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Monday, September 20, 2010

Another great reason to eat healthy and exercise

My mom was diagnosed with angina on Thursday (Sept 9th), she was scheduled for a Angiogram on Sept 14th, but her body had a different idea. My dad took her the hospital Saturday night at 2am (Sept 11th) because she thought she was having a heart attack. They did the Angiogram Sunday and ended up putting a stint at that time in her main artery of her heart because it was 95 to 99% blocked, the doctor said she was lucky because she was a heart beat away from a heart attack. She came home Monday & doing good now thank God!! That was so stressful!!
So with all this said, I want to stress again how important it is to eat healthy, my mom has never had a weight problem, she has always been relativity skinny, but she has not always eaten healthy foods, for her it clearly didn’t show up as fat on her body but what it was doing is what Dr. Oz refers to as silent killers, unbeknownst to her it was clogging her artery’s. I am not saying hers was solely caused my unhealthy eating, but she also dint have really any other than age of the other main causes for this. You can help prevent angina (Coronary Artery Disease) by not smoking, monitoring & controlling other health conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, eating a healthy diet, increasing your physical activity, with your doctor's OK, maintaining a healthy weight, & reducing your stress level.
This was a rude waking for all of us, especially my mom and dad, we all thought she was in very good health, none of us knew her arteries were 95 to 99% blocked, and in her doctors own words “she was a heart beat away from a heart attack”. That is my point you just don’t know what is going on inside your body because of the choices your making!! Luckily for my mom this was caught in the nick of time before something worst happened, and or things were not repairable. Again this is why it is soooooooooo important to start eating healthy foods and exercising, (whether you are over weight or not) as I have said many many times before just walking 30 minutes 5 days a week is a great for your health. If for some reason you don’t want to do this for yourself, then for God sakes do it for your family and friends that love you and will be left behind grieving if you die!!!

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