs.

Also being explored is the possibility of using stem cells to aid in correction of the damaged heart tissue. Clinical trials showed that patients in distress from congestive heart failure responded very favorably to an injection of their own stem cells into the heart, and while the exact means by which this causes improvement is as yet unknown. It is suspected that these cells either facilitate the growth of new vessels in the heart or act as a type of beacon, attracting the body’s own healing cells to the site of the harm and stimulating repair.

The possibility of growing healthy tissue from embryonic stem cells to be transplanted is also being explored, although the controversial nature of the employment of embryonic stem cells due to the compulsory destruction of the embryo makes this doubtful in the foreseeable future. Scientists have determined that adult stem cells just can’t provide an adequate supply of new cells to meet the needs of patients who have suffered from congestive heart failure.

Congestive heart failure is incredibly dangerous insofar as the body cannot reproduce the dead tissue cells in the heart; all the same, with modern advancements it is the longing of researchers everywhere to one day find a cure.

Mark has suffered with a congestive heart problem since 1994 and is now severely disabled. He maintains a website for anyone who wants information on congestive heart failure and heart disease in general. Visit http://www.congestive-heart.com/

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Heart Disease Prevention Tip:Why Nuts Are Good for Heart

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Today’s heart disease prevention tip has to do with nuts and how you should include them in your diet.

This came from a recent article in the May 15, 2011 issue of “Bottom Line Personal.” It says:

” Nuts are among the most potent remedies for heart health. Research shows that people who eat up to five times a week can reduce their risk for heart disease by 30% to 50%, according to the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study and other medical trials. People who eat nuts regularly have better heart health even when they eat unhealthy amounts of saturated fat or consume few fruits or vegetable.

The omega-3 fatty acids in nuts reduce arterial inflammation and the risk for clots. Nuts also contain oleic acid which improves cholesterol.

One small handful of nuts daily is good. Any kind of nut is fine, (including peanuts, which actually aren’t a nut), roasted or raw (no salt.)”

The bottom line, make sure you include nuts as part of a heart healthy diet plan everyday. Your heart will greatly benefit from it!

To Your Heart’s Health
Monique Hawkins
540-858-2885 anytime
Skype: Monique371

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Heart Disease Diet-The Link Between Soft Drinks and Gout

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

I happened to be reading from a magazine called “Taste for Life” I picked up at a local health food store,  In the January 2011 issue, there was a brief article on women’s health. In the article, it talked aobut how soft drinks may lead to gout.  Here is what it reported:

“While men have the dubious distinction of developing gout more often than women, the in c idence of this painful arthritic condition appears to be increasing in women.

New data points to fructose in sweetened beverages as a potential culprit.

Gout isn’t just painful-it can cripple joints and may be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Gout develops as a result of uric acid in the blood that precipitates in to crystals that lodge in joints, causing pain.

In men, gout has been liked to the consumption of fructose-a sugar used to sweeten sodas, juices, and many other foods. Fructose, it appears, triggers production of uric acid in the body.

Based on the data from the large Nurses Health Study, researchers have now extended teh warning about fructose to women. They says that even one sugar-sweetened soda or juice drink a day increases the risk of gout.”

And remember that gout can also lead to heart disease. If you are like most people and want to maintain optimal health,  it’s best to pay close attention to what you are drinking!

To Your Heart’s Health

Monique Hawkins

540-858-2885

Skype: Monique371

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Heart Disease Treatments-Why The Good Life Is Killing You

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

I had to share with you this wonderful program I feel can change your life. If you are someone who is longing to do any of these things:

-lose weight without dieting
-feel more energy
-stop heart disease and stroke
-turn around diabetes
-lower your cholesterol
-lower depression
-reverese high blood pressure

CHIP can help. What is CHIP? It is the Coronary Health Improvement Product. The program helps you to begin to take control of your life and begin living. Plus, at the same time if you follow the principles taught, you can lower your health costs and take control of your life that way you have always longed to.

This program isn’t new. It has been around since 1988 and has graduated 50,000 participants since that time. What you would need to do is sign up with a training class in your local area.

If you are intrigued by this, you can visit the website at http://www.chiphealth.com/ for more information.

To receive your free cd entitled, “Why The Good Life Is Killing Us”, call 1-618-627-4651

To grab your free copy of the “CHIP Prescription for Health” visit http://www.chiphealth.com/about_chip/index.php

I look forward to hearing how CHIP has worked for you!

To Your Heart’s Health
Monique Hawkins
540-858-2885
mentormonique@gmail.com
Remember to sign up for my “You Deserve To Have A Healthy Heart” Newletter!

P.S. Vita Che is the ultimate Roto Rooter for your arteries, visit http://699456.shopvitamark.com

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Women’s Heart Problems-7 Steps To Lower Your Cholesterol

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Women’s heart problems is a concern for many women as well as men. Due to the lifestyle and diet of the western culture, heart diease and other health concerns continue to be a problem in our country.

