How to prevent Heart disease

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Heart disease is the leading cause of the death in the United States. It is also a major cause of disability. There are many things that can raise your risk for heart disease. They are called risk factors. Some of them you cannot control, but there are many that you can control. Learning about them can lower your risk of heart disease. What are the heart disease risk factors that I cannot change? Age. Your risk of heart disease increases as you get older. Men age 45 and older and women age 55 and older have a greater risk. Gender. Some risk factors may affect heart disease risk differently in women than in men. For example, estrogen provides women some protection against heart disease, but diabetes raises the risk of heart disease more in women than in men. Race or ethnicity. Certain groups have higher risks than others. African Americans are more likely than whites to have heart disease, while Hispanic Americans are less likely to have it. Some Asian groups, such as East Asians, have lower rates, but South Asians have higher rates. Family history. You have a greater risk if you have a close family member who had heart disease at an early age. What can I do to lower my risk of heart disease? Fortunately, there are many things you can do to reduce your chances of getting heart disease: Control your blood pressure. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease. It is important to get your blood pressure checked regularly - at least once a year for most adults, and more often if you have high blood pressure. Take steps, including lifestyle changes, to prevent or control high blood pressure. Keep your cholesterol and triglyceride levels under control. High levels of cholesterol can clog your arteries and raise your risk of coronary artery disease and heart attack. Lifestyle changes and medicines (if needed) can lower your cholesterol. Triglycerides are another type of fat in the blood. High levels of triglycerides may also raise the risk of coronary artery disease, especially in women. Stay at a healthy weight. Being overweight or having obesity can increase your risk for heart disease. This is mostly because they are linked to other heart disease risk factors, including high blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Controlling your weight can lower these risks. Eat a healthy diet. Try to limit saturated fats, foods high in sodium, and added sugars. Eat plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, and whole grains. The DASH diet is an example of an eating plan that can help you to lower your blood pressure and cholesterol, two things that can lower your risk of heart disease. Get regular exercise. Exercise has many benefits, including strengthening your heart and improving your circulation. It can also help you maintain a healthy weight and lower cholesterol and blood pressure. All of these can lower your risk of heart disease. Limit alcohol. Drinking too much alcohol can raise your blood pressure. It also adds extra calories, which may cause weight gain. Both of those raise your risk of heart disease. Men should have no more than two alcoholic drinks per day, and women should not have more than one. Don't smoke. Cigarette smoking raises your blood pressure and puts you at higher risk for heart attack and stroke. If you do not smoke, do not start. If you do smoke, quitting will lower your risk for heart disease. You can talk with your health care provider for help in finding the best way for you to quit. Manage stress. Stress is linked to heart disease in many ways. It can raise your blood pressure. Extreme stress can be a "trigger" for a heart attack. Also, some common ways of coping with stress, such as overeating, heavy drinking, and smoking, are bad for your heart. Some ways to help manage your stress include exercise, listening to music, focusing on something calm or peaceful, and meditating. Manage diabetes. Having diabetes doubles your risk of diabetic heart disease. That is because over time, high blood sugar from diabetes can damage your blood vessels and the nerves that control your heart and blood vessels. So, it is important to get tested for diabetes, and if you have it, to keep it under control. Make sure that you get enough sleep. If you don't get enough sleep, you raise your risk of high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes. Those three things can raise your risk for heart disease. Most adults need 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night. Make sure that you have good sleep habits. If you have frequent sleep problems, contact your health care provider. One problem, sleep apnea, causes people to briefly stop breathing many times during sleep. This interferes with your ability to get a good rest and can raise your risk of heart disease. If you think you might have it, ask your doctor about having a sleep study. And if you do have sleep apnea, make sure that you get treatment for it.
Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/health/@adeleyeadebola/how-to-prevent-heart-disease

Fall Plague - listening to your body (Goals)

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Ugh, been sick as heck over the past week. Of course in the middle of one of the biggest holidays of the year in the USA. Started really feeling sick last weekend, though I had a suspicion that I was going to be getting sick before I had even left (was working out of state last weekend). And I really blame the antibiotics for this and several of my recurring health issues that I've dealt with. I was just speaking with someone close several days ago about being on antibiotics and how it related to a chronic candida issue that I have. We ended up talking about how they would get Strep every year and end up taking antibiotics for it, and then they switched to consistent natural remedies.

