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Are You planning to follow the diet then it is necessary that you time it rightly. You should get up before 8:00 am. This diet Programme is split into 4 weeks and the diet remains Changing every week. To keep track of your progress while following the diet, it is necessary that you weigh yourself before starting the diet plan and write it in your diet book. You need to follow certain things when you are on this diet. They are

· Avoid using salt after 7:30 pm

· Avoid all aerated drinks including diet sodas

· Avoid eating mango and banana

· Restrict the use of rice and potato

· Avoid artificial and sweetened juices

· Half an hour of aerobic exercise daily like jogging, 500 skipping per day which can be divided into 5 sets of 100 each

· 20 minutes of breathing exercise daily

Week 1

8:00 am- After you wake up in the morning, drink 2 glasses of fenugreek seeds (Methi seeds) water. Soak 1 tsp of fenugreek seeds in 2 glasses of water overnight. Strain this in the morning and drink the water. This will help to remove water retention in the body and bloating. You should also have 5 almonds with skin soaked overnight in water and have just one peppercorn.
9:00 am- This is your breakfast time. You can have 1 toast of brown bread with low fat butter or hung curd or with salads or chutneys.
11:30 am- This is your snack time. Eat any one fruit according to your wish but avoid mango and banana as they are rich in sugar and carbohydrates.
1.30 pm- Before you start eating your meal, consume a small plate of salad. You can include carrots, cucumber, lettuce, avocado, boiled cauliflower and beans in your salad. Salads will help to reduce the craving for food. The fibers present the salad vegetables make your stomach feel full and you will not overeat. After the salad you can eat one chapatti made of whole wheat flour along with a small bowl of cooked dal.
4.30 pm- You can have one cup of low fat milk or tea with 2 biscuits or one small cup boiled chickpea or channa or air popped popcorns. It is better to go for biscuits without much sugar and fat.
7:30 pm- This is your dinner time. Start your dinner also with a small plate of salad. You can have one whole wheat chappati with one cup of vegetables. Avoid eating pulses like rajma or channa at night.
8:30 pm- You can again have any one fruit of your choice.
Weigh yourself again at the end of the first week. You will see that you have lost weight between 1-2 kg. The weight loss will be maximum in the first week as the body loses its water weight and bloating is reduced.

Week 2

8:00 am- Take 2 glasses of tulsi leaf water. Soak tulsi leaves in 2 glasses of water overnight and consume the water next morning. You can eat 5 soaked almonds with skin and one peppercorn.
9:00 am- It is breakfast time and you can eat one brown bread toast with low fat butter or hung curd or salad and chutney.
11:30 am- Eat any low carb fruit as a snack between your breakfast and lunch.
1:30 pm – Start your lunch with one plate of salad. Your meal for this week will be sandwich with paneer filling or egg white filling according to your wish.
4:30 pm- You can have one cup of low fat milk or tea with 2 biscuits.
7:30 pm- Start your dinner with one plate of salad. You can have one whole wheat flour chapatti with one cup of vegetables. You can take rajma or channa this week instead of vegetables.
8:30 pm- Eat one fruit of your choice
At the end of the second week again weigh yourself to make sure that you are losing weight through the diet plan.

Week 3

8:00 am- Drink 2 glasses of methi seeds water along with 5 soaked almonds and one peppercorn.
9:00 am – Take one glass low fat milk and a fruit for your breakfast.
11.30 am- One fruit of your wish as a snack in between meals.
1:30 pm- Eat one chappati with one small cup of vegetables
4:30 pm- You can have one cup of milk or tea with two biscuits or one bowl of boiled channa or one bowl of popcorn.
7:30 pm- You can have 3 pieces of steamed or roasted chicken or fish and salads if you are a non-vegetarian. If you are a vegetarian you can have one bowl of dal along with one cup of curd and salad or you can have one bowl of vegetables along with one bowl of curd and salad.
8:30 pm - Any one fruit

Again at the end of week three weigh yourself and find out how many kilos you have reduced.

Week 4

8:00 am- Start your day with 2 glasses of methi water and five soaked almonds and one peppercorn.

9:00 am- You can take one glass of cold coffee and brown bread and low fat butter toast.

