How to prevent heart attack
Heart attacks can be prevented by arresting the development of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries which depends on the level of cholesterol in the blood and this level of cholesterol depends upon the intake of saturated fats in the diet.
Vegetables, fish and poultry meat contain less of cholesterol and can be safely eaten by heart patients. Heart patients should avoid fried food, intake of ghee or oil other than sufflower oil and sunflower oil and the like.
Yellow (yolk) of the egg, mutton, beef, pork etc. contain too much of cholesterol and should be avoided by, heart patients.
Coffee drinkers are more susceptible to heart attacks than even cigarette smokers. Coffee is believed to be a causative agent of heart diseases. The blood level of cholesterol is in direct proportion to the coffee intake of an individual
An occasional cup of tea a day may make a heart attack less likely. The British medical Journal “LANCET” reports - that tea stimulates part of the central nervous system and can be good, for the heart. This is due to the presence in tea of thiophylline which has a relaxing effect on blood vessels. While the risk of heart attack is less among tea drinkers than in those who do not drink it, the journal says coffee is bad for the heart and coffee drinkers run greater risk of heart attack than non-drinkers of coffee.
Heart patients should frequently take fruits. Pomegranate, oranges and grapes are recommended. Eat plenty of soya beans as the Chinese and Japanese do; and very few of them suffer from heart trouble
Eating carrot is good for the heart. You can eat halwa prepared out of carrots or drink sherbat made out of carrots.
To cure heart disease: Powder the seeds of pomegranate, add a little sugar candy, a little powdered cinnamon bark, and powdered cardamoms, mix well, sieve and store.
Eat 3-4 grams of this powder and drink some water once a day. This will ensure good digestion and will help to cure heart disease.
Eating of powdered coriander, mixed with sugar candy, or eating of bottle gourd (cooked) is good for heart patients. Lately, a team of doctors from Newcastle University have discovered that boiled or fried onions can be used even for hospital prescription. They say it raises the blood’s capacity to dissolve deadly internal clots. Hence the common onion could become a dramatic new weapon to fight one of the dreaded diseases ‘coronary thrombosis’
When the doctor recommends a diet low in calories, fat, cholesteroland starch as an anti-coronary measure, germinated wheat which could double for animal and dairy products as well as cereals and legumes could go a long way to solve the problems. I
Uncooked wheat germ is incredibly nutritious because cooking deprives the wheat of some vitamins.
Wheat germ is not only richer in pure protein than any known food but it, is also the cheapest; moreover, its protein is cholesterol free and it contains a negligible amount of saturated fat. In the first three days of germination,fhere is a five-fold increase in Bl,
B2 and E vitamins. Many grandmothers are well aware of the medicinal value of garlic and advocate its use at regular intervals for relieving unpleasant sensations associated with the hardening of arteries and high blood pressure.
For most of us, pure ghee only hastens heart trouble by causing cholesterol deposits in the arteries.
A word about lecithin, the nourisher of the skin and the-thin underlying layer of fat which gives the skin its glow and sheen.
In its natural form lecithin is found in fruit-juice, liver and brain. It is a veritable life saver, because it is a natural emulsifier of fat which is the heart’s greatest enemy.
Soya bean is one of the richest foods containing lecithin This is probably why so few Japanese and Chinese suffer from heart-trouble. They eat plenty of soya bean, calling it their “holy bean” and their “meat without a bone”. Besides its nutty flavour it has the added advantage of being cheap.
Milk is not good for heart patients; but butter-milk is very good.
