Atrial Fibrilation is described by Mayo Clinic as “an irregular and often rapid heart rate that commonly causes poor blood flow to the body.” “During atrial fibrillation, the heart's two upper chambers (the atria) beat chaotically and irregularly — out of coordination with the two lower chambers (the ventricles) of the heart. Atrial fibrillation symptoms often include heart palpitations, shortness of breath and weakness. Episodes of atrial fibrillation can come and go, or you may develop atrial fibrillation that doesn't go away and may require treatment. Although atrial fibrillation itself usually isn't life-threatening, it is a serious medical condition that sometimes requires emergency treatment. It can lead to complications.
A person's appetite often reduces with age and keeping them interested in food can be difficult, ensuring that they have the correct nutritional intake is therefore even more important." The National Parkinson Foundation website further states, "Overcoming the challenges that surround maintaining correct nutritional intake can be difficult even for healthy people, but even more so for people living with Parkinson's due to the disease affecting their ability to shop, prepare and eat food." As Mr. Carts' Parkinson's progressed he required more help with eating and drinking due to
An ischemic stroke is typically caused by excess buildup of plague on the blood vessel walls that narrows blood flow dramatically. A hemorrhagic stroke typically occurs when the blood vessel walls weaken over time, which leads to a bulge or rupture of the vessel. Aneurysm is the most common type of hemorrhagic strokes with a low survival rate. They also kill brain cells, which can never regenerate. The affect of strokes on the body can range between mild dizziness or slight numbness to impaired speech and loss of motor control.
How To Analyze Your Diet Date: December 2nd , 2009 Nowadays, people are always pressured by the media and by their society to stay in shape. There are many reasons on why people would want to keep fit. Keeping fit according to our society is a sign of health, beauty, attractiveness and in some cases is needed to reach high positions in the career ladder. As a result, many people look for cheap and easy ways to accomplish their goals of losing weight especially when conventional dieting and exercise failed or is unattainable in this busy lifestyle. These “easy and cheap ways” instead of shaping your body can instead be a cause of damage to your health.
The food we consume is essential to provide us with protein energy and nutrients. Inadequate supply of these requirements results in the body becoming more vulnerable to illness and disease. When food is consumed by a person with malnutrition, their body is unable to utilize the food they eat due to their illness. Some effects of children with malnutrition can lose more than 10% of their body weight, with no side effects but if more than 40% is lose the consequences can be fatal. Heart failure, electrolyte imbalance or low body temperature can possibly result from inadequate supplements Up to 10% of a person's body weight can be lost without side effects, but if more than 40% is lost, the situation is almost always fatal.
The Difference Between Healthy Eating and Fad Diets Abstract Healthy eating and fad diets are not comparable in any way. Fad diets are a quick fix to a long term solution. Healthy eating is the best solution to saving your life and keeping you at an ideal weight. Many people think that a diet is the way to go because most people are lazy and want instant results that they will not keep up with in the future. Some people do it to lose weight for a special occasion, because the doctor said so, or to show off for a long time friend.
We all eat differently, but it is important to remember that we are what we eat. Why is it important to make sure that our economy is eating healthy and that we are in good shape so that we don’t see love ones or even ourselves go through life with pain and heartache? Here are some of the reasons why. Diet shouldn’t be thought of as a strict “you can’t eat that” regimen. We should think of it as a “conscious effort to eat healthy, well-balanced foods that will benefit [our bodies].” The Dietary Guidelines for Americans described a healthy diet as one that balances calories with physical activity to manage weight, includes fewer food foods with sodium (salt), saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, added sugars and refined grains.
TWO METHODS OF LOSING WEIGHT Over weight and obesity is one of the problems that majority of people face. Obesity and excess fat can led to different diseases like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol and so on which is not healthy for the body or health of an individual. Almost half of Americans are faced with this problem and as a result want to lose weight to stay healthy and fit. It is important that weight is lost for healthy living, though there are different methods of losing weight, there are two methods that would be discussed which are surgical method of losing weight and dieting. Surgical method of losing weight is one extreme medical way in which instruments would be used to remove fat from the body or procedure would be made to reduce the stomach so that there can be less intake of food or less appetite for food.
You might be surprised at the multitude of ways in which smoking affects your body and at the number of diseases it could cause. Smoking is especially bad for your respiratory system. When you smoke a cigarette you inhale the smoke into your lungs. This means that your lungs are directly exposed to the 4,000 toxic substances in which cigarette smoke contains. These substances can impair your lungs ability to function and interfere with the mechanisms that protect them from disease.
Smoking cigarettes, above all else is extremely bad for your health, not only physically but psychologically. Smoking can cause cancer of the mouth, throat, and lungs; 30% of deaths in Canada are due to smoking related cancer cases. Smoking has been linked to several physical damages as well, this includes aged eyes (tobacco destroys eye cells), wrinkled lips, stained teeth, stained fingers, and lifeless hair. Tobacco cigarettes are causes the buildup of plaque in arteries, causing heart attacks and heart diseases. Smoking causes severe damage to your health and physical appearance, therefore they should be illegal.