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Food to Restore a Heart

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We know that diet, exercise and low-stress life will keep the heart healthy. But sometimes things happen that are beyond our control. 

Thanks to more coordinated, faster emergency response and improved treatment, heart attacks aren't as deadly as they used to be. But survivors still face a substantial risk of further cardiovascular events.

How to restore after a heart attack and prevent another one? What to do besides obvious things such as taking medications, reducing stress, calories, avoiding urban air pollution and getting rid of bad lifestyle habits like smoking?  ​


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Blood and Taxes

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Nothing is certain, but, according to Aurametrix users, blood pressure does increase in the end of winter and beginning of spring. As a matter of fact, it highly correlates with tax fever - as also found by Google Correlate algorithm comparing millions of web queries...

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Cars That Care

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Health technology of the future promises an easy life with no interruption in your daily activities. For example, information about your health could be collected while you're driving. A car is already viewed as a health platform and wellness coach by leading manufacturers. How would this work?

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To begin with, by measuring our heart rate. The electrocardiographic (ECG) seat built by Ford is based on studies of sensors in beds for intensive care units. Unlike traditional monitoring systems, it does not require attaching electrodes to the skin and can measure signals through relatively thin cloth. Toyota's response to Ford's seat is an ECG-sensing steering wheel.

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Sit less, Move more

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I am typing this standing in front of my computer. My tall chair is aside. About a year ago I discovered that I feel much better if I stand while working some of the time. Then I found out that other people discovered it too, and more keep discovering. We hear it often: eat less and exercise. But this may not be enough. As shown in a recent study, exercise does not counteract the ill effects of sedentary lives, we should keep moving throughout the day too.

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Watch for Health 2009

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The first reported person to actually wear a watch on the wrist was the French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). With a piece of string, he attached his pocket watch to his wrist. In the late 1800s, the wrist watch was officially invented by the Swiss watch maker, Patek Phillippe. The first wristwatch for men was designed by Louis Cartier in the early 1900s. And almost a century later watches started to incorporate more functions - from the 1977's Hewlett Packard’s HP-01 with a personal calculator, and a calendar and 2001's Linux-based WatchPad developed by IBM  and Citizen.

Then came the health monitoring. 
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​The Cyber Heartbeat LED watch (shown on the right) won’t measure your actual heartbeat, mimicking an EKG spiking in correlation to the time. But many watch-like devices nowadays actually measure a multitude of vital functions. Ranging in price from less than $30 to $400 and more, a variety of real heart rate monitors are available in the market. 

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Suunto, for example, can calculate metrics like oxygen consumption, respiratory rate and training effect. On the lower end, the Omron HR-100C is easy to use and doesn’t have a lot of fancy functions to confuse novices,measuring heart rate with a chest strap and transmitting data to the wrist-mounted display. If you want more features than the basics, reviewers recommend the Polar F11 heart rate monitor.
The Garmin  305 (image on the left) has an integrated GPS antenna, so unlike most heart rate monitors, it can tell how far and how fast you’re going and keep a history of your exercise. 

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Animas Corporation, which is now a Johnson & Johnson company, is no longer selling the current model GlucoWatch G2 Biographer System, shown on the right. Cygnus Inc. (Redwood City, California) is already working on second and third generation products that will overcome some of limitations of this watch which include skin irritation and calibration, meaning additional finger-stick tests redone about 20% of the time.

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TeleMedIS System combining the TeleMed HC Platform developed by Karolinska and Telehealth Monitoring Wristwatch (TMW) developed by Tadiran LifeCare, connected over the Wireless Network (provided by TeliaSonera Sweden), is able to measure user vital signs by using integrated biosensors. This includes 1-lead ECG, Blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2), Pulse (heart rate) and includes 2-way data and voice telecommunications. It could help to manage Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Arythmia, 
Respiratory diseases and COPD follow-ups. 

Australian researchers have developed a wristwatch that continuously monitors the health status of people with Parkinson’s disease to help doctors manage their treatment, Victorian Minister for Innovation Gavin Jennings said in May 19th press release. The wristwatch, which is still at the prototype stage, was introduced onto the world market by Mr. Jennings at BIO2009 in Atlanta, USA. Professor Malcolm Horne and Dr. Rob Griffiths are the inventors of this technology. 

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Dreamate Sleep Inducer is a non-invasive sleeping aid wristband. This watch-sized device on a strap uses acupressure techniques to “retune the biological clock and train your body to relax and sleep by massaging key acupoints on your inner wrist”. The Taiwanese gadget provides a double-frequency micro-massage (via a vibration motor) to specific pulse points—termed the “Sleeping Golden Triangle” points in traditional Chinese medicine. The company says it helps in relieving stress, inducing sleep and is especially beneficial for people suffering from jet lag.Health equipment manufacturers such as Omron Healthcare Co Ltd, Nipro Corp, and Matsushita Electric Works Ltd, all of Japan,have been announcing terminals to measure physical activity.  These “life recorders” are specifically designed to make it possible to accurately measure the amount of physical activity, pulse, skin temperature and motion. They also measure external factors such as atmospheric pressure.
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If you wear the GoWear fit armband during the course of your day, then log onto your personalized GoWear fit online activity manager, you’ll get information about the calories you’ve burned, plus a calorie consumption calculator and tips for how to best reach your fitness and lifestyle goals. GoWear fit also measures sleep duration and efficiency – so that you can begin to understand the influence your bedtime has on your overall health. BodyBugg is very similar to GoWear Fit and they both also have a food log. Sensewear has the sleep monitoring capabilities. 

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In the early 2000s, the watches were not a huge success. They were bulky and power hungry, delivering a limited amount of information and asking for a substantial ongoing cost of subscribing. Many projects have been shuttered but new models continue to appear. One of them is the Watch without a Face.

So if you do not want the world to know what exactly you are measuring, consider design suggested by Hironao Tsuboi for an LED watch. It looks like just a metal band. The . Push a button, and you get the time or what you’d like to get. Don’t push the button: no numbers, no curves, no pie charts. Very simple.

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