Just Think about it.
The paradox of our time in history is that….
We have taller buildings, But shorter tempers
Wider freeways but narrower view points.
We spend more but have less.
We buy more but enjoy it less
We have bigger houses and smaller families
More conveniences but less time
We have more degrees but less sense
More knowledge but less judgment
More experts but less solution
More medicines but less wellness
We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values
We talk too much, but love too seldom and hate too
We have learned how to make a living, but not a life
We have added years to our life not life to our years
We have all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street To meet the new neighbor
We have conquered outer world but not inner space
We have split the atom but not our prejudice
We have higher incomes but lower morals
We have become long on quantity but short on quality
These are the times of tall men and short character
Steep profits and shallow relationships
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare
More leisure but less fun
More kinds of food but less nutrition
These are days of two incomes but more divorce
Of fancier houses but broken homes
It is a time when there is much in the show window
And nothing in the stock room.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Meat, Sweets Boost Breast Cancer Risk
Among Older, Overweight Women, Excess Meats, Sweets Boost Breast Cancer Risk 60% or More
A diet rich in meats and sweets can boost the risk of breast cancer in older women by 60% or more compared with a diet rich in vegetables, soy, and fresh fish, a new study of Asian women shows.
While there is no breast cancer diet, per se, the researchers did find that certain dietary patterns can boost the risk of developing breast cancer.
Breast cancer rates are typically low among Asian women, but as their breast cancer rates have climbed steadily in recent years, experts have begun to focus on the effect that adopting Western eating habits has on Asians. "There is a hypothesis that a Western diet increases the risk of breast cancer," Marilyn Tseng, PhD, a study co-author, tells WebMD.
So her team carefully evaluated the diets of 1,459 breast cancer patients and 1,556 healthy women in Shanghai to see if they could find a link between diet and breast cancer risk. "It's the first time a Western diet pattern has been linked with breast cancer in Asian women," says Tseng, an associate professor in the population science division at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. The effect held true only for the older women.
Study Details
Tseng and her colleague interviewed Shanghai breast cancer patients and Shanghai residents in depth about their eating habits over the past five years. Women with breast cancer had been diagnosed from August 1996 through March 1998. The women in the comparison group were selected from the Shanghai Resident Registry of permanent residents of urban Shanghai. The average age was 47 in each group.
The researchers uncovered two general dietary patterns. The “meat-sweet” diet included various meats, mainly pork but also poultry, organ meats, beef, lamb, saltwater fish, and shrimp along with candy, desserts, breads, and milk. The "vegetable-soy" diet was filled with various vegetables, soy-based products, and freshwater fish.
"What we found was the meat-sweet diet actually did increase the risk for breast cancer," Tseng tells WebMD. The vegetable-soy diet wasn't found to protect against breast cancer.
"We did not see a significant effect [of dietary patterns] on premenopausal women, we saw it only in postmenopausal women," says Tseng. The study is in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
"A meat-sweet diet raised the risk [of breast cancer] by 60% in postmenopausal women," Tseng says. Among women who were postmenopausal and overweight, with a body mass index of 25 and greater, Tseng's team found a more than twofold increased risk of getting a specific type of breast cancer, called estrogen-receptor positive, if they ate the highest amounts of a meat-sweet diet compared with the vegetable-soy one. Estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer is typically less aggressive than estrogen-receptor negative breast cancer.
The meat-sweet pattern may have increased the risk of breast cancer by increasing obesity, she says.
Other Experts Weigh In
Looking at dietary patterns, not just individual foods, is an area of emerging research for diet and breast cancer links, says Anna Wu, PhD, professor of preventive medicine in the division of epidemiology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
"Studies of dietary patterns and breast cancer started around 2000," she tells WebMD. "Prior to that, researchers tended to focus on individual foods or food groups or macro and micronutrients."
The research is complicated, however, by the fact that different researchers define a Western diet in different ways, she says.
"Using dietary patterns is a reasonable way to investigate links between diet and breast cancer," says another expert, Teresa Fung, ScD, RD, associate professor in the department of nutrition at Simmons College in Boston. Fung researches the nutritional roots of chronic diseases.
"The link between various diet components (for example, nutrients and foods) and breast cancer is quite inconsistent except for alcohol [and being overweight]," she says. "However, the meat-sweet pattern is similar to the Western pattern that is seen in other studies. And that Western pattern has been associated with colon cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease."
Take-Home Points, for Now
More research is needed on the diet-breast cancer link, experts agree. But for now, says Fung, "it would be prudent at the minimum to stay away from a diet heavy in meat, processed grains, sweets, and desserts." Instead, she suggest, adopt a diet abundant in minimally processed plant foods (not necessarily a vegetarian diet), which have been associated with many health benefits."