11:30 am- Eat one fruit of your choice.
1:30 pm- You have more options for your lunch this week. You can try them alternatively
1.   Take one bowl of sprouts and one bowl of fruits
2.   Eat two bowls of vegetables or salads
3.   Take one cup of dal and one bread toast
4.   One bowl of vegetables and bread toast
5.   One bowl of vegetable gravy and quarter plate rice.
4:30 pm- Drink 1 cup of low fat milk or tea with 2 biscuits or popcorn or boiled chickpeas.
7:30 pm - Eat one chapatti and one bowl of vegetable
8:30 pm- One fruit of your choice

At the end of the fourth week, you will find that you have lost 3-6 kgs of weight. The weight loss will not be similar in all people but there will be definitely weight loss if you follow this diet chart. You can enjoy social life even when you are on this diet plan. The only thing is that you select your foods sensibly and control your portion size. Go for foods with whole grain rather than going for noodles or pasta. Avoid fried starters and opt for stir fried vegetables. Go for tandoor items and avoid oily or high fat foods. These tips will help you to stay fit.. Once you achieve weight loss try to maintain the weight by following this diet chart whenever you feel necessary.

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Heart disease treatments vary. You may need lifestyle changes, medications, surgery or other medical procedures as part of your treatment.

Cardiovascular disease treatments
The goal in treating diseases of your arteries (cardiovascular disease) is often to open narrowed arteries that cause your symptoms. Depending on how severe the blockages in your arteries are, treatment may include:

Lifestyle changes. Whether your heart disease is mild or severe, it's likely your doctor will recommend lifestyle changes as part of your treatment. Lifestyle changes include eating a low-fat and low-sodium diet, getting at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise on most days of the week, quitting smoking, and limiting how much alcohol you drink.
Medications. If lifestyle changes alone aren't enough, your doctor may prescribe medications to control your heart disease. These could include medications to lower your blood pressure, such as diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or beta blockers; blood thinning medications, such as daily aspirin therapy; or cholesterol-lowering medications, such as statins or fibrates.
Medical procedures or surgery. If medications aren't enough, it's possible your doctor will recommend specific procedures or surgery to clear the blockages in your heart. A common procedure is coronary angioplasty, which is performed by placing a catheter in an artery in your arm or groin and threading a small balloon to your blocked artery and inflating it to reopen the artery. A small metal coil called a stent is often placed in the artery during angioplasty. The stent helps keep the artery open.
Sometimes a more invasive procedure, coronary artery bypass surgery, is necessary. In this procedure, a vein from another part of your body — usually your leg — is used to bypass the blocked section of the artery.

Heart arrhythmia treatments

Depending on the seriousness of your condition, your doctor may simply recommend maneuvers or medications to correct your irregular heartbeat. It's also possible you'll need a medical device or surgery if your condition is more serious.

Vagal maneuvers. You may be able to stop some heart arrhythmias by using particular maneuvers, which include holding your breath and straining, dunking your face in ice water, or coughing. Your doctor may be able to recommend other maneuvers to slow a fast heartbeat. These maneuvers affect the nervous system that controls your heartbeat (vagal nerves), often causing your heart rate to slow. Don't attempt any maneuvers without talking to your doctor first.
Medications. People who have a rapid heartbeat may respond well to anti-arrhythmic medications. Though they don't cure the problem, they can reduce episodes of your heart beating rapidly or slow down the heart when an episode occurs. It's important to take any anti-arrhythmic medication exactly as directed by your doctor in order to avoid complications.
Medical procedures. Two common procedures to treat heart arrhythmias are cardioversion and ablation. In cardioversion, an electrical shock is used to reset your heart to its regular rhythm. Usually this is done with paddles placed on the chest that can deliver an electrical shock in a monitored setting. You're given medication to sedate you during the procedure, so there's no pain. In ablation, one or more catheters are threaded through your blood vessels to your inner heart. They're positioned on areas of your heart identified by your doctor as causing your arrhythmia. Electrodes at the catheter tips destroy (ablate) a small spot of heart tissue and create an electrical block along the pathway that's causing your arrhythmia.
Pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). In some cases, your doctor may recommend having a pacemaker or ICD implanted to regulate your heartbeat. Pacemakers emit electrical impulses to quicken your heartbeat if it becomes too slow, and ICDs can correct a rapid or chaotic heartbeat using a similar type of electrical impulse as is used in cardioversion. The surgery to implant each device is relatively minor and usually requires only a few days of recovery.
Surgery. For severe heart arrhythmias, or for those with an underlying cause such as a heart defect, surgery may be an option. Because the surgeries to correct heart arrhythmias are open-heart procedures that sometimes require several months for recovery, surgery is often a last-resort treatment option.

