Heart Disease or cardiovascular disease

In most of the women perception, cardiovascular disease mostly affect man. How many of the women aware that actually affect women with the % that not very much lower than men. This is misconception should be taken away. Both women and men should be aware of this silent killer.

The signs & symtoms
Let's talk about the sign and symptoms so that we can easily recognize the signs of heart disease and timely intervention is crucial in increasing the survival rate of heart attack victims.

Chest pain is the most common symptom of a heart attack. Classic symtoms are tightness in the chest or breathlessness on exertion. Other typical symptoms include :-

• shortness of breath
• indigestion
• nausea, vomiting
• fatigue
• back or neck pain
• pain in one or both arms

If you recognize the abovementioned signs in yourself you must take the initiative to seek doctor advice immediately and have a proper check up. This might be able to avoid a potential heart attack getting worse. Early diagnosis is very crucial.


What should you do?
After knowing about the symtom , you should always ask yourselves what can you do to protect yourselves.

A risk of this heart disease increase dramatically in mid-life due to increasing age, hormonal imbalances , change of body fat distribution, phisical inactivity, hypertension and insulin resistance. Women who has high risk of this heart disease are those who are having heart attack and stroke.

As such the steps as follow is important to protect yourself : -

1. Maintain a healthy lifestyle with a healthy weight
• overweight will bring to a lot of other disease ie. diabetes, hypertension & etc which increase the risk of having heart disease. Weight loss is crucial for maintaining a healthy lifesyle
2. Control you cholestrol levels
3. Don't smoke
• the oxidate damage in a cell, tissue or organ caused reactive oxygen  species such as free radicals and cause the heart disease easily intrude your body 
4. Control your blood pressure
5. Follow a healthy diet
6. Exercise regularly

Healthy lifestyle with the healthy diet and food will help to prevent various type of diseases and cause complication. Check other articles on weight loss, hypertension, superfood and etc for more information.

Anger makes you sick?

I have thought of this question, why people easily get angry, irritated and emotional? Just because of the stress environment we have in this advance technology world? Or there are other specific reasons?

Did you know that your anger might affect the people around you and they are so innocent to be your gas release stone? When you have all these emotional feeling, you might slam your office door in your colleague's face, bang on table, showing your dark face? Or may be you are a fist-clenching tongue biter.

When you blow your lid or bottle it up, your anger takes a toll of your health. Why not take a close look on how and where the anger will hurt and even more importantly how to simmer down safely : -

Your brain
Anger may hampering your memory. The emotion can trigger the release of high levels of cortisol and other stress hormones, which may shrink the brain's memory centers.

Your heart
Harboring hostility can release adrenaline, a stress hormone that spikes blood pressure is linked with stroke and heart disease.

Your immune system
You're pumping out the fight-or-fight hormone epinephrine. Chronically high levels may depress the immune system, making you more prone to infections.

Your eyes
Anger may spark ocular migraines, with visions of light flashes and wiggly lines. Soaring stress hormones may constrict blood vessels in the brain, causing the odd optics.

Your teeth

Repressedire could fuel bruxism, unconcious teeth gnashing that occurs during the day or while you sleep. Grinding can cause facial and jaw pain and, over time, even broken teeth.

Your belly

When we get peeved, the brain releases the neurotransmitters acetylcholine and serotonin, which can reduce blood flow to the belly. The failout may include stomach pain and diarrhea.

What is the general rule of anger management that lead to best healthy lifestyle?
The effective way is chillout when your blood begins to boil. You may take a deep breath, yoga style. repeat a calming word such as slow, or picture a peaceful scene like a sunset. You may also plan a workout or other sanity break daily to control your anger.

Live a healthy lifestyle for a your happiness!

Nail Infection

Finger and toenail infections are caused by the fungus. Toenails are more prone to infection compared to fingernails. An infection may make your nails appear thickened and discoloured. Your nails may also become brittle, the skin adjoining them inflamed or scaly. If left untreated, the infection may eventually destroy your nail.