Also, I was on them again 6-8 weeks ago for a wisdom tooth infection (they won't remove them), and I was not particularly pleased to be on them again. So I ended up catching this illness from someone I know on accident, and of course they recovered quickly. but now it has been a week that I've been suffering. Today is actually the first day that I feel better since last Saturday, so yeah... a week. And all my symptoms were of strep throat (or some variety of bacterial tonsillitis - I couldn't say for certain). SO yeah... I don't want to get this every year. I miss the days when I used to just basically be immune to illness. Those were good times! 😃 Anyways, the point being, I have decided to take a more proactive approach to immunity. I had already been trying to play with supplements to improve immunity and such, but it clearly hasn't been the correct approach. There's this little voice anytime anything happens with me, good or bad, that says "what can I change to make this situation better?" Many times nothing comes of that voice, but there is this pain right now associated with dealing so poorly with illness that tells me that I need to do something else.

I plan on traveling again next year and I can't be sick for weeks and weeks while I'm doing all of that, as it is neither practical nor enjoyable. There are a lot of little ways like this that my body has been telling me that it's unhappy. The candida, autoimmune disorder/joint pain, very easily catching illness/getting way worse from illness than others who catch the same thing, constant musculoskeletal pain. I've been to the doctor as well, but that's another story I'll get into later... So when I look at this situation and I ask my question, I come up with this: Lots of nutrition Lots of natural remedies taken preventatively Avoid exposure to high risk situations. At this point, I'm okay just wearing a mask in public. I don't care if people look at me funny, I am sick of catching the plague every time I shake someone's hand. It's time to listen to my body and learn what I can do to help myself, because it's clear that the doctor is not the place to learn how to be healthy. It's a great place to learn how to be a prescription addict though. I've done a lot of research and experimentation on health, nutrition, and exercise; and I spent a little bit more time looking into other ideas... but mainly here's the plan I've come up with for increasing health. _{some of this I am already doing or are close to doing} stick the following to daily routine: ##### Vegetables/fruits, high micronutrient content (dark leafy greens especially) _{- goal - 9cups a day (1/9c fruit)} ##### Garlic & Echinacea (probably as tea, bleh) _{- 1 serving per day} ##### Flu vaccination every 6 months _{- I used to trash on flu vaccine, but even if there's only a 30% effectiveness some years that's better than nothing with how I'm feeling right now} ##### Always have facemasks with me for public activities _{Yeah, I'm going to be that weirdo. I don't care anymore.} I'm already like 80% asian anyways, so I might as well shoot up to 90% or so and start wearing masks 😃 And then comes the first step for this stuff, which is tracking it. I kind of have some ideas with which I'm going to do with that, but I'll roll that out later. Anyways, my main conclusion that keeps being reinforced over and over for me is that our lifestyles are the biggest contemporary health issue. So, why not set a goal to change something in your lifestyle for the better? Get a personal trainer once a week, remove sugar from your diet, eat veggies with every meal. Find something to make yourself better. If you aren't doing that, then what *are* you doing? Thanks for coming by, ### - Guurg ^{*external link*} _{P.S. what you think of my plans? Think I should do something else or extra?} Photo Credits: *Unsplash - Annie S.* *giphy - pills* *giphy depp angry*
Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/sct/@guurg/fall-plague-listening-to-your-body-goals

Allowing Our Body To Self Heal!

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The last two days my youngest has been sick with a fever and vomiting. She is managing to keep down breastmilk and water, but her body is rejecting any food. She sleeps, then wakes to drink some milk and then she falls asleep again, we have both fallen into a rhythm. The best place for me is right nest to her. None of my girls have ever taken medication. If they get a fever then I know their body is fighting the illness. Of course I monitor them, but I also let their bodies do what they need to. By doing this I am helping their immune systems to develop and grow. Our immune systems can only develop, if we allow them to fight viruses and illnesses. So children it is really important to allow our children to get sick. It is by no means easy to watch them become unwell and to see them suffer. It is only natural for us to feel helpless and explore anyway in which we can help them.

