Saturday, February 12, 2011

Need advices to guide someone to improve health conditions to avoid heart disease without hurting feeling

Need advices to guide someone to improve health conditions to avoid heart disease without hurting feeling?
At least 5 people I knew had stent procedures and/or bypass surgeries last month. Correct someone to drop extreme high cholesterol foods and taking medicine to control blood pressure is a difficult task sometime to fight this disease that they often dont want to become any part of the criticized object. Very appreciate any successful experience and ideas.
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Changing one's diet and exercise patterns are the best way to reduce heart attack risk, but these take a lot of commitment. You cannot do it for them, no matter how much you might want to. What you might be able to do is do it WITH them. For example, if the person needs to diet, which is common, try doing it at the same time. This usually means avoiding sweets -- no cookies, cakes, candy, or ice cream. Also, to bring down high blood pressure, a person usually needs to lower their dietary sodium, which means less salt. This is often the hardest thing to get used to. You can buy foods with artificial sweeteners that still taste sweet. But there is no real substitute for salt. It is best to "bite the bullet" and just do without. It's hard at first, but you do get used to it after awhile. Then your taste buds revive and you begin to notice all the subtle flavors that you never noticed before. You must be patient, though. Buy the American Heart Association cook book to help with guidelines on fats, sugar, salt, and cholesterol. Dieting with someone is always less burdensome than doing it alone, because you can encourage each other, tell each other, "You're doing great! Keep up the good work!" And reward each successful week on the diet by going to a movie -- or something else you enjoy that doesn't involve food

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