Primay causes of nail infection

• warm and humid climates cause the fungal growth
• shoe with poor ventilation provide an ideal place for fungal to grow
• frequent hand wash can cause skin at the base of nails become damage
• illness namely diebetes can make a fungal infection start easier

How to look after your nails

• wear 100% cotton socks, change your socks when they are damp from sweat or your feet get wet.
• wear waterproof gloves when carrying out household chores
• wear shoes with good support and a wide toe area for better ventilation
• get your health checked on a regular basis
• keep your nails short
• use separate nail trimmers fro healhty and infected nails to prevent spreading the infection

Your treatment option if your nails infected

• oral medication - anti fungal pills
• nail painting - work is the infection is located towards the end of the nail but not the infection close to the skin

• nail removal - this is the last choice if other treatment not work

Fungal nail infection usually look unpleasant, but it does not cause pain or other uncomforatbale symtoms. Stay clean, and beware of any changes to your nail. Best healthy lifestyle starts from cleanliness... A simple steps of taking care your nail will bring you to another step of healthy lifestyle!

10 best ways of destress

We all know that too much stress is bad for everyone and there are alot of sickness in related to stress ie. high blood pressure, obesity, cancer and etc. Find a way to relax is the piece of health advice for everyone! Healthy lifestyle starts from DESTRESS!

Here are the 10 ways you can effortlessly weave stress relief into your hectic routine, instead of talking about meditate with candle for an hour and etc.

Before your leave work - prep for tomorrow
Nothing is more stressful than being unprepared. Take a few minutes to make a to-do list and clean up before you leave. When you come in the next morning, you will have the sense that you are incontrol of the situation and can handle it.

Before you leave house - arm yourself with snacks
Some people turn to comfort food such as ice cream and cookies to ease stress. Keep some snacks on hand will help you alot.

When you have only 5 minutes - try to repeat performance
Doing almost any routine, repetitive activity or reciting a word that represents how you wish you felt is a qucik way to achieve a Zen-like state. This will lower your blood pressure, slower heart rate and breathing and decreased muscle tension. Repeating phrases with spiritual meanings helped to cope with problems. from anxiety to insomnia.

In the bathroom - wash your hand
When you are stress your will be more susceptible to cold viruses and other germs because your immune syste is surpresses. Hand washing is the best defense.

In the car - turn on some tunes
Slow music is a proven stress buster, so set your dial to a soothing station during your commute.

On the weekend errands - use the ATM
Limiting your cash withdrawals to once a week is a quick, easy way to monitor your spending habits. write everything down so you can see exactly where you stand financially. Set your goal by using real figures make you feel so much better without having stress.

At the gym - hit the pool
Floatinf in water triggers the body relaxation response and lower stress hormone.

At home in the evening - give your thumbs a rest
The increase of the blurry boundaries bewteen work and home life leave  us with less downtime than ever before. This spills over to our family life. Set a regular time your will check it in the evening so you are not constantly disrupting home life to keep tabs on work.

When you are facing a major life change - recall the past success
Taking 5 minutes to reflect on how you pulled through your stressful situations can help you to reconnect you resilient side.

Before bed - do an asana in your pajamas
A simple spinal twist can help you get a better night's sleep. Sitting on your bed with legs crossed, place your right hand down on the bed behind you and rest your left hand on the right knee. Sit up straight and inhale for 4-8 counts, lengthening your spine as you breathe. On your exhale, begin to twist toward your right hand. Hold this position for four more breaths, lenghtening your spine on the inhale and deepening your spine on the inhales and deepening your twist on the exhales. Repeat the opposite side.
For the best healthy lifestyle, destress is very important. Try this if you want to detress!

Diet secrets of slim women

What is the diet secrets of slim women? Sound interesting! Every woman is also dreaming to be slim... and keep saying i want to be slim, but no action. Check the few of the secrets that can keep your dreams come true!

Weigh in regularly
- at least once a week, to ensure you aware what is your weight and watch out your diet

Learn to love exercise
- regular workouts can help you maintain lean muscle mass, which means you'll burn energy even at rest

Strive for five
- fruit and veggie servings. Those women who consume 60% more veggie is likely to ward off weight regain than others. Fruit and veggie have more fber and water content which make you have less room for high calorie food

Pump up protein
- Higher amount of protein may prompt the release of hormones that help you feel full

Eat out less often
- with the portion sizes frowing exponentially, some dishes packed with more than 1000 calories. This will sabotage your weigh-loss success

Keep these 5 principles might help to keep you slim, who knows...

Maximize the antioxidant superfoods nutrition

It is not only what you eat that counts, it is also on HOW YOU EAT IT. The way your prepare and serve antioxidant-rich foods can either sap or supplement their nutritional strength. Maximize the benefits of your meals with these power-up strategies.

Upgrade your antioxidant superfoods by the following ways : -€

Tea
Squeezing in lemon. Citrus helps tea's antioxidants survive your intestinal tract and be digested.

