Antioxidants are natural compounds present in foods as vitamins, minerals and other substances. It is believed that they help prevent disease by fighting substances called free radicals are produced when your body uses oxygen, for example, when breathing or exposed to substances such as cigarette smoke. In the absence of adequate amounts of antioxidants, free radicals are spread throughout the body and damage cells. This cell damage leads to the development of cardio-vascular system.

 Foods rich in antioxidants provide many positive effects. Even if the supplements are not always provide an additional protective effect, the consumption of foods rich in antioxidants (such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains), clearly associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. Foods high in antioxidants may also contain substances such as flavonoids and lycopene, which provide additional protection, which cannot be achieved with standard oral vitamin supplements.

However, if we talk about vitamin E, the results showed that vitamin E had no benefit in reducing mortality and reducing the risk of death due to cardio-vascular system, or stroke and is not recommended for the prevention of diseases of the cardiovascular system. Use of beta-carotene should be avoided. Studies have shown that it is not much, but significantly increases the mortality from all causes, and slightly increases cardiovascular mortality.

 It is now believed that a decrease in your risk factors and management has a greater effect on reducing the risk of heart disease, than the use of vitamins or food supplements. To reduce your risk factors are needed: stopping smoking and the use of products containing tobacco, control of the doctor of your lipid profile, eating foods low in saturated fat, trans fat (partially hydrogenated fats), cholesterol, sodium and refined sugar: try to have a foods high in fiber and nutrients, regular physical exercise, stress management, limiting alcohol consumption, controlling high blood pressure and diabetes, regular visits to the doctor.

In bradycardia the heart is working too slowly in pace. For most people, the heart rate of between 60 to 100 beats per minute at rest is considered the norm. Heart rate less than 60 beats per minute may be a sign of bradycardia.

Bradycardia may be due to the following factors: age-related changes in heart, disease destroying the electrical system of the heart such as coronary artery disease, stroke and infectious diseases such as endocarditis and myocarditis, conditions that slow the heart electrical impulse, for example, poor thyroid function (hypothyroidism) or an imbalance of electrolytes, due to the increased amount of potassium in the blood, the effects of certain drugs used for heart disease or high blood pressure.

Due to extremely slow heart rate you may experience the following states: dizziness, shortness of breath, it becomes harder to do the exercises, fatigue, chest pain or a feeling tremors of the heart (palpitations), confusion, impairment of concentration, fainting due to low blood pressure.

You can get your heart rate by checking the pulse. If your heart rate is too slow, or irregular, contact your doctor.

The method of treatment of bradycardia depends on the reasons underlying the disease. It also takes into account the symptoms. If no symptoms, treatment is usually not granted. If a violation of the cardiac electrical system causes an excessive decrease in heart rate, you may need a pacemaker. Pacemaker – a device that is implanted under the skin, which helps regulate the heart rhythm. Many people aged over 65 years, with bradycardia in need of such a device.

If a slow heart rate caused by other problems such as hypothyroidism or an electrolyte imbalance, eliminating this problem may help cure bradycardia. If a slow heart rate is a consequence of taking the drug, your doctor may recommend reducing the dose and prescribe another drug. If discontinuation of the drug is not possible, you may need a pacemaker.

The aim of treat bradycardia is to increase heart rate to the level necessary for adequate blood supply to your body. Do not cured in time bradycardia can lead to serious consequences, such as fainting and injuries from fainting, hysteria, and also to the death.                                       Bradycardia is usually a consequence of other heart ailments, so the therapeutic and preventive measures to strengthen the heart will improve your overall health. You can take the following steps: controlling cholesterol, low-calorie food intake, regular exercise, not smoking, limited alcohol consumption, medications as prescribed, regular checkups to monitor the treatment process.

Hypertensive heart disease is the number 1 cause of deaths caused by hypertension, and is actually a group of diseases such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, left ventricular hypertrophy (excessive thickening of the heart muscle).

?In heart failure the blood less effectively passes through the heart and throughout the body, and the pressure in the heart increases. As a result, the heart cannot pump the necessary amount of oxygen and nutrients. Hypertension can lead to heart failure, because it causes coronary artery disease and left ventricular hypertrophy.