Heart defect treatments

Some heart defects are minor and don't require treatment, while others may require regular checkups, medications or even surgery. Depending on what heart defect you have and how severe it is, your treatment could include:

Medications. Some mild congenital heart defects, especially those found later in childhood or adulthood, can be treated with medications that help the heart work more efficiently.
Special procedures using catheters. Some people now have their congenital heart defects repaired using catheterization techniques, which allow the repair to be done without surgically opening the chest and heart. In procedures that can be done using catheterization, the doctor inserts a thin tube (catheter) into a leg vein and guides it to the heart with the help of X-ray images. Once the catheter is positioned at the site of the defect, tiny tools are threaded through the catheter to the heart to repair the defect.
Open-heart surgery. In some cases, your doctor may perform open-heart surgery to try to repair your heart defect. These surgeries are major medical procedures and sometimes require a long recovery time. It's possible you'll need multiple surgeries over several years to treat the defect.
Heart transplant. If a serious heart defect can't be repaired, a heart transplant may be an option.

Cardiomyopathy treatments

Treatment for cardiomyopathy varies, depending on what type of cardiomyopathy you have and how serious it is. Treatments can include:

Medications. Your doctor may prescribe medications that can improve your heart's pumping ability, such as ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers. Beta blockers, which make your heart beat more slowly and less forcefully, help reduce the strain.
Medical devices. If you have dilated cardiomyopathy, treatment may include a special pacemaker that coordinates the contractions between the left and right ventricles of your heart, improving the heart's pumping ability. If you're at risk of serious arrhythmias, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) may be an option. ICDs are small devices implanted in your chest to continuously monitor your heart rhythm and deliver electrical shocks when needed to control abnormal, rapid heartbeats. The devices can also work as pacemakers.
Heart transplant. If you have severe cardiomyopathy and medications can't control your symptoms, a heart transplant may be necessary.

Heart infection treatments

The first treatment for heart infections such as pericarditis, endocarditis or myocarditis is often medications, which may include:

Antibiotics. If your condition is caused by bacteria, your doctor will prescribe antibiotics. Antibiotics are given by an intravenous (IV) line for two to six weeks, depending on how severe the infection is.
Medications to regulate your heartbeat. If the infection has affected your heartbeat, your doctor may prescribe medications such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or beta blockers to help normalize your heartbeat.

If your heart infection is severe and damages your heart, you may need surgery to repair the damaged portion of your heart.

Valvular heart disease treatments

Although treatments for valvular heart disease can vary depending on what valve is affected and how severe your condition is, treatment options generally include:

Medications. It's possible your valvular heart disease, if mild, can be managed with medications. Commonly prescribed medications for valvular heart disease include medications to open your blood vessels (vasodilators), medications to lower your cholesterol (statins), medications that reduce water retention (diuretics) and blood-thinning medications (anticoagulants).

Balloon valvuloplasty. This procedure is sometimes used as a treatment for valve stenosis. During this procedure, your doctor threads a small tube through a vein in your leg and up to your heart. An uninflated balloon is placed through the opening of the narrowed pulmonary valve. Your doctor then inflates the balloon, opening up the narrowed pulmonary valve and increasing the area available for blood flow.

Valve repair or replacement. If your condition is severe, you may need surgery to correct it. Your doctor may be able to repair the valve. If the valve can't be repaired, it may be replaced with a valve that's made of synthetic materials.