But those feelings play right into the hands of the pharmaceutical companies, they want us to be scared so that we buy their ‘medicine’. So that we sign up our kids to be life long customers. The more we medicate ourselves, the more we need to medicate ourselves. Why is fever viewed as such a dangerous thing? When in reality it is a sign that our bodies are working. Of course I understand that some fevers can be dangerous, but the majority are not. We just need to stay hydrated and allow our bodies to do what they can and that is to heal themselves. The more we interfere, the more medication we consume the less powerful our immune systems become. At the end of the day practice makes perfect!

I have not taken any medication in over 10 years and yes I have experienced pain and sickness in that time. I have successfully treated infections and I birthed 2 of my children with no other assistance only that which my body can do. I am not here to make any assumptions about anyone else, or to pass any judgement I just wish to share my experience. When you decide to take control of your well being, you need to look at everything in your life. Everything we consume affects our bodies ability to self heal. Everything! What we eat, drink, absorb, what we listen to and watch. I am not saying that I will never need any medical assistance, but I am doing my best to live a healthy life. I know the food I eat, I make decisions everyday about what comes into my body. I take that responsibility on, I see it as one of the best ways in which I can honour my body, honour myself. If my body does need some extra support, I use herbs or adjust my diet to make sure I get the extra nutrients my bodies need.

I trust in my body’s ability to self heal, yes it takes longer than if I were to pop a pill to treat my symptoms, but in the end my immunity gets to develop more. Because by popping those pills, we are dumbing down our immunity. We are weakening ourselves. At the end of the day we all make decisions, we make choices that affect us and those around us. But choosing to value your own health, to honour yourself by giving your body what it needs, this is something we can all do. It starts with listening to your body and then educating yourself about the food you eat, the water you drink and what you allow yourself to consume. We can choose fear and as a result hand over our power to the pharmaceutical companies, or we can choose to reconnect with ourselves and hold on to our power. The choice is ours.

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Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/naturalmedicine/@trucklife-family/allowing-our-body-to-self-heal

Abundance All Around! {Keeping the Thankful Feels Going}

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Hey everyone! I hope all my US pals enjoyed the holiday this past Thursday. My Thanksgiving was a low-key day spent with family (minus one sis suffering from an unfortunately timed migraine). The boyfriend and I jumped in on the fun workout with my work "family" in the morning, then loaded up my vegan goodies to enjoy a meal with the family later on. Holidays now seem to center mostly around my niece, but it makes for a fun and memorable experience every time. I can't wait for Christmas up next!

I think with the hustle of getting everything to the table and desire to be as unplugged as possible, I hardly ever get good photos of my holiday meals. I did have a few folks interested in how my cranberry marinated tofu came out, though, so I had to take a few shots of the delicious finished product!

A bit more simple than some Thanksgiving plates, but no eater's remorse for me! ;)

I had gotten fresh cranberries from the farmers market the Saturday before the holiday on a whim, not really sure what I was going to make. After looking around for some inspiration I decided to make a basic homemade cranberry sauce then use it for a marinade. The sauce itself was just the cranberries cooked down in a bit of water with a few tablespoons of blackstrap molasses. Once the sauce was made, I blended a cup of it with a heaping tablespoon of fresh minced rosemary, a few tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, a tablespoon of coconut aminos, and a pinch of black pepper. I sliced extra firm tofu into slabs then marinated them in the sauce overnight.

On Thanksgiving day, I fired up the broiler and put the tofu underneath for about 4-5 minutes each side. It came out even better than I expected! A little sweet and tart from the cranberries, but with that nice earthy aroma and flavor from the rosemary. Even my brother-in-law enjoyed it, and he's usually not big on tofu. The sauce was so good I used it again for a new meal on Friday.

We didn't have many leftovers from the holiday, but I had plenty of my farmers market veggies to use for a meal the day after. Nothing beats an easy casserole after a busy few days leading up to the holiday. Into a baking dish went chopped sweet potatoes, beets, fennel, tempeh and Red Russian Kale. I poured over the same version of the cranberry sauce marinade and mixed it all in. Popped it in the oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit and let it cook, covered, for about 45 minutes.