Hypertension can cause also coronary heart disease. This means that the heart muscle is not getting enough blood. Typically, ischemic heart disease is the result of atherosclerosis or clogging of the arteries (coronary artery disease), which prevents the flow of blood. This can lead to heart attack. Symptoms of coronary heart disease include: chest pain that may spread to the arms, back, neck or jaw, chest pain, accompanied by nausea, sweating, shortness of breath and dizziness, irregular heartbeat, fatigue and weakness.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a disease in which the muscle wall of the heart thickens. It interferes with the normal functioning of the heart valves or outflow of blood from the heart. The symptoms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy may include: chest pain, irregular heartbeat, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, weakness, loss of consciousness.??????????? ??????????????????????? During the examination your doctor will pay attention to the following symptoms: high blood pressure, enlarged heart and irregular heartbeat, fluid in the lungs or lower extremities, an unusual tone of the heart. Also, in order to diagnose your doctor may conduct tests to determine heart disease, such as electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, and electrocardiogram, taken during exercise with a load, chest x-ray.

For the treatment of heart disease, your doctor should treat high blood pressure, which is its cause. He may prescribe medications such as diuretics, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin-II receptor blockers, and alpha blockers.

High salt intake can cause diseases such as high blood pressure (hypertension) or heart failure, as well as aggravate pre-existing disease. Eating less salt can reduce blood pressure. This in turn will help reduce the risk of heart disease. Salt – is an important component of our diet. However, most of us eating too much salt. A large amount of salt we eat – is the salt that we add to dishes at the table. Most people consume far more sodium than is necessary. The use of more than 2, 500 mg of salt per day is considered harmful.??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????? So try not to use salt at the table and follow these tips:

1. critically review the sources of salt in your diet, such as food from the restaurant, seasoning salt, and on the basis of semi-fast food.

2. Read the information on product packaging when you make a purchase. Choose no salt cereal, crackers, pasta sauces, canned vegetables and any other foods low in salt.

3. If you think that your diet is too much salt, balance it with foods rich in potassium, such as fresh fruits and vegetables.

4. Ask how much salt is added to the dishes, especially in restaurants. Most chefs will not add salt to your request.

5. If you need to salt the food during cooking, add salt at the very end, so you add a lot less. The longer the prepared dish, the less salty it seems in the end.?????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????? You can reduce the amount of salt consumed, using a salt substitute. In order to make their own salt substitute, shifts below listed ingredients and put them in a shaker: 0. 5 tablespoon (2. 5 grams) of cayenne pepper, 0. 5 tablespoons (2. 5 g) of garlic powder, 1 teaspoon (5 grams): basil, onion powder, black pepper, parsley, nutmeg, sage, marjoram, savory, cumin. Consult your doctor before you start to use the salt substitute.

Low blood pressure or hypotension does not threaten life and health to such an extent as his antagonist – hypertension. However, reduced below the physiological norm pressure can bring a man enough unpleasant things.

? The vast majority of people with hypotension tolerate her symptoms. As a rule, it is children and adolescents, young adults, athletes. Asymptomatic hypotension is physiologically normal and does not require any correction. But women need to be careful: often in their youth they may experience low blood pressure and it is connected with the relaxing effect of female hormones (estrogen) on the wall of blood vessels but in menopausal with a reduction hormone level situation is changing – rapidly develops hypotension in hypertension. Sometimes the pressure can drop a perfectly healthy person with normal range 120/80, simply because, for example, a hot climate or because of any drugs.

?Those who have low blood pressure is accompanied by physical ailments, such as: fatigue, decreased performance and the overall tone, drowsiness, dizziness and headaches, bouts of cold sweat, fainting, and sometimes – a tremor in the limbs, weather-dependent, be sure to check for any diseases, because such symptoms indicate that hypotension is a symptom of it.

The most common cause of unpleasant symptoms is a functional disorder of the cardiovascular system – neural circulatory dystonia of hypotonic type, resulting in disturbed central regulation of vascular tone. Also, the reason may be, for example, gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, tuberculosis of the lungs, liver and gall bladder, nervous system and endocrine organs.

With proper treatment of the underlying disease is usually normalized and pressure indicators. Those who tolerate low blood pressure is good, too, cannot be taken lightly as this under reduced pressure, reduced blood flow to vital organs such as heart and brain, causing nausea and loss of consciousness, even the one who brings good hypotension.

Salt – is not just a condiment, it plays a vital role in metabolism. However, people often consume more salt than they need. As a result, a significantly increased risk of heart attacks and hypertension. To avoid this, you should give up the 10 most salty foods.

1. First place in our ranking took obvious salt champions. 30 g of potato chips contain 149 mg of salt. Their colleagues in the wrecking shop from Germany ? pretzels – contain 385 mg of sodium. Councils there is no, except that just delete from your diet, these foods once and for all.

2. Frozen dinners. It is quick, easy and terribly salty. 150 g of chicken with rice may contain more than 787 mg of sodium. To verify this, read the package.