"I think definitely women in Asia should be cautious about embracing a Western style diet," Tseng says. "In this country, I think women should be careful about foods that fall into that pattern. For all women, weight control is probably in order."
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Meditation Works. Brain Scans Reveal WHY
If you name your emotions, you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation works.
Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation’s purported emotional benefits, because people who meditate often label their negative emotions in an effort to “let them go.”
Psychologists have long believed that people who talk about their feelings have more control over them, but they don't know why it works.
UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman and his colleagues hooked 30 people up to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machines, which scan the brain to reveal which parts are active and inactive at any given moment.
They asked the subjects to look at pictures of male or female faces making emotional expressions. Below some of the photos was a choice of words describing the emotion—such as “angry” or “fearful”—or two possible names for the people in the pictures, one male name and one female name.
When presented with these choices, the subjects were asked to pick the most appropriate emotion or gender-appropriate name to fit the face they saw.
When the participants chose labels for the negative emotions, activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex region—an area associated with thinking in words about emotional experiences—became more active, whereas activity in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotional processing, was calmed.
By contrast, when the subjects picked appropriate names for the faces, the brain scans revealed none of these changes—indicating that only emotional labeling makes a difference.
“In the same way you hit the brake when you’re driving when you see a yellow light, when you put feelings into words, you seem to be hitting the brakes on your emotional responses,” Lieberman said of his study, which is detailed in the current issue of Psychological Science.
In a second experiment, 27 of the same subjects completed questionnaires to determine how “mindful” they are.
Meditation and other “mindfulness” techniques are designed to help people pay more attention to their present emotions, thoughts and sensations without reacting strongly to them. Meditators often acknowledge and name their negative emotions in order to “let them go.”
When the team compared brain scans from subjects who had more mindful dispositions to those from subjects who were less mindful, they found a stark difference—the mindful subjects experienced greater activation in the right ventrolateral prefrontral cortex and a greater calming effect in the amygdala after labeling their emotions.
“These findings may help explain the beneficial health effects of mindfulness meditation, and suggest, for the first time, an underlying reason why mindfulness meditation programs improve mood and health,” said David Creswell, a UCLA psychologist who led the second part of the study, which will be detailed in Psychosomatic Medicine.
Meditation Builds Up The Brain
Meditating does more than just feel good and calm you down, it makes you perform better – and alters the structure of your brain, researchers have found.
People who meditate say the practice restores their energy, and some claim they need less sleep as a result. Many studies have reported that the brain works differently during meditation – brainwave patterns change and neuronal firing patterns synchronise. But whether meditation actually brings any of the restorative benefits of sleep has remained largely unexplored.
So Bruce O’Hara and colleagues at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, US, decided to investigate. They used a well-established “psychomotor vigilance task”, which has long been used to quantify the effects of sleepiness on mental acuity. The test involves staring at an LCD screen and pressing a button as soon as an image pops up. Typically, people take 200 to 300 milliseconds to respond, but sleep-deprived people take much longer, and sometimes miss the stimulus altogether.
Ten volunteers were tested before and after 40 minutes of either sleep, meditation, reading or light conversation, with all subjects trying all conditions. The 40-minute nap was known to improve performance (after an hour or so to recover from grogginess). But what astonished the researchers was that meditation was the only intervention that immediately led to superior performance, despite none of the volunteers being experienced at meditation.
“Every single subject showed improvement,” says O’Hara. The improvement was even more dramatic after a night without sleep. But, he admits: “Why it improves performance, we do not know.” The team is now studying experienced meditators, who spend several hours each day in practice.
Brain builder
What effect meditating has on the structure of the brain has also been a matter of some debate. Now Sara Lazar at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, US, and colleagues have used MRI to compare 15 mediators, with experience ranging from 1 to 30 years, and 15 non-mediators.
They found that meditating actually increases the thickness of the cortex in areas involved in attention and sensory processing, such as the prefrontal cortex and the right anterior insula.
“You are exercising it while you meditate, and it gets bigger,” she says. The finding is in line with studies showing that accomplished musicians, athletes and linguists all have thickening in relevant areas of the cortex. It is further evidence, says Lazar, that yogis “aren’t just sitting there doing nothing".
The growth of the cortex is not due to the growth of new neurons, she points out, but results from wider blood vessels, more supporting structures such as glia and astrocytes, and increased branching and connections.
The new studies were presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, in Washington DC, US.
Source: New Scientist
Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation’s purported emotional benefits, because people who meditate often label their negative emotions in an effort to “let them go.”
