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    Transcript of a chat with Dr. Devi Shetty , Narayana Hrudayalaya
    A chat with Dr. Devi Shetty , Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.

    Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart ?

    Ans:
    1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
    2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
    3. Quit smoking
    4. Control weight
    5. Control blood pressure and sugar

    Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
    Ans: No

    Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
    Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

    Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?
    Ans: Yes

    Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?
    Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.

    Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart?
    Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints .

    Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so?
    Ans: Mother Theresa, who was my patient.

    Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
    Ans: Extremely rare

    Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age (I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?
    Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.

    Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart?
    Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.

    Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
    Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.

    Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?
    Ans: Yoga helps.

    Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
    Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil..

    Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
    Ans: All oils are bad .

    Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test?
    Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.

    Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
    Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.

    Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?
    Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.

    Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems.
    Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.

    Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
    Ans: Yes.

    Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true?
    Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child

    Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?
    Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. Ho wever, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.

    Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short/long term)?
    Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. Ho wever, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.

    Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: How would you define junk food?
    Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds, samosas, and even masala dosas.

    Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?
    Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.

    Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)?
    Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.

    Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems?
    Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.

    Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?
    Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot..

    Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
    Ans: Yes.. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.

    Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?
    Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time, Control cholesterol, BP, weight.

    Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?
    Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.

    Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
    Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.

    Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
    Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ......
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    Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
    Ans: All oils are bad .
    I was shocked to see this. I remember reading several articles which Claim Olive Oil to be the best "oil" out of the others, when it came to Heart Disease.

    CAN OLIVE OIL HELP PREVENT HEART ATTACKS?
    A recent study looked at the basic disease process behind heart attacks: the development of blood clots that block the coronary arteries. Several studies in Mediterranean countries have shown that the incidence of heart disease is lower than would be expected by blood cholesterol levels. Many feel that this discrepancy can be explained by the high amount of olive oil in the diet in this region. But what is it in olive oil that lowers heart attack risk? Researchers Larsen LF, Jespersen J, and Marckmann P at the Centre for Advanced Food Studies, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark decided to see if it was due to olive oil affecting the blood's basic ability to form clots. Less effective clotting would mean fewer heart attacks. The researchers compared the effects of virgin olive oil with those of rapeseed and sunflower oils on blood coagulation factor VII, which is a key factor in blood clot formation. In this study eighteen healthy young men consumed diets enriched with olive oil, sunflower oil, or rapeseed oil for a period of 3 weeks. Levels of Factor VII were significantly lower in those who ate olive oil compared to sunflower or rapeseed (canola) oil. The study's conclusion was that olive oil may lower the procoagulant tendency of fatty meals which could explain the low incidence of heart attacks in Mediterranean countries.

    http://www.oliveoilsource.com/page/heart-disease
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    Quote Originally Posted by NOV
    Transcript of a chat with Dr. Devi Shetty , Narayana Hrudayalaya
    A chat with Dr. Devi Shetty , Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.

    Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart ?

    Ans:
    1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
    2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
    3. Quit smoking
    4. Control weight
    5. Control blood pressure and sugar

    Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
    Ans: No

    Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
    Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

    Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?
    Ans: Yes

    Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?
    Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.

    Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart?
    Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints .

    Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so?
    Ans: Mother Theresa, who was my patient.

    Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
    Ans: Extremely rare

    Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age (I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?
    Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.

    Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart?
    Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.

    Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
    Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.

    Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?
    Ans: Yoga helps.

    Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
    Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil..

    Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
    Ans: All oils are bad .

    Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test?
    Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.

    Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
    Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.

    Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?
    Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.

    Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems.
    Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.

    Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
    Ans: Yes.

    Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true?
    Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child

    Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?
    Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. Ho wever, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.

    Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short/long term)?
    Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. Ho wever, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.

    Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: How would you define junk food?
    Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds, samosas, and even masala dosas.

    Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?
    Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.

    Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)?
    Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.

    Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems?
    Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.

    Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?
    Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot..

    Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
    Ans: Yes.. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.

    Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?
    Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time, Control cholesterol, BP, weight.

    Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?
    Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.

    Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks?
    Ans : No.

    Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
    Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.

    Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
    Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ......

    pls provide the website from which you got this info
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    I got it in my mail.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NOV
    I got it in my mail.
    Oh Ok, I thought there would be more info if the above info was from a web site never mind
    Om Namaste astu Bhagavan Vishveshvaraya Mahadevaya Triambakaya Tripurantakaya Trikalagni kalaya kalagnirudraya Neelakanthaya Mrutyunjayaya Sarveshvaraya Sadashivaya Shriman Mahadevaya Namah Om Namah Shivaye Om Om Namah Shivaye Om Om Namah Shivaye

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    Study after study has suggested (nothing can be proved for certainty in the dietary stuff, unfortunately, unless the effect is sudden and immediate as in the case of alcohal / poison)that fish oil contains omega 3 that's good for the heart and it's being marketed in a massive way.

    Similarly, olive oil is also highly recommended to have positive effects (due to "good cholestral").

    That this doctor dismisses them both has to be taken with a pinch of salt, IMO.

    I can understand the fish thingy (possibly the doc is a veggie) but why olive oil?

    Interestingly, even the peanut oil (i.e. the ground nut oil) as well as canola / corn oil etc that are sold in places like sams club does not seem to have cholestral, if one goes by the numbers pasted on the can.

    Of all the oils, so far only palm & coconut oil are tainted by the US media as bad for heart. They often encourage people to use a variety of oils and not depend on just one kind.

    Obviously, "அளவுக்கு மீறினால் அமிர்தமும் நஞ்சு" which will apply to oil as well. OTOH, total lack of oil in cooking, while not practical could also mean missing some easily available essential nutrients for the body.

    What if one's heart is healthy (i.e. at a point of time, obviously there's no body part that can be perfectly healthy forever) but another organ is weak? That person is still going to suffer in life, isn't it?

    Balance is the key in diet. So are lifestyle changes (activities / exercise / stress management etc).

    That is, from our end. There are 100 other external agents to spoil our health anyways So, perfect health is a myth under current conditions.

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    - There are 100 other external agents to spoil our health anyways So, perfect health is a myth under current conditions.


    - அப்படி இல்லை.நாக்கை அடக்க வேண்டும்.

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    There's another funny answer from this doc "nature protects women till 45" What's that magic thingy about 45? There's nothing like that.

    He was talking to an intelligent group of audience and could have told the proper reason - that women are protected till such time they have the menstrural cycle, instead of coming with an arbitrary age

    Such "adhoc" attitude is seen is many answers.

    Personally, I've stopped trusting "famous" doctors for advice on general health care because of the greed / commercialism that plagues the HC industry. (They are necessary in case of sickness and medical emergencies but not on a day to day advice).

    Older generation is a lot more trustworthy (as long as "factual science" - not some studies - does not obviously contradict them).

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