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03/10/2018

15 Ways to Keep Your Heart Healthy and Happy

Ways to Keep Heart HealthyHave you been kind to your heart and given it all the love and attention it deserves; or has it been ignored?
September 29 is World Heart Day and it would be the right time to take a moment to check how your heart is doing and feeling!

Have you been kind to it and given it all the love and attention it deserves; or has your heart been ignored?

Your heart is the center of your whole system and here’s what you can do to keep it happy and healthy:

Strengthen the muscles of your heart by getting regular exercise

As with other muscles, your heart muscles become strong when they are made to contract and release repeatedly at a fast pace.

This keeps your heart beating nicely. It also burns away any accumulated fat that could deposit in your arteries that leads to heart attacks. Keep the pipe lines clean!

Pick one activity from here, and do it six days a week for 30 minutes:

Walk
Yoga
Jog
Run
Cycle
Swim
Aerobics/zumba/kick boxing
Active sport (football, tennis, badminton; etc)
Eat heart healthy foods like avocado, oatmeal, salmon, olive oil, nuts, berries, pure chocolate (100 per cent), legumes and spinach. Make one of these a part of every meal.

Cut out the ugly artery clogging fried foods, oily foods, processed foods and artificial sugars.

Have a cup of coffee/green tea. Both have anti-ageing properties.

Have a glass of red wine (1 glass per day max). More anti-ageing!

Consume high fiber diet.

Get Your 5 A Day
Eat at least five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables a day. They’re a good source of fibre, vitamins and minerals. There are lots of tasty ways to get your 5 A DAY, like adding chopped fruit to cereal or including vegetables in your pasta sauces and curries.

Cut Down On Salt
To maintain healthy blood pressure, avoid using salt at the table and try adding less to your cooking. Once you get used to the taste of food without added salt, you can cut it out completely.

Give up Smoking
If You ‘re a smoker, quit. It’s the single best thing you can do for your heart health.
Smoking is one of the main causes of coronary heart disease. A year after giving up, your risk of a heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.

Read the food label
When shopping, it’s a good idea to look at the label on food and drink packaging to see how many calories and how much fat, salt and sugar the product contains. Understanding what is in food and how it fits in with the rest of your diet will help you make healthier choices.

Meditate. This reduces stress levels and makes the heart pump normally. Even 10 minutes a day can be of much good.

Do one enjoyable activity every day. A crossword; phone your best friend; read a book; watch a comedy show; anything that is happy and positive.

Get your annual health check-up.

Plan a daily routine that makes you happy and stick to it. This lowers stress caused by disarray.

Disconnect! Take time off from your phone, computer, TV and mental hang ups.

Relax your body and mind. Light candles, play happy music, spray your house with scents. Your environment affects your mood.

(This article was authored by Ms. Anuja Atreya and first appeared on https://www.practo.com/healthfeed/15-ways-to-keep-your-heart-healthy-and-happy-24075/post)|

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29/11/2012

(itni mamta nadiyon ko bhi jahaan mata keh ke bulaate hain..)

POLLUTED AND CHOKED, YET SACRED FLOWS THE YAMUNA
A Hindu devotee offers prayers after a dip in the holy river Yamuna, surrounded by industrial effluent, during Karthik Purnima in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012.
Karthik Purnima is celebrated on the Purnima (full moon day of the Hindu calendar month) of Karthik and considered very auspicious by Hindus. Photo credit : Associated press (AP)

28/11/2012

Facebook Tip: How to see all posts from your favorite Pages in one place!

1) Go to the page you want to follow.
2) Click on the gear icon on the right side of the Page, next to the "Like" button.
3) Click on "ADD TO INTEREST LISTS"
4) Select an existing Interest List or create a new one.

Now go to your news feed. In the left navigation column, you'll see the lists you created under "INTERESTS."

I find Interest lists a handy way to view all posts from certain Pages in one place. For example, you can create a list to follow interesting Pages in your niche. By the way, you can add Pages to Interest Lists without liking them.

How are you using Interest Lists?

- Margit

26/11/2012

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26/11/2012

"Come on ladies, come on ladies, have-a, have-a look, one pound fish. Very very good, very very cheap, one pound fish," fish seller Muhammad Shahid Nazir can be seen singing at an east London market to attract customers. Pakistani fish seller in UK the next 'Gangnam' star?

26/11/2012

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24/11/2012

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions - and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else - the small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn.

Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.' The beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of beers with a friend.

- Aaron

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22/11/2012

Even Walruses blush! This one couldn't believe his eyes when his brought him his favourite fish dish. His name is Nikolai, weighs 1,200 kgs and loves his fish cake. He stayed in the zoo in Harderwijk, Netherlands.
Courtesy: Unbelievable Facts