Eat Your Breakfast

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  eat your breakfast.  Make sure it contains protein, fruit, fibre, and complex carbs.  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  A healthy breakfast will kickstart you into a lifestyle of better health...it's all about attitude people.  If you eat the bagels, you'll look like one.  If you go for the eggwhites, protein shakes and oatmeal or a chicken sandwich in the morning, you're blood sugar levels won't spike and drop, you'll have more energy and you'll look and feel better at the end of the day.

Alcohol and Your Skin

We all know that cigarettes are bad for our skin, but what about alcohol?  Alcohol can aggravate conditions such as rosacea, psoriasis, hives, cause epic breakouts of acne and, last but not least...make your nose look like W.C. Field's.  Some individuals have an 'allergic reaction' to alcohol which manifests in a bright red/almost scarlet face and heart palpitations or cluster headaches.  Beer and red wine will cause the greatest flushing of the face, so if this is what happens to your skin when you imbibe, you'd be better off with a distilled spirit such as vodka, gin or whiskey.  If wine is your beverage of choice, look for a sulfite-free wine..there are many tasty wines made without sulfites.  Ask your wine merchant about these choices.
Mixed drinks and cocktails are usually made with sugars or sweet syrups.  Some contain liqueurs (Kahlua, Amaretto, Baileys) that are very high in sugar; if you're looking to pack on the pounds or pimples, these are the drinks to have....NOT!  Have a mixed drink made with club soda; fewer calories and less sugar.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Please use your head.  Drink responsibly and in moderation.  The American Heart Association suggests this to be one drink a day for women, and one to two drinks for men (depending on their size).

Aspirin and Heart Attacks

A patient of mine shared this with me yesterday and I thought I'd pass it on to all of you....
Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:

Why keep aspirin by your bedside?

About Heart Attacks
There are other symptoms of an heart attack besides the pain on the left arm.
One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating, however these symptoms may also occur less frequently.
Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.. The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep, did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.
If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouthand swallow them with a bit of water .
Afterwards :
CALL 911
- say "heart attack!"
- say that you have taken 2 aspirins..
- phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by
- take a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door, and wait for their arrival and.
~ DO NOT lie down ~
A Cardiologist has stated that, if each person, after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably one life can be saved!
I have already shared the information- - What about you?
Do forward this message; it may save lives!

Waist Size, Your Heart and Your Sex Life

Did you know that waist sizes greater than 40" in men and 35" in women are very strong indicators of metabolic dysfunction and are linked to possibly 50% in heart disease cases?  A large waist size is also linked to erectile dysfunction, poor sex drive, high blood pressure, high blood fats, type 2 diabetes and high insulin resistance. (European Journal Cardiovascular Preventtion Rehabilitation, 16:  729-734, 2009).

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  all of the above are very good reasons to take a 1/2 hour walk or get that 30 minutes of exercise in everyday.