GKT IYER

 We all enjoy the winter season. We enjoy hot coffee and candies on cold days, but we also tend to associate the winter with old friends and family reunions/festivals. But it’s also of vital importance to restrict your intake of saturated fats during the winter months to help avoid clogged arteries and keep your heart in good health. Unfortunately, incidences of human casualties due to heart disease and stroke increase during the winter season. Luckily, these conditions are avoidable with a healthy lifestyle. Studies have shown that heart attacks in winter are less sometimes fatal than in summer. Angina, heart attack and other heart related conditions are more common on winter mornings. How does winter affect heart health? In cold weather, our noses tend to get sore and runny, resulting in a runny nose and sneezing constantly. You may also suffer from some stuffy congestion. Most common in winter are colds and the flu which can have serious symptoms like coughs, fevers, h...

 The phrase "heart failure" is often used to describe the condition when the heart becomes ineffective or is no longer able to pump enough blood throughout the body. However, there are two different types of heart failure according to the severity of the condition - one can be called congestive heart failure. It requires some sort of medical attention if it goes untreated, but it isn't always taken as seriously as true heart failure. Your body relies on the heart’s pumping action in order to deliver oxygen with each beat throughout the body. When there isn't enough blood flow, the heart muscle will weaken drastically which may eventually lead to severe pain and in some cases with longer-term effects in regards to everyday tasks such as carrying items from one place to another. On a less serious note, sometimes these abnormal changes can result in shortness of breath or even chronic day-to-day fatigue but again, these tend to get better over time. In rare cases howev...