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Farting or Flatulence is a big problem for everyone, the one who farts and the ones who stay close to him or her at the time of farting. Every one of us has faced this situation in our lives when we had farted and created an embarrassing situation for everyone around. Excessive farting can be a big problem for anyone of us, affecting our working lives, social time and even personal relationships. There is no doubt that people don’t like being around with any person that farts too much. Farting can be very very unpleasant, especially when the fart has a sound and a very bad odour.
Let us find some easy ways to control or stop farting. But before that, we should also know what exactly is flatulence, what causes farts, why farts smell bad, and farting problems.

Flatulence or Fart : What exactly it is?

When we eat food, our food goes into the stomach through the food pipe and mouth. The stomach breaks down the food. It then moves to the small intestine, which further breaks down the food. Complete digestion takes place in the small intestine. Whatever is left, the unbroken or undigested food particles move into the large intestine and then moves out of the body as liquid or solid waste through our anus. Here, in this entire digestive process, flatulence or fart is the gas that is formed when the solid waste is separated in the large intestine. Certain food particles that break down create gas as a byproduct, which after a certain point of time expels out from the body as farts.

What Causes Farts?

Some of the causes of farts are as follows:

Build of gas after eating : There are certain foods which might negatively act with your intestinal bacteria. The result is a buildup of gas, which can only escape through anus. Most of these food items are spices, cabbage, potatoes, bread, beans, meat and dairy products.
Intolerant to lactose : This is for those people who are intolerant to lactose. The lactose ferments in your stomach and cause the gas to build up.
Bacteria in colon : When there is too much bacteria in your colon, the bacteria breaks down the food and this leads to intestinal gas to build up.
Swallowing air : This is possible when you chew gums, or drink carbonated fluids a lot.
Smoking : Smoking is another cause of farting. You take in more air into your body when you smoke. The excess inhaled air gets trapped in your esophagus or stomach. When too much gas builds up in your intestines, it comes out through farting.
Medicines intake : When you consume certain medicines on a regular basis, this can also cause fart because of bacterial overgrowth.
Poor digestive system : Doctors have indicated that people who suffer from poor digestive system or people who do not eat healthy diet tend to suffer from the problem of farts.

Why Farts Smell Bad?

All farts do not smell bad. Usually flatulence is made of odorless gases like nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane. Many times when you fart, there won’t be any smell as your body expels odorless gases.
However, in certain cases, your farts can be very very smelly. Why? Flatulence takes place when there is formation of gases, like carbon dioxide and nitrogen in the stomach, which lead to a swelling and bloating in the abdominal area and these are then eliminated from the body. But when your fart gets mixed up with other gases in the stomach like as hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans and with certain pungent substances like sulfur, indole and skatole, the farts expelled from the body emit a very bad smell. Usually smelly farts are expelled when we consume foods that contain a lot of sulfur like eggs, meat, cheese and vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage.

Farting problem : Do we need to worry?

Farting problem is a common problem, faced by many and there is nothing to worry about it much. It is a normal human condition that can be prevented or controlled. But in case of excessive smelly farting with additional symptoms, then it is necessary to consult a doctor. Some troublesome symptoms of farting, which require proper medication are as follows:

Flatulence that occurs very frequently, often involuntarily
A lot of wind is released when flatulence occurs
Consistently of foul-smell
Cramps in and within the abdomen
Bloated and knotted sensation in the abdomen

How to Control Your Farts ?

Now that we have got to know what causes farts, let us also find out how we can control our farts. Remember one thing, we cannot stop farting but we can prevent it.

Avoid Consuming Too Many Sugars: You should reduce the intake of sugar or avoid taking it as sugar breaks down in your gut more quickly, which means more gas is release when the food is digested. This also includes fructose, lactose, and sorbitol.
Reduce Carbonation: Consuming carbonated drinks, soda, beer and others will cause your intestines to be filled with more air than they should be. If you can reduce carbonated beverages, you will find your farting problem greatly reduced.
Reduce intake of starches: Of all types of grains, Rice is one of the better starches which is recommended to be eaten if you have gas problems. Rice grain is very easy to digest. Other grains like wheat, potato, noodles are very hard on your intestines. So it is better to avoid taking starch when you have farting problem as starches cause the release of intestinal gas.
Quit Chewing Gum and Smoking: When you chew gum, you swallow a lot of air, which cause farts. Similarly, when you smoke, you consume more air. So if you have farting problem, then give up smoking and chewing gum if you want to get rid of the problem.
Improve your digestion: Maintain a healthy balance diet, with the right amounts of proteins, vitamins, calcium, minerals other nutrients. This will definitely lead to proper digestion of food and help you to reduce the farting problem.

