Heart Health Webinar

My employer will have webinars on different topics to help employees. This is on. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

List of Heart health facts:

More sudden cardiac arrests happen outside of the hospital than within. That is why it is Crucial to learn CPR, you can help save a life.
Replace sugar completely. enhanced with spices instead of sugar. try giner, allspice, cinnamon, or nutmeg.
The average American consumes the equivalent of 39 pounds of sugar each year from soda or other sweetened beverages.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Every 1 of 4 deaths is due to heart disease.
The best way to reduce sodium is to avoid the prepackaged, processed, and prepared foods.
Cutting back on sodium by 1000 meg a day can improve blood pressure and heart health.
Switch out sugar with unsweetened applesauce in recipes by using equal amounts.. .
A typical 12-ounce can of regular soda has 130 calories and 8 teaspoons of sugar.
80% of strokes can be prevented through healthy lifestyle changes and work with health care practitioners to control stroke risk factors. quite smoke. Move more. Keep blood pressure under control. Eat a healthy diet.
Just 30 min of exercise a day will reduce our risk of heart disease.
Regular physical activity also relieves tension, anxiety, depression, and anger.
Most Americans consume nearly 20 teaspoons of added sugar each day. That’s more than triple the recommended daily limit for women and double for men.
AED is an Automated External Defibrillator. it is used to help those who experience sudden cardiac arrest. It is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use medical device that can analyze the heart’s r rhythm and, if necessary, deliver an electrical shock, or defibrillation, to help the heart re-establish an effective rhythm.
Every hour you walk in your life expectancy increases by two hours.
Cardiovascular disease is heart and stroke is the number one of death of Americans
By 2035 45% of people will have Cardiovascular disease.

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We can control our weight, blood pressure or cloistral
We need to know what BMI is.
Obesity at the waste line is a direct impact on heart attacks.
One risk factor: is smoking. the habit has decreased.
Poor dental health or gum disease is a contributor to heart disease.

Suggestions:

Recommend you have have 150 min of moderate exercise or 75 min per week of vigorous activity.
Moderate to high-intensity muscle straightening exercises 2 days per week.
Spend less time sitting – if you do a lot of computer/desk work. take frequent breaks and move around.
Take the stairs over the elevator.
Kids need to be more active 6and should get exercise an hour a day.
Get your checkups.
Stress tests are not useful in detecting this disease.
Family history is a contributor to disease.

Signs:

Reactions during test training.
Shortness of breath
Jaw pain
Any pain that travels down the left arms

What to do:

Make time for yourself
Listen to your body
Get your annual physical.
Know your numbers
Prevention-modify your risk factors
Eat healthy
Drink a lot of water.

Questions:

How to increase HDL? fish oil, weight lifting, decrease your central obesity (belly)

Healthy BMI: is influenced on height and weight 21 to 23 is healthy for a woman. apps online to give bmi. (maybe google them)

What is the correlation between meat, dairy, and egg consumption to heart disease?

Low fat and low cholesterol. not a lot of red meat. Eat white meat.

Avoid fried foods, milk and creamers.

Eat eggs only about twice a week.

What type of exercise is recommended for older people?

Type of exercise needs to be different.
Do less cardio and more weight lifting.

Best heart rate for women?

60 to 80 beats limit is the best heart rate.

How to lower LDL

Cholesterol needs to be under a 70.
Besides medications, statins exercise, and limiting the amount of dairy and saturated fat you are eating can ldl cholesterol.
Recommend 120/70-80 blood pressure.

Inflammation in relation to heart disease?

We like the whole class of statins.

Do vitamins help the heart, blood flow

Recommend a well-balanced diet.
A multivitamin or once-a-supplement day vitamins.

What is the relationship between heart and vascular dementia

It has to do with a lot of blood pressure.
Chronic high blood pressure that’s not well controlled. They call them little infarks or mini-strokes. you have a bunch of min strokes from high blood pressure that an create soemething called vascular dementia. control the blood pressure is really key here.

What causes weight for older people?