There
is evidence that lifestyle affects your risk of having a heart attack. Making
changes to your diet, how much exercise you take, your alcohol intake, as well
as cutting down on smoking or losing weight if you’re overweight can reduce
your risk of another heart attack.
Changes to your diet
ü Eat more bread, fruit, vegetables and fish, and less meat.
ü Choose products made from vegetable and plant oils (such as
olive oil) instead of products such as butter and cheese.
ü Avoid foods that contain a lot of fat (especially saturated
fat), salt and added sugar.
ü Eat two to four portions of oily fish a week, such as herring,
sardines, mackerel, salmon, trout and tuna. A portion is about 140g (a small
tin of oily fish or a small fillet of fresh fish).
ü Choose healthy ways of cooking and preparing your food.
ü Don’t fry food or roast it in fat. Instead, steam, poach, bake,
casserole, microwave or stir fry.
ü Don’t take beta-carotene (a type of vitamin A) supplements.
ü Be aware that taking vitamins C or E or folic acid won’t help
prevent another heart attack.
ü Drink less alcohol
ü If you drink alcohol, stay within the recommended limits and
don’t binge drink.
Take regular exercise
Regular
exercise can help your heart. Adults should do at least 150 minutes (2 hours
and 30 minutes) of moderate-intensity aerobic activity every week.
Your
doctor will give you advice about whether you need to increase your activity
levels, and how to do this safely. It will depend on:
Ø How well you’ve recovered
Ø How physically active you are now
Ø How physically active you used to be
Ø What type of exercise you enjoy
Choose
activities that make you slightly breathless, but you shouldn’t feel pain or
discomfort. If you do, stop and rest immediately.
Stop smoking
Smoking
increases your risk of having another heart attack.
If
you smoke, get help and advice to help you stop. Treatments are available at
our clinic to help you stop smoking.
If
you’re overweight, you’re putting extra strain on your heart and increasing
your risk of another heart attack. If you need to lose weight, the healthcare
professional looking after you, such as your doctor, can give you advice and
support about reaching and maintaining your ideal weight.
Cardiac rehabilitation
After
your heart attack you'll be given advice and support. You’ll be invited to
attend a cardiac rehabilitation programme to help you recover and lead your
life as normally as possible.
The
programme covers:
Exercise
Health
education and information
Stress
management
Reassurance
about sexual activity.
For more details & Consultation Feel
free to contact us.
Vivekanantha
Clinic Consultation Champers at
Chennai:- 9786901830
Pondicherry:- 9865212055
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For appointment please
Call us or Mail Us
76 6720 9080
Vivekanantha Clinic 24*7 Health Line
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