According to statistics, the number of people who die suddenly of heart disease in China reaches 544,000 every year, which is equivalent to the total population of a small city, making the total number of sudden cardiac deaths in China the highest in the world. A few days ago, Phoenix launched a survey called “Is your heart okay”, out of 25460 participants, only 7.8% of the netizens said “heart is not tired”, and up to 41.0% said “very tired I feel like I can’t take it anymore”;
33.0% of people have recently experienced heart discomfort; unfortunately, when heart discomfort occurs, half of them “won’t seek medical attention, just bear it for a while and pass”. Compared with the importance of the heart to the human body, our attitude towards the heart is neglect and negligence.
Shortness of breath and hard nose means that the heart is tired
If a person’s heart beats 70 times a minute on average and lives 70 years, the heart will beat nearly 2.6 billion times in a lifetime. This fist-sized “powerful pump”, only one day, to beat about 100,000 times, pumping blood in various blood vessels “walk” through the distance, up to 60,000 kilometers, pumping blood enough to fill a tanker of about 18 tons.
The heart is the busiest and most fragile organ in our body, and inadvertently, we have made it more and more tired. Yang Li, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told reporters that modern people are breathing more and more rapidly, one time faster than the ancients, using only 3.33 seconds each time. Shortness of breath and heartbeat have an important relationship with health. Studies show that if adults maintain a heart rate of about 60 beats per minute when quiet, their life expectancy can reach 93 years; conversely, if the heart rate is greater than 80 beats per minute when quiet, their life expectancy is significantly shorter.
Although you can’t see it, the fact is that many lifestyle habits can scar your heart. With each puff of smoke, the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide in it irritates your lungs and causes your blood vessels to constrict in a circle, and your blood pressure gets higher and higher, which increases the resistance of your heart to expel blood outward. It has to fight tooth and nail to contract and try to squeeze the blood out to the whole body.
Over time, its muscles will become more and more fat, but the inner chambers become smaller and smaller. When you skip a morning meal as if nothing had happened, the lack of blood sugar supply causes your heart to lose power and has to beat harder and faster, almost exhausted. When you drink a lot of alcohol regardless, the blood alcohol concentration rises sharply and your heart is actually working for you in a state of intoxication and anesthesia. When you eat big fish and meat, those accumulating blood fats clog the blood vessels, cutting off the lifeline that supplies the heart with energy and leaving it dying ……
If the heart is tired, it will tell you in various ways: doing some light activities or just staying quiet, but also feel shortness of breath, which may be a manifestation of left heart insufficiency; the weather is obviously fine, but the left shoulder and the inner side of the left arm are bouts of soreness, which may be a manifestation of coronary heart disease; a hard nose indicates too much fat accumulation in the heart; edema in the lower limbs of middle-aged and elderly people is often a manifestation of heart insufficiency …… Unfortunately, many people ignore the distress signals sent by the heart until it can no longer hold on.
16 habits most “sad”
In addition to smoking and skipping breakfast and other lifestyle habits, what else is going on that makes our heart overworked? Huang Li said, “To be honest, I am most worried about the patients, one is the IT industry, such people’s buttocks are like glued to the bench, overtime and late nights, sedentary, excessive physical and mental fatigue, accumulated fatigue; one is obese patients, I often joke with them, waist circumference did not reduce to 90 cm or less do not see me again.”
The heart of the most tired people are divided into five categories: high-pressure social networking, including business executives and media people; sedentary less moving people, including civil servants and drivers, etc.; impatient more serious people, including police officers, teachers, etc.; excessive sports, especially weightlifting, wrestling, judo and other projects of athletes, as well as the usual physical activity less, suddenly a lot of exercise or do heavy physical labor; black and white people, such as night shift, security guards, etc..
Recently, the United States “Health” magazine website summed up the following 16 very comprehensive “sad” bad habits.
Watching TV: watching hours of TV can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Stressed emotions: depression, stress and anger, your heart will also suffer, through a friend to talk and other channels to relieve the pressure on the heart.
Ignore snoring: Snoring raises blood pressure rapidly and increases the risk of heart disease.
Not flossing: Studies have shown that gum disease and heart disease show a correlation, and treating gum disease can improve blood vessel function.
Isolation from the world: Loneliness hurts the heart, and people who have good relationships with family and friends have healthier hearts.