One of the culprits of develolping heart disease is high cholesterol levels. Cholesterol is a fatty and waxy substance that is produced by the liver. Too much of saturated fats in your diet may contribute to high blood cholesterol. Most saturated fats come from animal products such as butter, cheese, chocolate, whole milk, pies, pastries, cakes, hot chips, potatoes and hash browns.

In some individuals, high cholesterol levels can be due to a genetic disorder. Too much cholesterol in your blood will start building up in the artery walls, causing narrowing of the arteries. This increases your risk of developing heart or brain attack(stroke).

Whatever the cause of your high levels of cholesterol is, it is very important that you make efforts to lower your cholesterol levels by changing your lifestyle:

1.Follow a heart healthy dietary pattern.

2.Lose some weight if you are overweight.

3.Be active by doing moderate physical exercises for at least 30 minutes daily.

4.Avoid excessive alcohol consumption.

5.Avoid foods prepared with butter, hydrogenated oil, coconut or palm oil.

6.Avoid white meat fats, chicken skin or processed meats and chicken.

7.Have more servings of dried peas, beans, soy products, oats, whole grains and high-fibre cereals.

If your cholesterol level is too high, your doctor may put you on medication for a short time or for life. If that is the case, you should have your cholesterol levels checked every three months until it is controlled and then every six months.

In normal circumstances, cholesterol is very important as it helps our bodies to function properly. Cholesterol and other fats are also called lipids and each of these has a different function:

1.The High Density Lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL)often called the “good” cholesterol because it helps to remove cholesterol from the artery walls, thereby reducing your risk of heart disease.

2.The Low-Density Lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL) is often called “bad” cholesterol because it deposits cholesterol into the artery wall, increasing your risk of heart disease or heart attack.

3.The Triglycerides are the most common form of fat in the body. They act as energy storage tanks of the body. High levels of triglycerides cause many diseases in the body, including heart disease and stroke.

To know your lipid profile, visit you doctor and he or she will perform a fasting blood test. An ideal profiles should is:

Total cholesterol(TC) less than 4mmol/L
LDL cholesterol less than 2.5 mmol/L
HDL cholesterol greater than 1mmol/L
TC/HDL ratio less than 4.5
Triglycerides less than 1.7 mmol/L

Therefore, it is important to change your life style to remain healthy and live longer. Develop good eating habits, keep fit and enjoy life.

Women’s heart problems does not have to be your problem! Take the necessary steps and make those lifestyle and diet changes now so you will have a healthy heart!

To Your Heart’s Health
Monique Hawkins
540-858-2885
mentormonique@gmail.com
Remember to sign up for my “You Deserve To Have A Healthy Heart” Newletter!

P.S. Vita Che is the ultimate Roto Rooter for your arteries, visit http://699456.shopvitamark.com

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Women’s Heart Problems|Top 8 Heart Disease Treatments Continued

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

In today’s post, we will cover the last 4 of the top 8 heart disease treatments for women as well as men. Though women’s heart problems is a concern in our society, it is always great to know there are things that women as well as men can do to recover from heart disease.

So, that said, let’s continue and hear what else Dr. Wallack recommends, someone who had to have bypass surgery.

Tip #5: Make love once more. Dr. Wallack recommends you ask your doctor if you can have sex again. Many heart patients worry sex will strain their hearts and this is not true. Less than 1% of patients due of a heart attack while having sex.

Tip #6: Eat well for recovery. Eat small meals frequently. Anesthesia effects can cause some heart patients to feel nauseaous and creates a loss of appetite. Plus, pain medication can add to the problem. Dr. Wallack found smoothies to be ideal for him.

Tip #7: Prepare for career issues. When Dr. Wallack was recovering, some people were tryinto get his job! When you return to work, don ‘t talk about your health and don’t let people see you taking medication. Do ask your boss or human resources manager for accomodations such as taking a 15 minute power nap or making time for a rehab trip.

Tip #8: Set exercise goals. Women’s heart problems as well as men’s can be helped with exercise. Regular exercise lowers cholesterol and blood pressure. Plus, it reduces stress. Make sure you develop a program with a rehabilitation expert who can work with you the first few months as you recuperate. This many times is covered by your insurance.

I hope, whether you are a woman who has women’s heart problems or a gentleman, that you have found Dr. Wallack’s information helpful. Follow it and you will be well on your way to recovery.

To Your Heart’s Health
Monique Hawkins
540-858-2885
mentormonique@gmail.com
Remember to sign up for my “You Deserve To Have A Healthy Heart” Newletter!

P.S. For more information about Vita Che, what I call the Roto Rooter for your arteries, visit my online nutrition store at http://699456.shopvitamark.com

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Women and Heart Disease-What Are The Top 5 Heart Disease Myths

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

As we know, women and heart disease is a major concern in the US. To make matters worse, there seem to be myths about heart disease that many people belive.

In this You Tube video, Dr. Nieca Goldberg, author of “The Complete Guide To Women’s Health,” speaks with Chris Wragge about these myths and delivers what the “real deal” is.

I found the video informative and believe you will as well.

Take care of your heart and health!

Sincerely,
Monique Hawkins
540-858-2885
Skype: monique371

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