3. Breakfast cereals. Unexpectedly, however, some types of breakfast cereals with added fat may contain up to 360 mg of sodium. One can only wonder – what in the product, which we fill with milk, so much salt? The Council then one – carefully read the packaging.

4. Vegetable juices. Packaged vegetable juices contain a lot of salt – to 653 mg per cup. Especially a lot of salt is in tomato juice, where salt acts as a preservative. Try to make vegetable juices yourself.

5. Canned vegetables. Canned vegetables can be an excellent replacement fresh. Unfortunately, they often come in sauces or in the “au jus”, which contain large amounts of salt. For example, a handful of canned corn can contain up to 720 mg of sodium. To get rid of it, just rinse the vegetables under the water.

6. Processed meat products. This is a chop, ham, which are often delivered in a cellophane package. Two pieces of the meat can break all records on the content of salt ? 362 mg! We advise you to opt out of the processed meat products in favor of fresh beef or chicken.

7. Soups. A mug of hot fragrant soup can contain up to 900 mg of sodium. Of course, if you are not prepared for it themselves.

8. Sauces. A tablespoon of soy sauce contains 1024 mg of salt. Teriyaki sauce in Japanese food contains almost 700 mg of sodium. A tablespoon of ketchup – 167 mg. Spaghetti sauce – up to 525 mg. Change it all on apple cider vinegar or lemon juice.

9. Spices. Sometimes manufacturers put salt in ready-mix. Do not buy them, prefer spices without additives.

10. Peanuts. Tasty nuts are often sprinkled with useful lots of salt. Small packing roasted peanuts contain 230 mg of salt. Buy nuts in weight, in that their form, they are rarely sold salted.

Normalize blood pressure without medication may be – though it does not mean the abolition of drugs if treatment is started. But the observance of simple rules can help prevent or slow the progression of the disease.

?It is best to completely avoid salt and salty foods, for example, pickles, hot dogs, sausages, etc. It should reduce salt intake to 5 grams per day. Salt retains water in the body, and the more water in the vessels – the higher the blood pressure. If the daily use no more than 5 grams of salt, it will reduce blood pressure by 4-9 mmHg.

?Rice helps to reduce blood pressure. Twice a week should be fasting day rice. Potassium, which is contained in rice, replaces sodium and body water decrease, blood pressure drops.

Cholesterol reduction lowers blood pressure. It should be replaced with animal fats to vegetable. This will reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood, which subsequently lead to a lowering of blood pressure. It is better to completely abandon the use of butter, sour cream, mayonnaise, beef, and to include in the diet of fish, vegetables, fruit, and yogurt. This measure will reduce blood pressure by 4-6 mmHg.

?Active walking helps reduce blood pressure. Vasodilation that occurs during walking helps reduce blood pressure. It should try to walk every day for 30-40 minutes at a speed of 2 steps per second. But remember: if you already have high blood pressure, it first must be lowered with medicines, and then start walking.

? Twice a day, reduce stress through meditation. Stresses provoke high blood pressure. In times of stress in the brain released special hormones. They stimulate the production of substances that increase blood pressure. You can reduce stress through meditation: to comfortably sit, relax, close your eyes, make a calm breath and exhale. To not think about nothing during your meditation, you focus on your breathing. Meditation is best done twice a day, morning and evening, for 5-10 minutes.

?After 55 years of aspirin in low doses. People older than 55 years of age should take aspirin in low doses (less than 100 mg). This drug prevents blood clots.

Blood pressure in humans depends on many factors. But the decisive factor of two factors. First – this is the amount of blood injected into the arterial system in heart. When a person is at rest, the left ventricle delivers blood vessels in 4-5 liters of blood per minute – enough to meet the needs of the body is at rest. During exercise, this figure may well rise.

In order to “bleed” through the circulatory system of these liters of blood, the heart has to overcome the resistance, arising mainly from the friction of blood against the walls of blood vessels. This resistance depends on the velocity of blood. And then comes into the second factor that determines the blood pressure – the value of the vascular lumen. If the vessels are narrowed, in order to drive through them the same amount of blood flow velocity should increase. As a result, friction is growing, increasing vascular resistance, the pressure increases. And if the blood vessels in any manner to expand, blood flow decreases, the resistance decreases and the pressure is reduced.

? The vessels are always in a state of some abbreviations: they have, as doctors say, a certain tone. Regulate its special mechanisms that maintain a relatively constant pressure. An important role among them belongs to the autonomic nervous system in charge of the regulation of metabolism and function of internal organs (circulation, respiration, “digestion, separation, etc). Autonomic nervous system acts spontaneously, independently of our consciousness.

