Eat Healthy After a Stroke

The key to your recovery after a stroke is choosing healthy foods. The key to your recovery after a stroke is choosing healthy foods. Healthy eating will be easier once you learn to deal with new eating challenges. Preventing another stroke and staying healthy can be achieved when you take appropriate steps to control your weight and blood pressure. Making healthy food choices is a major step in the right direction, and you can enhance the impact diet plays in your risk by meeting with a registered dietitian.

Points to remember:
1)Cut out fried or greasy foods. They contribute to clogged arteries and obesity.
2)Reducing your intake of butter, meat products (especially fatty meat), eggs, stick margarine, cheese and snack foods with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils or fats.
3)Eat smaller portions more often throughout the day. Having six small meals is better for your overall health especially after a stroke.
4)Eat foods that are easy to chew, taste, and swallow, and avoid others that are not.
5)Thicken liquids to make them easier to feel in your mouth and throat.
6)Eat foods that are not too hot or cold.
7)Plan to eat a variety of foods each day.
8)Eat your biggest meal early in the day when you have the most energy. The last meal of the day can be simple, such as a sandwich or cereal.
9)Attractive, tasty, pleasant-smelling foods may enhance appetite.

These important points can can save a person from a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Sudden Cardiac Arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States with over 300,000 people experiencing it every year. Upon identifying the symptoms of cardiac arrests the using an AED Equipment within the first six minutes greatly increases the survival rate.

What is H1N1 FLU?

Swine influenza (also called H1N1 flu, swine flu) is caused by influenza type A virus, there are regular outbreaks among herds of pigs, where the disease causes high levels of illness. It is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This virus was originally referred to as “swine flu” because studies have shown that the genes in this new virus are quite similar to influenza viruses that normally occur in pigs (swine).

Human infections with the new H1N1 virus are ongoing in the world. H1N1 virus is contagious and it spreads from human to human. Flu viruses spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing by people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching a surface or object with flu viruses on it. The symptoms are generally similar to seasonal human influenzas. The swine flu in humans is most contagious during the first five days of the illness.

Signs and symptoms of swine influenza in humans:
1 Body aches
2 Chills
3 Cough
4 Diarrhea (less common)
5 Headache
6 Sore throat
7 Temperature (fever)
8 Tiredness (fatigue)
9 Vomiting (less common

Recommendations to prevent your self from this virus:
1 Wash your hands frequently with soap or alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
2 Stay away from other people who might be infected from H1N1 flu.
3 Avoid large gathering perhaps stay at home.
4 Try to stay healthy
5 Refrain your self from touching surfaces which may contain the virus like public telephone, restaurant, and tabletops and so on.
6 When you cough or sneeze cover your mouth with a tissue. If you do not have a tissue, cover your mouth and nose.
7 Drink plenty of boiled water.

If you are infected then limit your contact with other people. Please do not go to work. Keep all surfaces you have touched clean and follow your doctor's instructions.


Do you know around the world sudden cardiac arrest is the sole responsible reason for deaths of more than 100000 people each year. To insure the survival of the heart attack sufferer with in four minutes one needs to use automated external cardio defibrillators. This effective AED Equipments are designed to deliver an electric shock to a victim of sudden cardiac arrest.

Pop star Michael Jackson was Suffering from Lupus

In October 2007 Michael Jackson confirmed to foxnews that he was suffering from lupus. According to a heart specialist at AEDLIFEPOWER Lupus (pronounced as loo-pus) disease is an autoimmune disorder and it affects, skin, joints, kidneys, blood cells, heart, lungs and brain. Lupus is a disease that turns the body’s defenses against the body itself. Lupus occurs when antibodies attack the healthy cells in the body. So the body creates auto antibodies that attack the body’s own healthy cells. Certain drugs can cause Lupus as well. When antibodies attack body healthy cells that results in inflammation in arteries of the heart leading to the formation of a small flattened patch or deposit in the wall of an artery. This can result in cardiovascular disease and may lead to sudden cardiac arrest. The effects Lupus in heart can cause clotting and shortness of breath

Pop star Michael Jackson died of sudden cardiac arrest something more deadly than heart attack. Certain drugs can also cause cardiac arrest. Sudden cardiac arrest is often caused due very rapid heart rhythm. The heart dies right away unless they’re shocked out of it with a defibrillator. Sometimes an adverse response to prescription drugs or illicit use of drugs can also cause arrhythmia leading to cardiac arrest.