World Heart Day is celebrated every year on 29 September to raise awareness about Cardiovascular disease (CVD). The theme for World Heart Day 2024 is "Use Heart for Action", focusing on encouraging proactive steps to improve heart health worldwide. This year's campaign aims to: Empower individuals to take better care of their heart health. Urge leaders to prioritize … [Read more...]
Pregnancy and Heart Disease
Pregnancy is one of the physiological conditions that places a considerable burden on the heart, forcing it to work harder for a significantly long period - nine months. While a normal heart is quite capable of taking this extra workload right in its stride, a diseased one may not be able to cope. Different kinds of heart disease may cause different problems … [Read more...]
Exercising With Heart Disease
Although discomfort during exercise is a principal reason that patients with heart failure seek medical care, exercise training is safe and can benefit these patients, according to the American Heart Association. Exercise plays an important role in both the prevention and rehabilitation of many forms of heart disease. Exercise can have a positive influence on many of the … [Read more...]
20 Foods to Save Your Heart
To help you get in the swing of heart-smart eating, WF health experts have come up with a list of 20 foods put your heart performance to pinnacle. According to newly updated (2011) guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA), women are now classified in three groups: high risk for heart disease, at risk, or ideal cardiovascular health. The high-risk group changed … [Read more...]
Yoga For A Healthy Heart
Eight million women today are living with heart disease, and they're developing it at younger and younger ages. Stress is considered to be a major contributing factor. Yoga is a gentle form of exercise. It is not normally aerobic, and does not place a strain on the heart or other organs. A wide variety of yoga positions can be done in bed, sitting down, lying on the floor … [Read more...]
Sex after a Heart Attack: New Guidelines
The European Society of Cardiology and the American Heart Association has come up with a document based on a consensus between doctors on how to resume a healthy sex life after having suffered a heart attack. Many patients with implantable defibrillators worry about the device firing during sex. One study found that the percentage of patients … [Read more...]
Secondary Prevention Guidelines To Reduce Heart Attack
Every year more women than men die of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease, which is a very surprising statistic to many people. Women are also more likely than men to die from a heart attack, and to die after a procedure in which the artery is opened, such as a stent or a balloon angioplasty. Also, women are more likely than men to have another heart attack within five … [Read more...]
First Aid Measures for a Woman Having Heart Attack at Office
Heart attack survivors often describe feeling like “a truck on the chest,” “breathing through a straw” or even “arms felt like bowling balls.” Main Signs of a Heart Attack in Women • Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. • Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach. • Shortness of breath, … [Read more...]
Women Fitness is Celebrating #LoveurSelf 2020 Campaign this V’day
With Valentine’s Day nearing, look out ways to remind yourself that its important to love yourself first before loving anybody else. Our campaign #LoveurSelf 2020 went live on the 7th and is on till 14th Feb. While women continue to submit their stand, you too can join in by simply contact us. Its Time to #LoveurSelf this Valentine's Day Start your Day with a … [Read more...]
5 Recipes Low in Cholesterol
Our body needs cholesterol to function. But it becomes a problem when it builds up in your artery walls, putting you at risk for heart disease and stroke. So here we have for you 5 Low-cholesterol recipes, Peanut Butter Energy Balls Ingredients 1 cup natural peanut butter or another nut butter½ cup honey¼ cup mini chocolate chips¼ cup unsweetened shredded … [Read more...]
Yogurt Appears to Benefit Heart Health
Women who eat at least 100 grams (slightly less than half a cup) of yogurt every day have significantly less plaque build-up on the walls of their carotid arteries. A new study published on February 15, 2018 by Oxford University Press USA in the American Journal of Hypertension, suggests that higher yogurt intake is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk … [Read more...]
