Protect Your Heart Before It Gets Blocked and Clogged

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It is easy to measure your pulse. Do this by putting your fingers at the neck and wrist as shown in the picture above. The thumb should never be used for this purpose as its strong pulse may interfere with your exact pulse. That means you may have added your thumb's pulse accidentally which gives you an inaccurate pulse reading.

Do you have Heart Disease? Do this self-diagnose Test.

Eating habits, stress, genetic are some of the main factors that lead to the possibility of getting heart disease. If you have the conditions stated below, please tick behind each condition that applies to you otherwise just ignores it. Each tick earns you one mark.

1. Your age is between 30 to 45 years old
2. You smoke
3. Your family members have the record of smoking
4. You are a meat eater
5. Your breakfast includes two eggs or more
6. You feel sleepy easily
7. You are suffering from insomnia
8. You are always in a bad mood and/ or a hot temper
9. You have a close family member (a parent, brother or sister) with heart disease
10. You always work longer indoor and/or in the office
11. You like to watch television while having tidbit or snack to bite on
12. You eat less or none of fruits
13. You always sweat (the sweating is not caused by exercise or any physical movements)
14. You eat chicken or any meats together with their skins
15. Your body feels extremely weak or tired due to a busy workload
16. You prefer to eat out rather than to cook at home
17. You seldom or do not do exercise
18. You get annoyed or irritated easily
19. You always feel your stomach with something even though you do not feel hungry at all
20. You have a bad habit of drinking alcohol
21. You like to eat foodstuff that has a very strong taste or odor. That means your diet has many artificial coloring or chemical compounds add-in.
22. You eat less or none of the bean category foods
23. You eat less fiber rich foods. These foods include vegetables, wheat, grains, and etc.

Next, add up all the marks that you obtained from this self-test and see the result below:

0 - 6 marks

Congratulation! You are a healthy person. That means you have a very good health condition and healthy lifestyle. Your possibility of getting heart disease is extremely low, so you should maintain and make this healthy lifestyle as your habit.

7 - 12 marks

Oops! You are alerted for a warning status. At this stage, you should pay more attention to your health. That means you should adjust your daily diet, eating habit accordingly to maintain your body's optimum health. Besides that, you are advised to keep up an aerobic exercise regularly, quit smoking, reduce the intake of fat- and cholesterol rich foodstuffs, and reduce the intake of alcoholic and caffeinated drinks. Additionally, you should find out appropriate ways to reduce your stress besides having your body regularly checked so that your heart health can be monitored from time to time.

13 - 23 marks

You are categorized under a high risk group of heart disease. Whether you are experiencing symptoms arising from heart disease, or you might have no symptoms to be alerted, your life can be life-threatening or fatal as the death can visit you anytime and anyplace. Therefore, you should not hesitate to seek for a medical treatment or diagnosis. As I have mentioned earlier, any delay at this stage can result in permanently reduced as well as weaken function of the heart which will later cause the extensive damage to the heart tissue and muscle. The sudden onset of arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation always invites the death to knock at your door.

What is the Daily Care to strengthen your Heart Health?

Here, I will introduce you a simple and easy to follow method to enhance your heart health.

Wear socks appropriately and Avoid Exposing your Back

The ancient Chinese practitioners tell us that all diseases begin at our foot. If every one of us wears socks including when we sleep at night, then our feet can maintain its warmth while avoiding the intrusion of cold air which tends to penetrate through our foot palm. As most Chinese practitioners believe that human's back is the meeting point of “yang” breath, or in order words, the terminal of acupuncture points, it is easier to expose to any intrusion of “qi” or a parcel of air into other parts of our organs, which might further indulge unprecedented health consequences. Therefore, I advise you to wear socks to protect your feet and at the same time help protecting your heart. Similarly, keep yourself away from exposing your back is always a great advantage to maintain your heart health.