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Since as a schoolboy -do they still have schools ? - I have been taking my mothers advice of consuming a daily fish oil pill, usually of the Halibut Liver Oil variety, now known as Omega 3 in the present yuppie-speak, and for the past few years a daily Aspirin, and I also cut down on the fatty meats, salt, dairy produce, bacon and eggs,fish and chips etc. years ago, not fanatically but sensibly - I thought.
When my blood pressure and cholesterol exceeded the NZ CAA norms, I started the bood pressure and Statin pills, and at my last renewal medical the ECG was OK but my age ( what advancing age ? ) dictated a stress ECG during which the operator raised his eyes and asked if I was driving home ? !!
Within a week I had 2 arterial stents inserted. I was not happy, and complained to the surgeon about all the precautions I had taken, so what was the point ? He suggested that my precautions had only delayed the fateful day, not prevented it.
Medical science changes its' mind about every 5 years - eggs are OK again now, apparently - and I once had a Flt. Eng. who decreed that when the med. profession got around to admitting that lying around on the sofa eating crisps and drinking beer was the best formula for longevity and fitness, he was way ahead of them !
Twelve minutes of aerobic exercise like, ski machine, swimming, cycling or, if you have to, running. (Running is the least healthy as it cracks up your ankles/knees/hips in later life and has your heart bouncing up and down inside your chest).
That is twelve minutes continuous when the heart rate has reached the aerobic level, so seventeen to twenty minutes should do it, anything after that twelve minutes is only burning calories and therefore good for weight loss, the cardiac work has ben done. Stop/Start games like tennis, squash, badminton etc. are healthy but you really do need that continuous twelve minutes at the aerobic level. Got all this from a heart specialist, by the way.
They say eating oatmeal, like porridge etc. can reduce cholesterol too.
They can never make their minds up - 7 years ago mine was 5 - excellent, ideal they said. BP 120/80 - excellent they said for a 50 yr old. 1 month ago had it checked again - 4.5 and BP 117/74. We'd like it a bit lower ... for ****'s sake, what do you want ....
Dark ales (stick to CAMRA brews to avoid the other crap beer factories put in the commercial stuff) and red wine. Apparently the flavinoids help reduce cholesterol. BP 120/80, cholesterol 4.7 and resting pulse rate 62bpm at last medical.
Do you smoke?
Do you drink excessively?(More than 3 standard drinks per day)
Are you more than 10% over your ideal BMI?
Do you exercise?
Does your family have a cardiac/blood pressure history?
Have you had your homocysteine levels checked?
Do you know what red yeast rice is?
If you answer no to at least three of the above and have a cholesterol level of greater than 7.0 go and have a chat to your nearest cardiologist
I might reflect on the FACT that the bloke that "Invented"
jogging died of a heart attack whilst out jogging.
I don't drink at all now,pity about that, but I do still smoke.
Exercise is something schools call their books as far as I
can recall?
My BP is usually about 125/75. Heart rate generally normal.
I think you can cause more problems by worrying about HAVING
problems.
Just stood on the scales. Just under 13 stones. That'll do me.
The Memsahib is heavier, and gets upset about it. I don't.
I was 10 1/2 stone in the Air Force.
Ipso Facto, I've put on 2 1/2 stones in the intervening 40 odd years.
Round about 12 ounces per annum.
I must find something else to worry about.
Hey Wings Warped, you forgot the essential fried bread upon which you place the fried tomatoes since cooked tomatoes are better than raw for lycopine thus offsetting the fried slice.
Hey Wings Warped, you forgot the essential fried bread upon which you place the fried tomatoes since cooked tomatoes are better than raw for lycopine thus offsetting the fried slice.
Sounds like you know far too much about nutrition and nothing like enough about breakfast.
Grilled tomato seems to be able to maintain 400 degrees celsius on a plate for 2 hours, ensuring:
1) no gustative pleasure
2) a burnt mouth
Agree though that a bit of fried bread would be a good complement.
A bowl of proper porridge beforehand and a glass of half decent single malt would not be a bad thing either.
BP 120/80 ish
Resting HR 62
Total Cholesterol 3.8
LDL 2.2
Triglycerides 1.6
No smoking
Sane alcohol levels
BMI 23
no family history
no stress factors
well and fit, have never even had a cold in decades
That was the situation a while back when I had a full blown heart attack, went into cardiac arrest and had two stents in the "widow-maker" coronary artery. All without symptoms or pain. I once had an ingrown toenail that hurt orders of magnitude more than anything I experienced during this event. When I asked my cardiologist what he would have done if I had seen him a week before the attack, he said "Nothing."
I have lost all faith in the numbers that are supposed to indicate a safe zone. I have seen absurdly obese people and used to think they were a heart attack waiting to happen, and of course, it never did. I agree with the above poster: start worrying about something else. Just be ready to take your ride when they punch your ticket cuz there's probably little you can do about it anyway.
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