On his way to the internal autonomic nerves have gaps – special bundles, which are called ganglia. The process of excitation spreads from this nerve pass through these breaks to special chemical transmitter (mediator) – acetylcholine. Here’s how. When a nerve impulse reaches the end of the preganglionic nerve fibers, fiber released acetylcholine. He gets on the postganglionic fibers; there arises a new action potential, which moves on to the appropriate authority. At the end of the postganglionic fibers are again a process of electrochemical conversion – from the nerve terminal once again released a chemical neurotransmitter. Getting on the muscle fibers of vessels, the mediator is to reduce, and vessel diameter decreases.

?Of the vasomotor center located in the brain is to the vessels of a continuous stream of pulses. Every second, every muscle fibril, located in the vascular wall, receives one or two pulses, and as a result of the entire vascular system is in a state of tonic contraction. If the pulse rate decreases, – the vessels expand, if it increases ? more constrict vessels and the pressure rises.

In the world there are a huge number of people suffering from dependence on coffee. If you do not start their working day with one or two cups of this drink, they can be very difficult to concentrate at work. Some researchers claim that coffee is good, some believe caffeine dangerous.????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????? The following opinions are marked so that you are able to determine what dose of coffee you should choose, and whether to do it all. So:????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1 cup of coffee a day. Arguments for: a study of Greek scientists has proved that this quantity of coffee is enough to lower blood pressure. It is believed that this is associated with coffee available in antioxidants. In addition, a cup of coffee increases the efficiency of the brain, scientists have shown how the University of Bristol. Arguments against: even a cup of coffee helps insomnia.

?2 cups of coffee a day. Arguments for: good prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, as proved by scientists from the University of Florida. Arguments against: pregnant should not increase the dose of coffee for more than two cups a day because the body produces an increased amount of blood cortisol and adrenaline, which increases the risk of miscarriage.

?3 cups of coffee a day. Arguments for: reducing the risk of developing ovarian cancer by 20%, wrote about it in the journal Cancer in 2008 and in men, reduced risk of stone formation in gall bladder. Arguments against: the risk of myocardial grows, as has been demonstrated. After a dose of caffeine increases blood pressure and increased heart rate.

?4 cups of coffee a day. Arguments for: contained within this dose of antioxidants, coffee has the strongest positive effect and reduced the risk of developing colorectal cancer and prostate tumors. Arguments against: two times increases the danger of rheumatoid arthritis.

?5 cups of coffee a day. Arguments for: reducing the risk of serious liver damage in three quarters, as Japanese researchers have found from the National Cancer Center in Tokyo. Arguments against: a large dose of coffee is a risk factor for osteoporosis. However, some experts questioned the assertion that exposes.

6 or more cups of coffee a day. Arguments for: reducing the risk of some types of skin cancer is found, scientists from Wayne State University in Detroit. Arguments against: the dose of coffee leads to dehydration, increased levels of stress and anxiety, increased risk of irritable bowel syndrome, increased blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular disease.

Thus, one cup of coffee lowers blood pressure; the two are a good protection against dementia, and six – reducing the risk of developing skin cancer. Is coffee still good for your health? You decide.

American researchers have concluded that the daily 45-minute sleep helps lower blood pressure and strengthens heart health, especially if the person is not getting enough sleep at night. Earlier, Greek scientists have reported that a 30-minute sleep at least three times a week helps to reduce the 37% risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

Research staff at Harvard Medical School has shown that naps will protect us from heart disease. The results showed that for those people who sleep during the day, the risk of mortality from heart disease decreases by 40 percent, for people who sleep during the day. Scientists link the usefulness of daytime sleep with the fact that it has beneficial effects on levels of stress hormones, because their abundance is associated with increased risk of strokes and heart attacks.

Naps also positively affect the human brain. Research conducted by scientists at the University of California, showed that participants who slept during the day at least half an hour, showed the best results in complex written tests than those who did not sleep.

?What is the optimal duration of a nap?

That’s what the experts say:

?6 minutes: enough to stimulate the efficient handling of memory (clear short-term memory to create a free “place” for new facts);

?20 min: during this time you pass through the first two phases of the sleep cycle, during which there is a slow heartbeat. This will increase alertness, attentiveness, and lift your spirits;

40 minutes: if you slept poorly last night, and you need to improve care, 40-minute sleep will allow you to restore immunity and increase energy levels;

?90 minutes: if you have the time, sleep length and a half to three hours to allow you to go through one full cycle of sleep and help restore full physical strength. Scientists argue that the best time for a nap – this is from 13.00 to 15.00.

?For those who slept less than eight hours daily sleep is essential. Know the measure, and remember that daytime sleep only complements, but does not replace sleep.