Hot water and blankets .. Threat to your heart in winter

Hot water and blankets .. Threat to your heart in winter

Causes angina, causes heart clots, hot water damage, cold feet
With the advent of winter Humans kind of lethargy and laziness, in spite of the large number of sleeping hours spent by human at night, as the winter all of us to rally more than a blanket or quilt without knowing that there is a danger to our hearts.
Came Egyptian study modern assure us that angina and stroke for increase with the cold weather, where at least the period against the rights of the light, which makes the body produces more of the hormone "melatonin" a hormone that causes a state of inactivity and laziness, so you are in winter in a continuing need for an additional amount of sleep, also suffers from the continuing lack of energy, strength and suffers from the ability to focus, as well as the lack of vitality in general.
The reason, as Dr. Mahmoud Hassanein, a professor of cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, that the arteries shrink in the winter, and the viscosity of the blood increases and less interest in the movement, and prolonged deflation under blankets in search of warmth.
Hassanein advised more fluid and walking and concern for the protective vaccination of influenza virus so that the body can mobilize antibodies to the virus with the beginning of winter.
Beware .. Hot water
A recent study also revealed that the shower for a long time in the basin of hot water for the feeling of warmth in the winter may result in some unexpected risks.
The team led by Chika Nishiyama from the College of Nursing at the University of Kyoto Japanese, that bathing in hot water on a cold day cause problems for the heart with a high incidence of cardiac arrest during bathing to ten-fold in the winter than in the summer, may be these findings are important, especially in Japan, where a Bathing a major part of everyday life, whether at home or as a form of entertainment with the influx of people on the many hot springs in the country to relax for a long time.
The team was based in his study on data about 11 thousand If the heart stops in Osaka west of the country in the period from 2005 to 2007. Ahead of a heart attack was 22% of people sleep and bathe and 9% 3% working and 0.5% exercise.
The remaining percentage was engaged in activities "non-specific" or unknown. Given the rates of cardiac arrest was highest in the list 54 cases per ten million people per hour of bathing and then ten cases per ten million people per hour of exercise.
For those who bathe risk associated with external temperature with a further strokes in the colder days. While it is still not clear how this can be explained by the link bathing in a basin of hot water on a cold day lead to a rapid decline in blood pressure, which affects the heart.
The Nishiyama and colleagues "may be important to follow the precautionary approach for people most at riskSuch as heating the bathroom and hallway or refraining from bathing in hot water for a long time. "
Heating feet
In the same regard, the results of a recent study by Britain's Cardiff University, that cold feet can lead to regular colds.
The study was based to a reduction in the amount of blood in the circulatory causes in reducing the body's ability to resist bacteria and viruses.
And ended the study conducted on 180 students that nasal blood vessels constrict when body temperature drops, making it easier to attacks colds.
Food for the winter cold
In the case of exposure to the cold snap we must take all necessary health precautions to keep the body temperature and maintain the efficiency of the vital functions and the prevention of colds and flu.
Among the most important of these precautions selection of food and drinks protective of the winter cold, and that warmth, it was reported much of the use of industrial heating, such as heaters and air conditioners, and other because it means temporary and dried the air chamber or at home, which helps to ease growth bacteria and viruses that cause diseases and common respiratory and digestive system.
For its part, confirmed Dr. Mona Al-Husseini nutritionist and internal diseases, pointing out that on top of these fat foods, Getting the right amount per day about 07 to 08 grams balanced healthy diet, as they provide the body with energy , so it follows harsh Rigama always feel chills in the body, fat also strengthens muscles, which helps to exercise proper movement and sport to the cold atmosphere, and provide body fat a tremendous amount of vitamin "A", where it is soluble vitamins fat and fat intake helps to absorb properly.
Protein also plays an important role in the resistance to cold because they are responsible for the formation of antibodies that protect the body from attack microbes, especially in winter, and the intervention of the proteins in the installation of the hormones that are a constant level in all biological processes, such as circulation, and the level of metabolism and fat burning, and that will maintain a constant temperature during the cold period, and for the ideal protein you should eat about 06 grams a day almost to be distributed between animal protein such as meat, chicken, fish, eggs, milk, and vegetable protein such as lentils, beans, chickpeas and beans.
Some of the foods resistance to cold also lemon, tomatoes and potatoes because they contain a high proportion of contraindications oxidation compounds "Albetakamarottan" vitamin "c". Well as lentil soup because they contain a high proportion of protein, preferably add items, such as lemon and spices to supply the body with energy and calories thermal, and chicken soup that helps a lot to resist various types of viruses that cause cold and expel phlegm with they contain some of the pieces of the hero and garlic, which is one of the more plants resistant to bacteria and fungi, and found to be effective in resisting cold and infection from other diseases such as cancer .
The salts and vitamins ranked as important to protect the body and fight the cold for its important role in cell activation and fed, and the body needs all kinds, so try eating fruit and fresh daily, so as to ensure access to a strong immune system and healthy.