Heart attacks come only next to road accidents and cancer as a major killer in the present-day world. Unfortunately, heart attacks are the major ‘widow- makers’ since they are very common in men. Though it is impossible to completely eradicate the incidence of heart attacks, one can certainly help one’s own heart to go on for a much longer time without trouble if one takes a little care.
The most important cause of heart attack is something which cannot be changed by anyone, that is, our inheritance of the genes from our parents who might either be suffering from the disease or might have a family history of the disease. Since we do not know the exact cause of a heart attack, epidemiologists have suggested various precipitating or triggering factors which are called ‘risk factors’.
The ideal food habit to prevent a heart attack would be to eat only half of what you would like to eat normally. Popular misconceptions about avoiding certain types of food items might also harm the heart. The best advice would be to eat what you, would like to eat, but in moderation. It is also better to remember that the food supplied by nature is the best for the body and it should not be spoilt very much just to suit the palate.
Alcohol, even in moderation, is not good for the heart. A large dose of alcohol will directly affect the heart muscle, producing irreversible damage. It would be premature to advise people to drink in moderation for the good of the heart, since many other harmful metabolic and pharmacologic effects of alcohol on the heart are now coming to light. Sudden death is more common in alcoholics. Smoking is yet another risk factor which one can overlook only at one’s own peril.
A common belief is that heart attacks occur more commonly in sedentary workers as compared to heavy manual laborers. The scientific data in this regard are less than satisfactory. Our survey conducted in Mangalore has shown that even hard working fishermen suffer an equal number of heart attacks compared to businessmen sitting in their offices. The only difference is that the fishermen had their heart attacks at a later age compared tithe sedentary workers. Heavy competitive sports and unusually heavy exertion are not good for the heart. Day-to-day work done properly should give one enough exercise to keep the heart goings long as one does not overeat and become overweight.
Life is full of stress. For instance, a mother who is about to give birth to a child, a boy during his first day at school, a young
Man going for an interview, a student appearing for an examination and young people getting married, are all under stress. In other words, stress is an integral part of life is
Normal very difficult to ask someone to avoid stress in life. Inez itself. Itthecourse of events, stress does not adversely affect the heart. However, distress, unusual stress or abnormal stress reaction to ordinary stress is the ‘agent’ which kills a man. If you love your day.
Work, you develop no stress even if you work for 24 hours in asleep five to seven hours of restful sleep should be quite suffice an average man for leading a healthy life. Interestingly, than more tent foresight hours of sleep per day is quite detrimental to worrying about sleeplessness is worse than sleeplessness health.
Sexual activity is very good for the heart as itprovidesan easy way of spending about 150 calories of one food intake one and also relaxes the system. I must hasten to add that the guilt associated with extra-marital sex is not good for heart. The heart. A good sexual ability in men is a sign of a healthy.
Studies on risk factors have shown that human beings can be grouped into various personality types. At one extremity of the scale is the overambitious, usually successful, dynamic, one-up, middle-aged man who has a more than aver due to underlying human traits of pride, ego dynamic, drive, basically. These people belong to type ‘An’ in sharp to those not so contrastousy and hatred. Successful, lazy, ‘could-not-care-less’ type e odes individuals groupe as type 13′. In between, there are variousdes of classified under type ‘X’. Various human beings,
Reports reveal that type ‘A’ persons have the highest incidence of heart attacks. The type B’ persons. Type ‘X’ persons has an incidenpared to cue in between the two. Such data are now being questioned as many new studies have failed to confirm this kind of relationship. There are many other studies which have already disproved this hypothesis. Such conclusions should not be interpreted by our youngsters as an excuse to be lazy and not to do anything in life. The higher incidence of heart attacks in type A’ persons could possibly bedew to negative traits such as hatred and anger.
Perhaps the greatest human tragedy occurs when a human being gets frustrated and feels totally rejected by his or her own people and society. The ‘voodoo’ deaths among African tribals are examples of such a situation. History is replete with examples omen that have had heart attacks shortly after they had been rejected by their own people or their policies had been castigated or condemned! Woodrow Wilson, a former President of USA, had a heart attack about four hours after his bill for integration of North with the South was rejected by the Congress against his wishes. Winston Churchill had a heart attack not long after he was rejected by the British electorate following the Second World War. Charles de Gaulle died after a heart attack in his village soon after he was rejected by the French people. Richard Nixon managed to go to China in spite of being afflicted by major heart problem when he was still at the height of his glory but had a near-fatal attack within a couple of months of having been thrown out of the presidency because of the Watergate scandal. Of course, there are exceptions. In fact, exceptions do prove the rule. Never ever get frustrated in life. If you follow the old saying of the Bhagavad Gita, i.e., “do your labor and donor worry about the reward”, you can probably avoid many situations in life which make people frustrated. Trying to harm someone behind his or her back is also one of the important causes for triggering off a heart attack. Forgiveness is a great preventive measure against heart attacks.