What does it mean to respect the heart? Listening to him. When its rhythm surprises us, it is a signal. With respect to the heart we really should always be little and faithful listeners of a symphony that keeps us alive. On this point, the World Health Day draws attention this year on 7 April .
Hypertension and the issues of World Health Day: the experiment in Japan
At the WHO ( World Health Organization ) site you find an article where hypertension is linked to Japan. Not for pure rhyme. Hypertension is the number one enemy of the Japanese, the main cause of death.
Professor Hiroyasu Iso of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine explains its causes and incidence, explaining how a detailed program of monitoring and observation of the phenomenon on the community has been developed in recent years. Joint and effective action. The staff of the hospitals and of the various health agencies, the volunteers and those who provide health services are committing themselves to follow regular visits or telephone calls to middle-aged adults and neighbors whose age group is linked to the risk of heart attack. The call or visit is also an opportunity to remember to take the prescribed medications. The encouragement is also that of movement and regular exercise .
Now, the experiment is working. Long-term forecasts are optimistic: a child or baby born in Japan today has a life expectancy of 80 and 86 respectively. The part of the initiative that most won us over is the summer programs of healthy cooking for schools where restaurant owners and teachers work together to educate boys and girls about the most correct eating habits.
Do you convince us? If volunteers and health workers maintain confidentiality and empathy, yes. There is always this border that also applies to privacy; as if to say, give your data for your safety, but, meanwhile, in fact, you are giving your data in the ether. As if to say, someone helps you keep yourself alive and vital, but in fact help should not go too far in the direction of control.
The positive side is also in mitigating the loneliness, which is underestimated, but it is one of the main forms of closure of the heart, the beginning of the alteration of the beat. I'm not talking about the quiet center wrapped in silence that each of us
Data on blood pressure of the inhabitants of the world
Some data related to the increase in blood pressure observed on the world population.
Increased blood pressure
- 40% of adults over the age of 25 (the figure refers to the year 2008);
Increased cardiovascular disorders
- 17, 3 million is the reference figure again from 2008;
NCDs ( Noncommunicable diseases)
- 80%
The heart and what feeds it
On the occasion of this April 7, World Health Day, we remind you of some gestures that can be good for heart health and reduce the risk of heart attack and hypertension:
- Eat chewing slowly . What does the heart have to do with teeth? Uh, it's got to do with it. The way we assimilate things makes us free to savor them and take care of them.
- Dedicate yourself to the earth . Gardening is therapeutic. And you know what you eat.
- Health and diet. Let's go back to remembering two or three basic nutritional precepts. Slowly with the sausages, away from the elaborate sweets, away from the gravies, top with the elbow raised. eat food that is good for the heart: fruit, vegetables, legumes, sprouts.
- To walk. Walking walking. And do exercises that encourage you to learn about the body, the fears. Explore the limits of the mind through movement.
