Heart Health
Heart Attack Prevention & Precaution Tips
Heart attack is also known as Myocardial Infarction (MI). It occurs when the flow of blood supply to a part of the heart is blocked. Early detection of heart disease helps heart attack prevention.
Precautions for Healthy Heart
Heart disease can be prevented by following a healthy living. Below mentioned are few heart attack precaution strategies and tips to prevent a heart attack. A healthy lifestyle change reduces the risk of heart diseases. Let's see some easy lifestyle changes to prevent heart attacks:
- Quit smoking
- Keep check and control the cholesterol levels
- Control blood pressure levels
- Exercise and be physically fit
- Loose the extra weights
- Choose a diet for a healthy heart
- Get proper sleep
- Manage stress
- Control the blood sugar level
How to Prevent a Heart Attack
Heart attack prevention is possible through bringing in healthy lifestyle changes, taking medications on time, and by going for a regular heart check up.
Heart Healthy Diet
A healthy diet prevents heart attack, below suggested are some diet changes for a healthy heart:
- Eat fish - Fish is a good source of protein, omega 3 fatty acids and other nutrients, which reduces the risk of heart diseases.
- Eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and beans - Plant foods help in fighting the heart disease.
- Avoid artificial trans-fats completely. Items such as bakery products, fast foods, frozen pizza, etc. increase "bad" (LDL) cholesterol level.
- Limit saturated fat to no more than 7% - 10% of calories. Avoid packaged foods.
- Increase the quantity of protein in food with fish, poultry (without the skin), lean cuts of meat, low-fat or fat-free dairy, nuts, beans, tofu and legumes.
- Reduce salt- to control the blood pressure.
Heart attack prevention diet goes a long yet an easy way to keep healthy heart. Follow the healthy heart attack prevention tips with exercising, right food choices and regular checkup.
Heart Attack Symptoms
Heart attack symptoms in some cases are sudden and intense, however, they start slowly with mild discomfort as mentioned below:
- Heaviness or pain in the chest, arm, or below the breastbone
- Discomfort radiating to the back, jaw, throat, or arm
- Heartburn
- Cold sweat, nausea, vomiting, or dizziness
- Shortness of breath
Stay Fit Stay Active, make heart healthy by healthy food choices, adapt to healthy living lifestyle. Be pro-active and get a routine heart health checks. These checkups will help in assessing risk factors for any illness, early detection, resulting in proper treatment and in some cases illness can be completely cured. Get to know your health status through comprehensive and customised health check up packages provided by Indus Health Plus, the preventive health check up specialist.
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