Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Diabetes, Heart Disease and Respiratory Issues - Best meals

Diabetes, Heart Disease and Respiratory Issues - Best meals?
My father is on a mission to lose some 50lbs after getting out of the hospital. He has type 2 diabetes and just had a heart attack. He also has respiratory issues - trouble breathing, and low oxygen. He is trying Seattle Sutton's but the amount of sugars in their meal plans are double the USDA recommendations, let alone (he is diabetic.) Are there any links to meal ideas and recipes - recommended diet plan? Balancing ALL THREE health issues simultaneously is obviously very difficult.
Heart Diseases - 2 Answers
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Your father should be eating LOTS of veggies and fruits, make sure they are FRESH and not canned or processed. Here is a link to the American Diabetes website, you can find out lots of information there and get good recipes there. http://www.diabetes.org/nutrition-and-recipes/nutrition/overview.jsp
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It can be difficult, but using the Atkins idea ( high protein, very little carbohydrate) with a low fat attitude can be a great solution. For example: even though bacon and sausage would be allowed on the Atkins diet they would not be allowed on a low fat diet. So basically a person eats low fat protein i.e chicken, turkey and fish ( some others) with high vegetable sides. Very little to no fruit because of the high carbs and no starchy veggies like potatoes. A typical meal could be baked chicken with broccoli ( little butter) and cole slaw ( lite dressing). Read up on it. Add Vitamin E to increase oxygen utilization

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Saturday, February 4, 2012

A good website for Heart disease , valves , symptoms

A good website for Heart disease , valves , symptoms ..??
My mother has "Miteral Prolaps" . I'm looking for heart disease symptoms, and heart wall thickness. could you please help me??
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what about the British heart foundation? Or have you tried wikipedia and looked up heart disease?
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By far the best site is The American Heart Association! You can even get monthly emails about heart conditions. www.americanheart.org
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check out webmd.com
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http://www.personalhealthzone.com/heartcauses.html
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Try this website. www.medicinenet.com/mitral_valve_prolapse/article.htm It explains this condition in relatively plain English.
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pdet.org

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Is it possible for the heart to simply stop, without disease, thus killing someone who is exerting no strain

Is it possible for the heart to simply stop, without disease, thus killing someone who is exerting no strain?
I was talking to a friend who claims to know of someone who was standing around before band practice talking to his mates, and he stopped mid-sentence, complained about feeling ill, keeled over and died. The cause, according to this friend of mine, was simply that his heart had stopped, not caused by disease, poisoning etc., it just simply stopped beating, as if it had run its course for this man's life. I'm wondering, is this medically possible?
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For various reasons, some persons develop a sudden, fatal arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation. The heart muscles do not contract in concert, and the patient dies. It is difficult to determine the reason for this on post-mortem exam.
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it is not only possible it is happening with alarming frequency, it is called sudden cardiac arrest. No two cases have been found to have a commonality thus far.
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It is called Sudden Cardiac Death, and now it is becoming more common in the US with around 300,000 suddenly dying from it. This problem ends your life with a cessation of heartbeat due to a rhythm abnormality known as Ventricular Fibrillation, where the electrical pattern of the heart is disrupted, causing the muscles to quiver instead of beat. There are usually causes of SCD, but sometimes, the heart just may lose rhythm for unknown reasons. The most common causes of SCD are: cardiomyopathy, LVH, RVH, ARVD and Long QT Syndrome. The latter usually goes unseen until SCD occurs. Cardiomyopathy, LVH, RVH and ARVD can be detected with a cardiothoracic echocardiogram and many doctors can recognize it in an instant, however, only an ECG can determine whether a person has LQTS, and usually doctors don't screen for this in a routine ECG.
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Yes it is!

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