Tuesday, September 28, 2010

what can i eat from the Food Guide Pyramid to prevent heart disease

what can i eat from the Food Guide Pyramid to prevent heart disease?

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Distilling nutrition advice into a pyramid was a stroke of genius. The shape immediately suggests that some foods are good and should be eaten often, and that others aren't so good and should be eaten only occasionally. The layers represent major food groups that contribute to the total diet. MyPyramid tries to do this in an abstract way, and fails. Six swaths of color sweep from the apex of MyPyramid to the base: orange for grains, green for vegetables, red for fruits, a teeny band of yellow for oils, blue for milk, and purple for meat and beans. Each stripe starts out as the same size, but they don't end that way at the base. The widths suggest how much food a person should choose from each group. A band of stairs running up the side of the Pyramid, with a little stick figure chugging up it, serves as a reminder of the importance of physical activity. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid-full-story/index.html READ MORE
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Whole grains = whole wheat bread, rolled oats oatmeal, wheat germ added to any recipe where it's suggested. Omega 3 fatty acids = found in some fish like salmon. It's in the skin of the salmon so it's important not to discard that. Sardines also are a rich source of Omega 3s. Look for the ones NOT packed in oils. They can be found packed in water, mustard or hot sauce. Fresh fruits and vegetables = especially dark green veggies, like spinach, broccoli or kale. With fruits, choose to eat them with skins intact on apples, plums, pears, etc. Other fruits that are good are oranges and bananas. These deliver a number of essential vitamins and minerals. (C, iron, potassium) Fortified milk = It's just about our only source of vitamin D, other than the sun or supplements. Lean meats = chicken or turkey without skin, beef carefully trimmed and without marbling, lean pork cuts like loin or loin chops. Meats should be eaten in moderation. It's health for you and one of the best sources of protein, but it should be limited to maybe six ounces a day. You can supplement your protein needs by eating peanut butter or beans and rice (together they make a near perfect protein). Also eggs in moderation, limited to 3 or 4 a week unless otherwise directed by a physician. Egg whites are available as EggBeaters or Better'n Eggs, but they have very little of the needed protein and fat that are somewhat beneficial in whole eggs. Pastas and noodles = choose the ones made with whole wheat. You may have to cook them a little differently that the semolina, but with seasonings and health sauces they'll be yummy! Whew! With that information you should be ready to have a heart healthy diet! =D
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Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods. Consuming high fat diet, lack of exercise, central obesity, diabetes and hypertension, cigarette smoking, etc., may lead to heart diseases

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Do the stroke and heart disease always began by atherosclerosis

Do the stroke and heart disease always began by atherosclerosis?

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i dnt know
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NO. In my case, I had Rheumatic fever which attacked the aortic Valve of my heart and required that valve's replacement. I had a St. Jude device implanted in March of 2006. Since that time I now function as if I had heart disease. I have completely free flowing arteries no blockages but I now have high blood pressure and have to take several heart meds plus live on coumadin forever. I did not have high blood pressure or require heart meds until after surgery.
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Heart disease medications like Lipitor, will give you an increased susceptibility to stroke that is now the number 3 killer in the U.S. Heart disease is caused by processed foods. There is a very tiny bacteria that does not show up on typical blood tests that is called a nanobacteria. This tiny bacteria can be found in cooked foods. It gets into the blood stream and causes inflammation in the arterial wall layers. It bores into the layers of the arterial walls and leaves a blood trail that calcium follows in and creates hardening of the arteries. This bacteria can be found in PCR lab tests, but not typical blood tests. This inflammation is the "root cause" of atherosclerosis. Cholesterol is an alcohol and is immiscible in blood that is basically water. This how the body repairs tissues because the fatty acids used to do repairing attach to the cholesterol (LDL) and are taken to the damaged sites where the repair happens. Once the repair is done, the HDL cholesterol is sent to the site where it gathers up the debris, including the LDL cholesterol and takes it back to the liver to be reconjugated and used again. There are two types of LDL cholesterol, pattern 1 and pattern 2. Typical cholesterol screening tests do NOT determine the quantities or distinguish between the two. Pattern 1 LDL is very good for the body and necessary for repairing tissue. Pattern 2 LDL is very tiny and can contribute to the plaque build up because the HDL has a problem removing this. Since the body makes 85% of the cholesterol found in the body right in the liver, only 15% comes from diet. If you become deficient in cholesterol in your diet, your body simply makes more to compensate since it is a natural healing process. If you become deficient in cholesterol by taking statin drugs, bad diet, etc., you then become susceptible to stroke because the arterial walls can become thin. The first recorded case of cardio myfarction in the U.S. was in 1921. Before that, the incidence of heart disease was almost non existent. When people ate good fats, like saturated fats from butter, coconut oil, palm oil, tallow, lard, the incidence of heart disease was just not there. The introduction of VEGETABLE OILS, hydrogenation, processed foods that contain these bad oils, little nutrients, insecticides, etc. have generated this problem. The SAD (standard American diet) encourages heart disease and the Low Fat, No or little salt, diets are also contributing to this problem and are designed by people with little to no knowledge of how nutrition works in the body. It's NOT easy to be healthy in America today. good luck to you

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Monday, September 20, 2010

How often does congenital heart disease occur

How often does congenital heart disease occur?

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Congenital heart disease occurs in one out of about 125 live births

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