Heart Advice
By: Robert NamTotal Views: 204, Word Count: 499,
In reality, your heart is just a muscle. Human heart is a very complicated and a complex organ. It is located little left to the middle of your chest and it is the size of your fist. There are several muscles all over your body .i.e. arms, legs, and back. However, the heart muscle is something special because of the function, which it performs. The heart circulates blood around all your body organs. The blood provides your body system with the oxygen and the nutrient, which it needs. In addition, it carries away all the waste.
Your heart works like a pump. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it again to the lungs. Whereas the left side of the heart does the exact opposite, i.e. it receives blood from the lungs and pumps it to the body system.
Before each of the heart beat, your heart fills with a blood then its muscle contracts to squirt the blood along and when the heart contracts , it squeezes. Your heart does this work for you all the day, all night, all the time from the moment of your birth till the last breath of your life!
Heart is composed of four chambers, i.e. many arteries and many veins. The four chambers of the heart are known as atrium and ventricles. The two upper chambers of the heart are called atriums and the bottom chambers are called as ventricles. Therefore, it is very important to keep your heart healthy in order to have a long life span.
Advice for a healthy heart
You will be successful in keeping your heart healthy, if you follow the below precautions. It includes.
- Quite the smoking
- Limit the drinking of alcohol
- Follow a healthy heart diet
- Do regular exercise
- Give some time for physical activities too
- Eat a low fat diet
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Get a regular heath screening or checkup done
- Control your blood pressure level
- Control your cholesterol level
- Control your diabetes level
- Try to manage your stress level
Treatments of heart diseases
Treatment of heart disease typically involves a combination of drugs, changes in the life style and other procedures. It may include.
· Drugs
· Catheter based treatments
· By pass surgery
· Change in the life style
· Heart transplant
· Open surgery
· Medications
· Antibiotics
· Medical devices
Therefore, now you know that heart should not only be loved as a gift but in the real life too. Heart is very precious; every one should take care of their heart. It starts pumping blood for you before you were born and continue pumping till the last breath in this world.
About the Author
Dr. Robert Nam is a well known heart specialist and has done postgraduate training in cardiology at the national heart hospital, the London chest hospital and UCL hospital, London. He was also engaged in research at the national heart and lung institute. Nowadays he is working as a consultant cardiologist at UCL hospital, London.
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