Heart myths

While human affairs, food is made daily activities and sleep, his heart constantly and seamlessly works. It beats with a frequency of 100,000 beats per day, 37 million per year and around 3 billion impact in the life. His work is not always steady. It is likely that sometimes the pulse to be amplified for no apparent reason. You might occasionally feel palpitations or how your heart jumps. When this happens, ask yourself: Is it Normal? At first glance this question seems elementary, but actually is not so, especially if you are not aware of at least the most important facts about heart rate and rhythm. Below are five common and widespread misconceptions and the truth about them.
Myth № 1: irregularly heartbeat means that going through a heart attack
It almost never is. Even if sometimes it is quite normal to feel how your heart skips beats or irregular. If the heart rhythm track of every person long enough you will notice that his heart sometimes skips or reduced further. In the absence of accompanying symptoms (of pain behind the sternum or shortness of breath), these phenomena do not mean anything, much less attack. If the feeling of palpitations or jumping is new to you or is often lately, this may indicate the presence of irregularly heartbeat (arrhythmia). Most of arrhythmia are relatively harmless. This does not mean, however, that should be ignored completely. Some types of irregularly heartbeat can put you at increased risk of heart attack, cardiac arrest and sudden death. It is important to tell your family doctor about your heart irregularly, especially if it is new or frequent relapses. Irregular heartbeat atrial of the heart are more common and fortunately with a better prognosis, while the cameras are more dangerous. The most common arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation are at increased likelihood that the occurrence of further heart attack. Atrial fibrillation to be able to prove the conduct of electrocardiogram (ECG).
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Keeping a very healthy way of life today is becoming increasingly popular – the young women drink green tea, business men started the day with breakfast diet (and smoke light cigarettes) even lie down to sleep on “hungry belly, and in the morning are all fitness. Why? Because all do that!?. Yes, advice on healthy lifestyles are almost in every magazine.
But it turns out that some recommendations are simply myths.
1. Food
Filling of sugar and sugar substitutes – no. Sugar substitutes (ksilit, cyclamate, saccharin) also contain calories. They increase appetite, and their use in large amounts can cause stomach upset. If you are diabetic, to which the choice between sugar and its substitutes is literally a matter of life and death, you better not take up sweeteners.
“Live” yogurt is most useful.
A “living” can be considered that only yogurt that is not pasteurized (ie it has no heat treatment) and can be stored at low temperature no more than a week (only in this way actually bacteria remain alive). Yogurt appearing for weeks on the shelves in supermarkets, can not be “live”.
Is harmful to eat at night.
When you actually fall for the night? Is harmful to eat two hours before sleep, because otherwise food can not be processed. And if you’re an owl? Dinner at midnight and you go to sleep at 2.30. The principle is respected and not be tortured by hunger. In all cases it is advisable to dinner consists of pork steak with fried potatoes – even consumed 4 hours before bedtime, it will prevent good sleep and morning headaches is guaranteed. Healthy food is very expensive because it is prepared in special recipes. It is trying to convince us of the manufacturers low calorie granola, soy bread, protein cocktails, etc. Baseline products (grains, honey, etc.) is very low and the high price we pay, because a lot easier to open the finished product, not alone to raise oats, walnuts and melim to three times to spend in vegetable mincer puree. Not pay for the utility, but for saving time.
2. Sports
Sport is health, the more you are training, the better.
Classes more than two hours a day but can export the joints, damage muscles and cause cardiovascular and gastrointestinal problems can disrupt the menstrual cycle.
The morning should start with gymnastics.
What is expected of morning exercises? Improving physical fitness, strengthen muscles, filling alertness throughout the day. The brain needs more time to wake up than the body. Better start your day with water procedures and after that – go to the exercises.
Running strengthens the clean air health.
Where you will find that fresh air if you run along the bustling and noisy boulevard? You breathe fully breast and your lungs are working – they absorb all the exhaust gases. Even keen on jogging Americans already cooled to the sport this way. It turned out that he very heavily loaded joints, but too little muscle. If you found a place with fresh air, it is better to walk quickly or simply to escape quickly.
3. Everything else
Light cigarettes are less harmful
They really contain less amount of resin and nicotine, but the right of a smoker sworn it requires a dose of nicotine. He will not smoke three “normal” and 5 “light” cigarettes and “pulling” more deeply in order to “feel”. Less harmful cigarettes simply do not exist!
Stress – these are the negative experiences.
Ie news of the death of your uncle from America will shorten your life, and his millions who have bequeathed – you extend it? Hardly! In fact, strong positive experiences can also shake the body, and negative and can lead to heart attack just as much. Not in vain yoga advised not to surrender to emotions, whatever they are, and to treat everything philosophically.