Psychologists have long believed that people who talk about their feelings have more control over them, but they don't know why it works.
UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman and his colleagues hooked 30 people up to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machines, which scan the brain to reveal which parts are active and inactive at any given moment.
They asked the subjects to look at pictures of male or female faces making emotional expressions. Below some of the photos was a choice of words describing the emotion—such as “angry” or “fearful”—or two possible names for the people in the pictures, one male name and one female name.
When presented with these choices, the subjects were asked to pick the most appropriate emotion or gender-appropriate name to fit the face they saw.
When the participants chose labels for the negative emotions, activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex region—an area associated with thinking in words about emotional experiences—became more active, whereas activity in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotional processing, was calmed.
By contrast, when the subjects picked appropriate names for the faces, the brain scans revealed none of these changes—indicating that only emotional labeling makes a difference.
“In the same way you hit the brake when you’re driving when you see a yellow light, when you put feelings into words, you seem to be hitting the brakes on your emotional responses,” Lieberman said of his study, which is detailed in the current issue of Psychological Science.
In a second experiment, 27 of the same subjects completed questionnaires to determine how “mindful” they are.
Meditation and other “mindfulness” techniques are designed to help people pay more attention to their present emotions, thoughts and sensations without reacting strongly to them. Meditators often acknowledge and name their negative emotions in order to “let them go.”
When the team compared brain scans from subjects who had more mindful dispositions to those from subjects who were less mindful, they found a stark difference—the mindful subjects experienced greater activation in the right ventrolateral prefrontral cortex and a greater calming effect in the amygdala after labeling their emotions.
“These findings may help explain the beneficial health effects of mindfulness meditation, and suggest, for the first time, an underlying reason why mindfulness meditation programs improve mood and health,” said David Creswell, a UCLA psychologist who led the second part of the study, which will be detailed in Psychosomatic Medicine.
Meditation Builds Up The Brain
Meditating does more than just feel good and calm you down, it makes you perform better – and alters the structure of your brain, researchers have found.
People who meditate say the practice restores their energy, and some claim they need less sleep as a result. Many studies have reported that the brain works differently during meditation – brainwave patterns change and neuronal firing patterns synchronise. But whether meditation actually brings any of the restorative benefits of sleep has remained largely unexplored.
So Bruce O’Hara and colleagues at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, US, decided to investigate. They used a well-established “psychomotor vigilance task”, which has long been used to quantify the effects of sleepiness on mental acuity. The test involves staring at an LCD screen and pressing a button as soon as an image pops up. Typically, people take 200 to 300 milliseconds to respond, but sleep-deprived people take much longer, and sometimes miss the stimulus altogether.
Ten volunteers were tested before and after 40 minutes of either sleep, meditation, reading or light conversation, with all subjects trying all conditions. The 40-minute nap was known to improve performance (after an hour or so to recover from grogginess). But what astonished the researchers was that meditation was the only intervention that immediately led to superior performance, despite none of the volunteers being experienced at meditation.
“Every single subject showed improvement,” says O’Hara. The improvement was even more dramatic after a night without sleep. But, he admits: “Why it improves performance, we do not know.” The team is now studying experienced meditators, who spend several hours each day in practice.
Brain builder
What effect meditating has on the structure of the brain has also been a matter of some debate. Now Sara Lazar at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, US, and colleagues have used MRI to compare 15 mediators, with experience ranging from 1 to 30 years, and 15 non-mediators.
They found that meditating actually increases the thickness of the cortex in areas involved in attention and sensory processing, such as the prefrontal cortex and the right anterior insula.
“You are exercising it while you meditate, and it gets bigger,” she says. The finding is in line with studies showing that accomplished musicians, athletes and linguists all have thickening in relevant areas of the cortex. It is further evidence, says Lazar, that yogis “aren’t just sitting there doing nothing".
The growth of the cortex is not due to the growth of new neurons, she points out, but results from wider blood vessels, more supporting structures such as glia and astrocytes, and increased branching and connections.
The new studies were presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, in Washington DC, US.
Source: New Scientist
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Grandma’s Remedies
Magic of Honey with Cinnamon
The combination of Honey with Cinnamon can do wonders on human body and can heal various common ailments.
ARTHRITIS.
Take one part of honey to two parts of lukewarm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body slowly. Arthritis patients may daily, morning and night take one cup of hot water with two spoons of pure honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, if drunk regularly even chronic arthritis can be healed.
HAIR LOSS
Apply a paste of hot olive oil, one table spoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and keep it for approximately 15 minutes and then wash the hair.
BLADDER INFECTION.
Take 2 table spoon of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water and drink it. It destroys the pathogenic germs of the bladder.
