THIS WAS WORTH PASSING ON - PLEASE REMEMBER IT.
Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home, unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can you do? You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONESince many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed in order.) Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their Lives!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240's newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
TRY THESE FIVE FOOD TRICKS
AND SEE THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES IN YOUR DAY.
You know the tell-tale signs: First your eyelids get droopy, then whatever's on your computer screen starts to swim around, and you feel glued to your chair. Yes, it's the afternoon slump. And for those who've had it everyday for years, it can seem hopeless. But there is hope.
1. Eat a light breakfast combining low-sugar cereal and low-fat milk or yogurt.
Here's why:
Not eating breakfast puts you at an energy deficit when you need the fuel the most. Sugar and carbohydrates alone will trigger an energy rush that quickly peters out. Carbohydrates combined with protein make for long-lasting energy. Fat and lots of calories will trigger serotonin production in your brain, making you more calm, almost sleepy.
2. Have one or two cups of coffee.
Here's why:
The caffeine in coffee stimulates your whole system. One or two cups makes you a coffee achiever. Caffeine is also a drug, and consuming more than five cups a day can trigger withdrawal symptoms when you are not drinking it. People who drink lots of coffee often spend their days on an energy roller coaster, with extreme highs after coffee and deep lows as it wears off. Not only is this depressing, it's exhausting.
3. Make lunch light and protein-rich -- with choices like a low-fat turkey sandwich.
Here's why:
Any meal over 1,000 calories will slow you down and make you drowsy.
Too many carbohydrates without protein (pasta for example) will elevate serotonin levels in your brain, leaving you calm and sleepy for the afternoon. Too much fat will do the same thing.
Lunch should be satisfying, you should feel lightly full afterwards. If you only eat salads with non-fat dressing, you're eating the equivalent of a fruit juice, without the sugar. Try adding some chick peas or sunflower seeds for protein.
4. Snack on fruits, pretzels, fresh vegetables, or granola between meals. Avoid sugar-rich candies or sweets.
Here's why:
Snacks are good for you. Eating small meals throughout the day gives you a steady supply of energy -- never too much, never too little. Sugar, which is supposed to be an "energy" food, actually slows you down. After an influx of sugar, your blood sugar level rises quickly only to fall lower than where it first began.
5. Drink lots of water, even when you are not thirsty.
Here's why:
Dehydration, which is a lot more common than you might think, causes crankiness and fatigue.
1. Stretch your meals to 20 minutes or longer. Your stomach, mouth and brain are all connected and it takes 20 minutes of chewing before your stomach signals your brain that you are full. To feel full and successfully lose weight on any weight loss program, you need to eat slowly for 20 minutes or longer.
2. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is important to your health, your normal diet and to help lose weight. Water is necessary for the metabolism of your stored fat. Weight loss cannot occur without an active metabolism which requires large quantities of water.
Another way to use water to lose weight is to drink a large glass of ice water just before meals. The cold causes your stomach to shrink slightly which will make you feel full faster.
3. The more positive your self-esteem, the better you feel about yourself, the faster and easier it will be for you to lose weight. When you are self-confident, you are better able to take charge of your life. It also means that after you lose weight, it will stay gone permanently.
4. When you go fat free or low fat, you also cut out much of the taste of the foods you eat. Add the flavor back with herbs and spices. Strong flavors such as vinegar, garlic, chili powder, cayenne, curry powder, rosemary and tarragon can be used to doctor up any food you are eating. For your low fat and fat free diets, experiment with different herbs and spices until you find some you like. Staying on your fat free or low fat diet will be easier and your weight loss will be speeded up.
5. Increase your metabolism by as much as 40% by using hot and spicy foods such as hot peppers of all varieties and mustards. Research shows these foods all increase your metabolism. For double duty, give up fat filled mayonnaise for mustard and add hot peppers to your food for greater flavor and increased metabolism.
6. Negative emotions will also interfere with your weight loss program. It's difficult to stay motivated to lose weight when you feel bad. Overeating often accompanies negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, fear, guilt and anger.
7. To lose weight faster, reduce your intake of caffeine. Caffeine leads to an increase of insulin in your body which retards the burning of your stored fat. This is a simple chemical reaction in your body that you can change. Reduce your caffeine intake by 50% and see what happens. Here is a rough guide to use when looking at the amount of caffeine you currently take in:
Brewed coffee (6 oz. cup) - 100mg;
Instant coffee (6 oz.) - 70mg;
Tea (6 oz.) - 50mg;
Soft drinks (12oz.) - (Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew) - 50mg;
Dark chocolate (1 oz.) - 20mg
Milk chocolate (1 oz.) - 6mg.
8. Increase your intake of fiber rich foods. They will help fill you up faster and will help all the food you eat pass through your digestive system more easily.
9. Exercise is probably the most important key to increasing your metabolism and burning off excess fat. Research shows that you burn more stored fat for energy when you do aerobic exercises on an empty stomach than on a full stomach. Research also shows that you burn more stored fat when you exercise late in the day rather than in the morning. Put together, the best time to exercise to lose weight by burning your stored fat is in the late afternoon/early evening before dinner. Second best is in the morning before breakfast. Our metabolism naturally starts to slow down about 8 hours after we wake up. Thirty minutes of aerobic exercises in the evening, before dinner, will not only burn off stored fat but it increases your metabolism for about two to three more hours just when it was starting to slow down. This produces a significant increase in fat burned off, even after the exercise is over.
10. To lose weight quickly, never skip a meal. Your first meal after waking starts your metabolism. Your metabolism then speeds up for about eight hours and then starts slowing down until you go to sleep when it goes to low until you wake and eat and start the cycle again. Skip breakfast and your metabolism doesn't get started until lunch time. You've just missed three or four hours of fat burning time. When you skip meals during the day, your metabolism also slows down. Weight loss through the burning of stored fat is all about eating enough of the right kinds of foods so you stay full and your metabolism stays as high as possible. Remember, if you feel hungry, your metabolism slows down. Stay full with healthy, nonfattening foods and your metabolism will continue to burn your stored fat as fast as your body will allow.
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