How to Recognize a Heart Attack

More than 300,000 heart attack victims die each year before they reach the hospital. Don't make the same fatal mistake. Know the warning signs.
   
  While symptoms of heart attack can vary, here are the most common. If you experience any of the following for 2 minutes or more, call your local emergency medical service immediately, or get to the nearest hospital or cardiac-care unit as soon as possible.

• A pain in the centre of the chest that can range from a mild feeling of tightness to an agonizing, crushing sensation.
• Pain that comes on suddenly or appears gradually, and which may be continuous or intermittent, fading then returning every few minutes.
• Pain that spreads to the shoulders, arms, jaw, neck, or stomach.
• Possible dizziness, sweating, fainting, nausea, shortness of breath, chills or a feeling of severe indigestion, with or without the pains mentioned above.

It is important  to know about these fact to save your life and also for your healthy life .

CHICK-PEAS

Often used as substitute for meat because they are loaded with protein,a cup of boiled chick-peas also has a
fair amount of calcium super fiber content,and an incredible amount of potassium making chick peas one of the best food available to lower blood pressure  and prevent stroke.studies also indicate that chick peas lower cholesterol to the extent that they may help reduce heart disease .A half cup comes in at 134 calories.

CHICKEN BREAST

Chicken breast is low in calories, low in fat, and low in sodium a perfect source of protein for anyone trying to fend off heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, or obesity. Half a roasted chicken breast without skin has 142 calories.

BENEFIT OF EXERCISE

             BIG BENEFIT OF EXERCISE FOR HEART ATTACK VICTIMS

Before 1950,doctors prescribed bed rest--and lots of it for any one who would suffered a heart attack.Now they recommend a progressive ,medically supervised program of exercise,along with dietary changes,smoking cessation,relaxation training,and stress reduction.
   In fact studies have found that heart attack victims who are put on a rehabilitation program that includes exercise are less likely to die from a second heart attack.Researches came to this conclusion after following more than 4,500 heart attack victims over three years.

  If you have a heart attack,you can expect an exercise that as early as two weeks afterward to test your tolerance for exertion.Then you will be prescribed a regimen designed to gradually build up your heart to working at 85 percent of maximum capacity.And you will be expected to follow this strategy for the rest of your (hopefully long)life.
 Doctors now says that a combination of early detection,immediate treatment,follow up drug therapy,diet modification,and exercise can improve the quality and perhaps the quantity of life for people who've had heart attacks.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS

The little garden germs provide a good shot of vitamins A and C.They have little sodium,little fat,and moderately high levels of potassium and fiber.At 55 calories a cup,they make the weight control petrol.