TOOTH ACHE.
Make a paste of 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder and 5 teaspoon of honey and apply in the aching tooth. Do it 3 times a day daily till such time that tooth has stopped aching.
PIMPLES.
3 tablespoon of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and make a paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping at night and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for 2 weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
COLDS
One table spoon of luke warm honey with ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days.
This will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinus.
HEART DISEASES
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread or chappati instead of jam or jelly and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.
IMMUNE SYSTEM
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacterial an viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION.
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on 2 table spoon of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
LONGEVITY
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder when taken regularly arrests the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1 spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink ¼ cup 3 to 4 times a day.
It keeps the skin fresh and soft.
FOOD PLAN - JULY
FOR BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
The main trouble in this disease is breathlessness and is caused by the disorder in respiratory system. There is constriction of the bronchioles, which disturbs the normal ratio of inspiration and expiration. Because of congestion of the blood vessels of the bronchial lining expiration becomes difficult. This disease affects the young , old and even children.. The most disheartening aspect of asthma is that it does not get completely cured through medicines. Where as it has been seen that patients of asthma who regularly practised yoga were cured.
Food Cure
A balanced diet of salad, fresh fruits, vegetables , sprouts and leafy vegetables should be an essential part of an asthmatic's daily meal. They should eat 4 times a day.
Breakfast (7 to 9 a.m.) :
- Some fruit juice
- Fresh fruits
- Handful of germinated gram (sprouts)
- Wheat bread
- Herbal tea is recommended in cases of bronchial and cardiac asthma.
- Green vegetables
Lunch and Dinner ( 12 to 2 p.m. , 6-8 p.m.)
-Salad (slices of cucumber, lettuce, tomato, carrot, beets to be eaten raw) about a cupful mixed with salt, pepper, and lemon juice or salad dressing.
- Soup (if possible)
- Wheat bread or chapattis
- Pulses (except arhar) / Non vegetarians can have fish or liver (meat of any other type should be avoided)
- Green vegetables or saag .
Afternoon refreshment (3-5 p.m.)
- Fresh fruits , cheese, cake , halwa or salted biscuits.
Foods for you
-Honey - very effective for asthmatic patients as it absorbs moisture and has fatal effect on germs.
-Vinegar or Cider Vinegar- heals serious lung infection.
-Grape juice - effectively eliminates excess mucus and phlegm.
-Turmeric (Haldi) - Can be taken with honey or warm milk.
-Sweet yogurt - inhibits production of histamine which produces the symptoms of allergy.
-Peppermint - eliminates hardening mucus.
-Trifula and Long pepper (Pipali) - are also useful.
-Pineapple juice - helps by dissolving mucus.
The combination of Honey with Cinnamon can do wonders on human body and can heal various common ailments.
ARTHRITIS.
Take one part of honey to two parts of lukewarm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body slowly. Arthritis patients may daily, morning and night take one cup of hot water with two spoons of pure honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, if drunk regularly even chronic arthritis can be healed.
HAIR LOSS
Apply a paste of hot olive oil, one table spoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and keep it for approximately 15 minutes and then wash the hair.
BLADDER INFECTION.
Take 2 table spoon of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water and drink it. It destroys the pathogenic germs of the bladder.
TOOTH ACHE.
Make a paste of 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder and 5 teaspoon of honey and apply in the aching tooth. Do it 3 times a day daily till such time that tooth has stopped aching.
PIMPLES.
3 tablespoon of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and make a paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping at night and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for 2 weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
COLDS
One table spoon of luke warm honey with ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days.
This will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinus.
HEART DISEASES
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread or chappati instead of jam or jelly and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.
IMMUNE SYSTEM
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacterial an viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION.
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on 2 table spoon of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
LONGEVITY
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder when taken regularly arrests the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1 spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink ¼ cup 3 to 4 times a day.
It keeps the skin fresh and soft.
FOOD PLAN - JULY
FOR BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
The main trouble in this disease is breathlessness and is caused by the disorder in respiratory system. There is constriction of the bronchioles, which disturbs the normal ratio of inspiration and expiration. Because of congestion of the blood vessels of the bronchial lining expiration becomes difficult. This disease affects the young , old and even children.. The most disheartening aspect of asthma is that it does not get completely cured through medicines. Where as it has been seen that patients of asthma who regularly practised yoga were cured.
Food Cure
A balanced diet of salad, fresh fruits, vegetables , sprouts and leafy vegetables should be an essential part of an asthmatic's daily meal. They should eat 4 times a day.
