Thanks everyone for the replies. I will pass all this along to hubby. Thanks for the book suggestion. We really do not know a whole lot about his condition so we've been doing searches online to find out exactly what is up.
I find it interesting that you had a heart attack several times and didn't know it? I wonder if that has happened with me and hubby. Every now and again we get a pinching pain in our chest but it goes away quickly.[/quote ]
Should have saw the expression my wife and myself gave them. We were like... huh... a heart attack... SEVERAL HEART ATTACKS! I'm JUST 38 HERE?!?!? Aren't know you supposed to know when they hit? She had explained to us that many times it might seem like indigestion or heart burn. You get a little pain but it goes away so you dismith it.
Yeah that book will help you a lot. If you are concerned wtih your heart you can ask your doctor for something called a stress test. You dont even have to do anything. I just lied there and they gave me a shot that put stress on my heart for a certain time frame while they monitored it. Was a piece of cake. I have had EKGs in the past, but nothing showed a concern. This is how it was explained to me.... make any sense to anyone.... my EKG did not show anything out of the ordinary till the coroanary desease was significant. It created a different timing that got someone's attention. From what they tell me my heart was always weak. I just did not know about it. What I think is that there was a lot of small signs to tell a doctor there was a problem. A lot of small signs that unless you knew enough to add up all the signs did not amount to much (this make sense?).
So if you or your DH have had signs, I suggest you follow up on them really. Heart disease is a silent disease. The more you read the more you find that many people who recover or made it through heart disease did so because of another problem. Like me. I found out about my heart disease, but not from heart disease at all.. as a matter a fact I was told that it was about to kill me. I found out about it through a tumor that is on my pituitary gland. I was abot to get it removed and the doctors discovered all this about my heart. They stoped the tumor operation and gave me a heart operation instead. So I can literally thank G-D I had a tumor... and I'll thank him more when he helps me get rid of it on the 15th... (can't wait).
About red meat..... grahamkerr is right. Less is better here. This is going to take an adjustment but open your hand, palm facing you. The area of your palm, just before you thumb and fingers start is the portion you want. That is the meat portion that should be on the plate (and it don't look like much when you sit there looking at it on the plate). Surronded by rice, potatoe, pasta or vegies. I have been doing things like... start with a salad... a big one
Then start eating the "main" meal. Or a healthy soup. You are basically changing the focus of your meal from the standard "Meat" focused American meal to a Complex Charbohydrate focused meal. "Don't eat your heart out" suggests to not do everything at once. Your resent it and go back to eating the way you ate before. Start slowly. If you are eating beef 5 days a week drop it to 2 that kinda thing. Do you guys like Etnic food? Many etnic food focus on the foods we should be having.
Another thing I have been seeing is the amount of milk I drink has been adding fat to my day (usually drink about 3 to 4 servings in a day). I usually had drank 2%, but switched to 1% a few weeks ago. That brought me down to 2 1/2 G of fat per serving (if I had drank 4 servings that would be 10 G of fat! Just for milk). Now I am drinking 1/2%, which is good! I went from 2 1/2 G of fat to 1 G of fat per serving (or 4 G of fat for the day... I gained 6). In my fat budget I have 40 G of fat I can eat during the day. Now I can eat more
, 6 Gs more actually.