Squash
Steaming, then drizzling with olive oil. A small portion of fat helps take in  the fat-souble carotenes.

Apples
Munching on Northern spy. This crisp variety has more free-radical fighters than others.

Broccoli
Nuking or steaming. Or try broccoli sprouts, which contain 100 times more nutrient than broccoli has.

Chocolate
Going NUTS. Pick dark chocolate with almonds; the crunch adds vitamin E.

Combined food with better nutrition

Instead of taking only milk, you can mix with soy to have a better nutrition on bone builder. Have you ever heard of this? There are many other foods that mix well and give you better nutrition benefit that you expected.

Below are some of the example of combined food that mix well and work on your health.

Milk & soy
The isoflavones in soy and calcium together preserved bone density better than either alone. Soy's isoflavones may mimic estrogen's effects, increasing the production of bone proteins which combine with minerals to keep your skelaton strong.
Combine soy and dairy milk on cereal, or drink calcium fortified soymilk will give you a better bone builder nutrition.

Avocado &  spinach
Both of this will give you a immunity booster. The monosaturated fats in avocado release spinach's nutrients. You will absorb up to 15 times more beta-carotene and 5 times more lutein by pairing the two. Beta-carotene can strenghten the immune system and fend off infection and lutein may help prevent cataracts.
Put half an avocado on a spinach salad.

Tomato & broccoli
This combination is known as cancer fighter. This team slower tumor growth rate. Lycopene in tomato works as an antioxidant that protects the body's cells and active agents in broccoli fight off carcinogens.
Toss the two into a soup or pasta dish.

Mango & almond
This is so-called heart healper. Mango contains vitamin C and A. Almond contains Vitamin E. these vitamins help to reduce harmful LDL cholestrol.
Swirl both of this into a bowl of oatmeal.

Garlic & onion
 This works as artery unclogger. This may kill your breath, but you will love what is do to your heart. This is keep arteries plaque-free.
Add both to a chicken or fish saute.

These combinations will give you addtional or better nutrition than taking it alone. For a healthy lifestyle or for your better health, why not give a try on this?

The best belly-trimming smoothie

Try this for this smoothie for your belly trimming...

50ml milk
2 tbsp vanillla yougurt
2 oranges
1 banana
50g strawberries
50g mango
2 tsp vanilla whey-protein powder
3 ice cubes

Toss everything into a blender and whip till smooth, drink while it is still fresh. This is approximately 160 calorie. I take this twice, and it really works on me. Give a try ya...

Pick a diet

The low fat gurus said certain fats are ok while the low carb components are beginning to endorse wholegrains. With every new guideline and selling, each diet has FOUR BASIC RULES for healthy diet : -

• consume carbs in the form of wholegrains and fibre
• avoid trans fats and saturated fats
• eat lean protein
• fill up on fruit and vegetables.

The low-carb south beach diet, ie. now esopouses the virtues of eating the Mediterranean way - including lots of carbohydrate - rich fruit and vegetables.

Let's see what is low-calorie diets, low-carb diets, low-fat diets.
Low calorie diets are your are eating lot of fruit, leafy greens which help keep you feeling full
Low carb diets are more emphasize on good carbs, such as fruit, veggies and wholegrains
Low fat diets are taking good fat from olives, avocado and nuts, or even red meat occasionally.

The key of all of this, of course, is moderation rather than deprivation - eating in a way you can live with. STAY FIT AND HEALTHY!

Nuts and health

What do you know about nuts towards health?

Eat 7 almonds, 7 hazelnuts and 3 walnuts a day....

Adding nuts to a mediterranean diet can reverse symtoms of metabolic syndrome. The next question is what is mediterranean diet? A mediterranean diet is rich in vegetables, whole grains and fish; nuts are high in monounsaturated fats. Together, these foods may reduce triglyceride levels and the inflammation characteristic of the condition.

Almonds contain of high abosorbing protein, fiber, folid acid vitamin E & etc. It helps to reduce LDL cholesterol.

Walnuts rich in fiber, vitamin E, vitamin B, magnesium and anoxidants. Hazelnuts also helo to reduce  LDL cholesterol and heart disease

Hazelnuts is rich in oil which provide energy to human. Besides, it helps to prevent cancer and heart disease. It riches of various vitamin ie. vitamin B1, B2 and B6.

Add these 3 nuts together and start your healthy diet for your healthy lifestyle! Bear in mind, eat all these nuts in raw is much better than those roasted and sugar added.