Max was interested in tasting this, too...

Another easy and pleasing bowl of goodness! I don't often use fresh cranberries in my cooking, so I'm glad to have some new ideas to add to the repertoire as they are little healthy gems. We've got a few more servings of this to enjoy into the beginning of the new week.

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To continue on with the theme of abundance, the BF's parents came back to collect our little fuzzy house guest Saturday and brought with some goodies from their trip to Florida. Citrus will never go to waste in our household, so a big bag of fresh oranges was gladly received. They also brought this beautiful papaya fresh off the tree!

I also made my usual Saturday trip to our local market, which was nice as the theme of the day was Small Business Saturday. Always love supporting my farmers and other local vendors! It was a quiet market as many vendors were taking the holiday off, and lots of shoppers were, as well. I got to purchase a lot of the usual veggies, and snagged a bag of fresh pecans from the southern part of our state. Talk about a delicious snack!

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Finally, I'm very thankful for the wonderful @naturalmedicine group on Steemit for once again facilitating a nice little challenge to get me on track with my meditation routine again. A nudge from a few of the members encouraged me to jump in for the Abundance Challenge starting today and finishing up on the 21st. I haven't done the meditation yet for the first day, however really enjoyed starting out the day with the homework to make a list of at least 50 people or things I am grateful for. The school nerd in me for some reason always enjoys "homework", so I think that component of the challenge appeals to me as a way to keep me motivated and engaged. It is a lovely way to keep the spirit of the holiday season going even when things get busy!

I will try to continue to share some of my thoughts and experiences throughout the next three weeks. Perhaps the discipline will help me find that "abundance" of time to tackle all the other goals I want to work on before the end of the year!

On that note...time to finish my turmeric tea and get to some mindful moments. Cheers to starting off the last month of the year on a high note!

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THE MEAT OF THE MATTER

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White meat, like poultry, was thought to have little eff­ect on our heart disease risk, compared to red meat, but a new study challenges that assumption. Researchers from the University of California San Francisco had 113 healthy adults consume either a diet high in saturated fat or one low in saturated fat, where protein came either from red meat, white meat or non-meat sources. Across both diets, red meat and white meat resulted in the same levels of total cholesterol and ‘bad’ cholesterol – in other words, there was no benefit to sticking to white meat to lower cholesterol. Researchers say that restricting meat altogether is more advisable for lowering blood cholesterol levels than previously thought, and that a plant-based diet featuring vegetables, dairy and legumes has the best benefits for cholesterol.
Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/health/@smon/the-meat-of-the-matter

Never take anything for granted!

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It's been a long while I wasn't being punctual to steemit. but today I would love to open my heart and write about the basic thing which is neglected every now and then. We take life and people for granted, weather it's our loved ones or our own life. I have been witnessing extremely heart breaking situation as my closed one is suffering through a life threatening illness. which has moved all of us. It is so weird that how we complained about little things in life and doesn't care much and just take everything lightly and randomly one day it all seems useless and the life itself seems to be very important when some of our closed ones suffers through drastic disease. and that affects us all and makes us realize the importance of life, health and relationships. if you are healthy you can conquer anything in life because health is wealth.

Image Source I just want you all to understand the importance of life and live it thoroughly. also to love your close ones and give them your time and love to the most, as we can't take anything for granted anyway. (**And also I would request all of you if you can suggest any natural or any medical treatment for kidney cancer which has now been spread throughout the body.**) I Will be grateful!🙏
Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/palnet/@praditya/never-take-anything-for-granted

Yoga for Hair growth: 5 yoga asanas to reduce hair fall | PINKVILLA

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Even a normal healthy person sheds hair daily. It is only when you shed more hair than normal that you would end up with premature balding.

Going bald need not be bad. Some people look really good being bald. But not everyone is so lucky. Besides not everyone, including those who look good being bald, want to be bald!

Apparently yoga can help. Perhaps it does. 

If you have a problem of abnormal hair fall, may be you should try these recommended asanas. Who knows, it may bring back your crowning glory. 

If you are already completely bald these asanas may not help. However, if they do, then you should definitely share the good news with others here, so that every bald men out there could benefit. 

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