Shallow: Irregular exercise is the worst for the heart; regular, consistent and steady exercise is what makes for a healthy heart.
Like to drink freely: too much alcohol can raise blood pressure and increase the risk of heart failure.
Overeating: Obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, and weight can be controlled by eating less and eating healthy.
Self-neglect: Do not believe too much in your own health, scientific indicators can best explain the problem, three high patients, overweight people, smokers should do frequent check-ups.
Love of red meat: Studies have found that processed foods such as bacon and hot dogs increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and colorectal cancer.
Delay in seeking medical attention: After age 55, 90 percent of people develop symptoms such as high blood pressure, so it’s important to check blood pressure, lipid and blood sugar levels frequently to prevent problems before they occur.
Puffing on clouds: Smoking or secondhand smoke can contribute to the formation of blood clots that can clog arteries in the heart.
Forgetting to take your medication: High blood pressure is a “silent killer” and feeling good about yourself is no reason to stop taking your medication.
Not eating fruits and vegetables: A heart-healthy diet should, of course, be primarily vegetarian. In addition to fruits and vegetables, there should be nuts, whole grains, low-fat milk and high-protein foods.
Take abnormalities lightly: If you usually go up three flights of stairs in one breath with no problem, but one time suddenly go up one floor with shortness of breath and chest discomfort, then you should see your doctor quickly. The sooner you get treatment, the less likely it is that your heart muscle will be damaged.
Too heavy in taste: Too salty foods can raise blood pressure, and most people should not consume more than 2,300 mg of salt per day. People with high blood pressure should limit it to 1,500 milligrams.
Give your heart a regular maintenance
In Huang Li’s view, a person’s life is like a burning candle, if you take good care of it, do not let the wind blow, do not let the rain, so let it burn slowly, can light a long, long time; but if you keep “fanning the wind and lighting the fire”, the fire burning, it will soon burn out, and even will “Pop” a midway out. The heart is the same, reminding everyone that “every heart needs your good treatment.” The best way to repay our heart for its hard work is to give it a regular maintenance by following a few ways.
A good mix of red, yellow, green, white and black. Red refers to wine, 50D100 ml per day; yellow refers to tomatoes, carrots, 1 small dish per day; green refers to green vegetables, the right amount per day; white refers to oat flour, etc., 50 grams per day; black refers to black fungus, black sesame, 5D10 grams per day. Drink 250 grams of milk per day, and eat no more than four eggs per week.
Drink three cups of “safe water”. The first cup is half an hour before bedtime to drink cold boiled water; as cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction occur around 2:00 midnight, patients should wake up late at night to drink the second cup of water, especially in the sweaty summer or diarrhea, vomiting symptoms; the third cup of water arranged in the early morning after waking up to drink, this cup of water is very important to dilute the sticky blood.
Nuts are the best snack for the heart. Currently, the American Heart Association has classified nuts as “heart food”. Studies have shown that eating almonds twice a week, each time a handful (30 grams) or so, about 20-25, long-term adherence, the chances of heart disease or coronary heart disease will be reduced by 50%.
More sense of humor. A study in the United States found that heart patients have less sense of humor, or in the face of embarrassing scenes usually do not use humor to solve the problem. Even when they encounter happy things, they rarely laugh. And people who are cheerful and like to socialize are often more likely to have a healthy heart than those who are introverted.
Take a brisk walk with a pedometer. When people are walking fast, all organs of the body are exercised, which benefits the most is the heart. Professor Hu Dayi, chairman of the Chinese Medical Association’s Cardiovascular Disease Branch, has been taking 10,000 steps with a pedometer every day for nine years. The study found that compared to the elderly who walked less than 1 hour a week, those who walked more than 4 hours a week had 69% less cardiovascular hospitalization costs and 73% less mortality.
Deep squats are the best “heart exercise”. The action is: first do lower limb flexion and extension, relax the legs and ankles to prevent injury. Two feet apart, shoulder-width apart, arms outstretched, loose-waisted knees slowly squatting, upper body as straight as possible, stay about 10 seconds, both hands back, forked waist slowly get up. Repeat the squat 10 to 15 times, one or two times a day. Pay attention to the breathing throughout the process with, avoid squatting hard up, to prevent the phenomenon of head ischemia.