Breakfast (7 to 9 a.m.) :
- Some fruit juice
- Fresh fruits
- Handful of germinated gram (sprouts)
- Wheat bread
- Herbal tea is recommended in cases of bronchial and cardiac asthma.
- Green vegetables
Lunch and Dinner ( 12 to 2 p.m. , 6-8 p.m.)
-Salad (slices of cucumber, lettuce, tomato, carrot, beets to be eaten raw) about a cupful mixed with salt, pepper, and lemon juice or salad dressing.
- Soup (if possible)
- Wheat bread or chapattis
- Pulses (except arhar) / Non vegetarians can have fish or liver (meat of any other type should be avoided)
- Green vegetables or saag .
Afternoon refreshment (3-5 p.m.)
- Fresh fruits , cheese, cake , halwa or salted biscuits.
Foods for you
-Honey - very effective for asthmatic patients as it absorbs moisture and has fatal effect on germs.
-Vinegar or Cider Vinegar- heals serious lung infection.
-Grape juice - effectively eliminates excess mucus and phlegm.
-Turmeric (Haldi) - Can be taken with honey or warm milk.
-Sweet yogurt - inhibits production of histamine which produces the symptoms of allergy.
-Peppermint - eliminates hardening mucus.
-Trifula and Long pepper (Pipali) - are also useful.
-Pineapple juice - helps by dissolving mucus.
KNOW YOUR HONEY!
The most common of all Bee Products Honey is prized for its ability to heal wounds, treat infections and provide fast energy.
Honey is naturally sweet substance made by concentrating plant nectars. Bee’s traveling to and from a single hive may cover a distance of 40,000 miles and visit over 2 million plants in their quest to locate the finest plant nectars.
Sugar provides us with energy. All carbohydrates must be broken down into glucose (also called blood sugar) before our bodies can absorb them and use them as energy.
Honey contains glucose and Fructose while white sugar contains sucrose. The basic sugars within honey are more easily assimilated into blood stream and thus yield energy more quickly and efficiently than white sugars.
The glycogen in a spoonful of pure honey passes into the blood stream within 10 mts to produce quick energy.
Honey is naturally sweet substance made by concentrating plant nectars. Bee’s traveling to and from a single hive may cover a distance of 40,000 miles and visit over 2 million plants in their quest to locate the finest plant nectars.
Sugar provides us with energy. All carbohydrates must be broken down into glucose (also called blood sugar) before our bodies can absorb them and use them as energy.
Honey contains glucose and Fructose while white sugar contains sucrose. The basic sugars within honey are more easily assimilated into blood stream and thus yield energy more quickly and efficiently than white sugars.
The glycogen in a spoonful of pure honey passes into the blood stream within 10 mts to produce quick energy.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Health Habits That Cut Heart Disease
Eat fruits and vegetables daily
Walk 40 mts daily
Keep BMI (body mass index) out of the obese range
Don't smoke
Practice Oxygenated Breathing
Meditate
Manage Stress
Walk 40 mts daily
Keep BMI (body mass index) out of the obese range
Don't smoke
Practice Oxygenated Breathing
Meditate
Manage Stress
Headed for a Heart Attack?
Be aware of these Symptoms.
Symptoms: Unusual fatigue
As Early Warning: Wake up tired. Difficult to carry out usual activities; gets worse over time.
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: Overwhelming exhaustion—too tired to do anything.
Symptoms: Shortness of breath
As Early Warning: Winded with little exertion. Improves when you stop.
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: Often the first symptom; continues or worsens.
Symptoms: Mood changes
As Early Warning: Fleeting feelings of anxiety for no reason. Goes away.
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: Anxiety occurs along with shortness of breath and doesn't let up.
Symptoms: Digestive changes
As Early Warning: Frequent indigestion.
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: Terrible heartburn, often with nausea and vomiting.
Symptoms: Weakness
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: No strength—like having the flu.
Symptoms: Sleep disturbance
As Early Warning: Trouble falling asleep or staying asleep.
Symptoms: Chest discomfort
As Early Warning: Pressure, pain, burning, or discomfort, like a pulled muscle.
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: Common, usually through chest or back. May or may not be the "Hollywood heart attack": crushing chest pain, pain radiating down arm.
Symptoms: Other pains
As Early Warning: Aching arms and hands; may have numbness or tingling.
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: Discomfort and/or pain in jaw, upper back, shoulders, neck, arms.
Other symptoms
As Early Warning: Headaches and periods of blurry vision
.As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: Cold sweat, pale skin.
Overall
As Early Warning: Symptoms come and go, but may increase in intensity and number as attack nears.
As Sign of Impending Heart Attack: You may have six or more different symptoms that become more intense and pile on top of one another.
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