Home Remedies to Stop Farting

•   Cook your vegetables thoroughly. The digestive system finds it difficult to break down raw, uncooked food.
•   Begin your day with fruits and some milk to maintain the alkalinity in the stomach.
•   Eating meals at proper mealtimes, maintaining a regular interval, is helpful.
•   Herbal tea consumption is also good. You can prepare a tea with equal parts of peppermint, chamomile and balm. Add a teaspoon of this herbal mixture to half a cup of boiling water. This preparation should be consumed in mouthful doses.
•   Increase your intake of water. The more your drink, the less you fart. Drinking water flushes out the odor-causing toxins from the body.
•   Drink warm water with lime juice before every meal. This can reduce gas problems.
•   Your bowl movements should be regular. Controlling or delaying a bowel movement is bad.
•   Keep calm and stress free. Tension can cause you to swallow air
•   Exercise regularly

How to stop farting in your sleep?

You can try these easy solutions if you have the problem of farting while sleeping.
•   Wear something tight while sleeping: If you wear tight clothes, it will make less noise when you fart.
•   Keep a pillow between your legs. The passing air cannot come out freely.
•   Don’t drink carbonated drinks before bed.
•   Lay on your side or back. Avoid lying on your stomach. Because if you do so, you press your stomach more and your butt is up in the air.

Some Foods that Cause Farting

As a matter of fact, we cannot advise you to stop taking these but yes, you can reduce their consumption if you really want to get rid of your farting problem.
•   Vegetables : Artichokes, asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumbers, broccoli, brussels sprouts, onions, peas, radishes, green peppers
•   Fruits : Apricots, peaches, pears, bananas, melons, prunes, and raw apples
•   Eggs
•   Milk and other dairy products
•   Fried foods

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What Causes Heart Disease

When you are born, your arteries are clean, open and elastic.

Then something happens that causes damage to your blood vessel walls, which exposes the underlying connective tissue and the collagen.

That damage could be caused by many factors, such as the wrong type of diet, high blood pressure, smoking and lack of antioxidants.

When the platelets in the blood come into contact with the collagen, they trigger a natural repair mechanism that starts to form clots.

The immune cells that rush in to repair the damage do so as part of an inflammatory process that actually damages blood vessels further, thickens the blood and contributes to the formation of blood clots.

This process causes a proliferation of endothelial cells lining the arteries, and fatty streaks appear.

These are formed by oxidized cholesterol, immune cell debris and calcium salts.

Gradually these streaks are transformed into plaque, or atheroma - fatty scar tissue, which narrows the artery and reduces elasticity, eventually reducing blood flow through the vessel.

This process is known as atherosclerosis and is what causes heart disease to develop.

If the clot, or thrombus, becomes large enough, it can block off blood flow, suffocating large patches of cardiac muscle, causing what we know as heart attack, or myocardial infarction.

The severity of the heart attack depends on how reduced the blood flow is.

In acute myocardial infarction, the supply of oxygen is so severely reduced that the region of the heart muscle may die (necrosis) within an hour or so and, as a result, the activity of the whole heart may be severely threatened.

Pains in the chest that come on during exercise, over-eating and stress are early warning signs that the blood supply to the arteries of the heart is restricted, and are known as angina pectoris.

The clot or thrombus may also sometimes break away from its anchor point and form a mobile embolus (thromboembolism).

A freely moving embolus may partially or completely plug a smaller vessel as it flows downstream and can result in a gradual or sudden blockage of any blood vessel: if it's in the heart, it's called heart attack, if it's in the lungs it's called pulmonary embolism and if it's in the brain it's called a stroke - all potentially life-threatening events.

So what causes heart disease is also the cause of other serious cardiovascular problems.