Showing posts with label heart disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heart disease. Show all posts
As per eMedicineHealth, "The electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a diagnostic tool that measures and records the electrical activity of the heart in exquisite detail. Interpretation of these details allows diagnosis of a wide range of heart conditions. These conditions can vary from minor to life threatening."This I have undergone yesterday after my newfound cardiologist Dr. Pacifico asked me to have one since I complained of feeling a difference in my heartbeat. Years ago I have felt this unusual beating but very very seldom. "Once in a blue moon" they say. But for two weeks now I have been feeling this somewhat fluttering of my heart. More like swooshing. And it has been there daily, a cause for alarm on my part. I listened to it in our stethoscope and at first do not hear the change but feels it each time, then the other day I noticed the beat skipping. It stops for a beat and returns with a little more force than usual. It does so at differing times in a day. May I be exerting effort or just lying down when I sleep it just suddenly comes and goes. I took my heart rate and found it to be just normal, 89 beats per minute, but at one time felt it to be beating harder than usual. I also took my blood pressure and still it is normal 90/60 (at one time became 80/60 maybe with lack of sleep and 110/80 when Dr. Pacifico took it). There had been no chest pains nor dizziness but at one time felt a little shortness of breath.
Therefore, without further ado, I went looking for the best cardiologist nearby hoping I do not have any heart disease. The ECG was not able to catch the irregular heartbeat as I am afraid it won't since it is utterly unpredictable...thus declares the heart beating NORMAL. ECG is usually just the first step to other procedures. Further need for more examinations commonly follows, as was in my case, to which is ordered to have 2D ECHO next.
It is disheartening to hear someone admit of not favoring vegetables. I even have encountered some who do not even know the names of those greens that are mighty important in our daily diet.
Fiber can be called the “sweeper” of body trash. It carries off toxins that may be scattered along our passages; excess fats, unwanted left-over’s, whatever else that we need to get rid of. Gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases can be avoided if we give importance to this high fiber diet.
We will have lower risk to Gastric Ulcers if we have fiber in our diet since it alters gastric emptying time. It helps in clearing our intestines since it normalizes intestinal transit time thus will prevent us from suffering from constipation and hemorrhoids, having Diverticulitis or other lower gastrointestinal problems, and finally the colon cancer that is getting higher and higher in prevalence. It also decreases serum cholesterol and triglycerides, or in lay mans term, our blood streams carrying fat can be diverted into passing them out than getting clogged in our arteries thus also reducing risk to Heart Disease. Possible gall bladder stones are eliminated due to its capability of binding bile acids to which the gall bladder utilizes. And since it delays glucose absorption those excess sugar can be managed. Glucose control is improved due to increased sensitivity of peripheral tissue to insulin.
Fiber in the form of fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grain, cereals, oats, wheat; may it be water soluble or insoluble, is essential in every person’s diet. It is just a full diet with greater emphasis on fiber-rich food.
How inconvenient will it be to do what we love most, to eat, and be free of those diseases fore mentioned?
Fiber can be called the “sweeper” of body trash. It carries off toxins that may be scattered along our passages; excess fats, unwanted left-over’s, whatever else that we need to get rid of. Gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases can be avoided if we give importance to this high fiber diet.
We will have lower risk to Gastric Ulcers if we have fiber in our diet since it alters gastric emptying time. It helps in clearing our intestines since it normalizes intestinal transit time thus will prevent us from suffering from constipation and hemorrhoids, having Diverticulitis or other lower gastrointestinal problems, and finally the colon cancer that is getting higher and higher in prevalence. It also decreases serum cholesterol and triglycerides, or in lay mans term, our blood streams carrying fat can be diverted into passing them out than getting clogged in our arteries thus also reducing risk to Heart Disease. Possible gall bladder stones are eliminated due to its capability of binding bile acids to which the gall bladder utilizes. And since it delays glucose absorption those excess sugar can be managed. Glucose control is improved due to increased sensitivity of peripheral tissue to insulin.
Fiber in the form of fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grain, cereals, oats, wheat; may it be water soluble or insoluble, is essential in every person’s diet. It is just a full diet with greater emphasis on fiber-rich food.
How inconvenient will it be to do what we love most, to eat, and be free of those diseases fore mentioned?
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