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CHAT WITH HEART SPECIALIST- DR. DEVI SHETTY
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know what is expected
do what is expected
deliver what is expected
focus + discipline = result

A chat with Dr. Devi Shetty , Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone:

Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart ?
Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar

Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
Ans: No

Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?
Ans: Yes

Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?
Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.

Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart?
Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints .

Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so?
Ans: Mother Theresa, who was my patient.

Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
Ans: Extremely rare

Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age (I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?
Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.

Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart?
Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.

Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.

Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?
Ans: Yoga helps.

Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.

Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
Ans: All oils are bad .

Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test?
Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.

Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.

Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?
Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.

Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems.
Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.

Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
Ans: Yes.

Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true?
Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child

Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?
Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. Ho wever, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.

Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short/long term)?
Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. Ho wever, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.

Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
Ans : No.

Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
Ans : No.

Qn: How would you define junk food?
Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds, samosas, and even masala dosas.

Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?
Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.

Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
Ans : No.

Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)?
Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.

Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems?
Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.

Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?
Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot.

Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.

Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?
Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time, Control cholesterol, BP, weight.

Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?
Ans : No.

Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?
Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.

Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks?
Ans : No.

Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.

Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ...

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a1. Membentuk Akhlak yang Baik

Akhlak yang elok dibentuk sejak dari awal kejadian lagi. Ibu bapa memainkan peranan masing-masing membentuk akhlak yang baik dalam diri anak-anak. Sebenarnya, mendidik anak-anak jadi seorang yang mempunyai akhlak yang baik bermula sebelum berkahwin lagi. Seorang lelaki mesti cari seorang calon isteri yang solehah, begitu juga sebaliknya. Asas agama yang kukuh pada suami dan isteri, insyaAllah akan terbentuklah keluarga yang diberkati Allah.

Isteri itu amanah Allah kepada suami. Mari ikuti satu kisah di zaman para sahabat:
Ada seorang sahabat tidak tahan dengan perangai isterinya yang suka berleter. Dia ingin meminta nasihat daripada Saidina Umar berkenaan perkara tersebut. Ketika dia sampai di hadapan rumah Saidina Umar, dia terdengar isteri Saidina Umar sedang berleter pada Saidina Umar. Lalu sahabat tersebut membatalkan hasratnya untuk bertemu dengan Saidina Umar sebab perkara yang sama turut berlaku pada Saidina Umar. Tapi Saidina Umar ternampak sahabat ni, dipanggilnya sahabat tersebut dan bertanyakan tujuan kedatangannya. Kata sahabat tersebut, "Sebenarnya wahai Amirul Mukminin, aku mahu meminta nasihat darimu tentang isteriku yang sangat suka berleter tapi apabila aku sampai ke rumahmu, aku dapati perkara yang sama berlaku ke atasmu. Lantas aku batalkan niatku untuk mendapatkan nasihatmu." Jawab Saidina Umar, "Wahai sahabat, isteri adalah amanah Allah. Isteriku terlalu banyak kelebihannya. Dia telah memasak makanan untukku, membasuhkan pakaian untukku dan dialah juga yang menyusukan anakku sedangkan itu semua bukanlah kewajipannya. Akulah yang sepatutnya memasak, membasuh, dan aku jugalah yang sepatutnya mencari orang untuk menyusukan anakku. Disebabkan kelebihannya yang banyak itulah, maka aku sabarkan diriku terhadap kelemahan dirinya yang satu itu (berleter)."

Urusan mendidik anak-anak adalah amanah Allah kepada ibu bapa. Ia adalah tanggung jawab yang penting dan berat untuk dilaksanakan. Memang benar, menghasilkan berpuluh-puluh kereta lebih mudah daripada menghasilkan generasi soleh-solehah dengan keadaan masyarakat yang haru-biru sekarang ni. Kadang-kadang, anak-anak rosak disebabkan masyarakat sekeliling. Sebab itu setiap Muslim memainkan peranan dalam membentuk masyarakat yang baik seterusnya membentuk sebuah negara Islam.

Anak-anak harus dididik untuk memberi sumbangan pada Islam, biasakan mereka dengan pakaian-pakaian menutup susuk tubuh (anak lelaki dibiasakan pakai seluar panjang dan berkopiah, anak perempuan dibiasakan dengan pemakaian tudung) agar mereka biasa dengan pakaian-pakaian yang menutupi seluruh tubuh badan, cenderungkan anak-anak ke arah membuat perkara kebaikan dan sekat mereka buat perkara-perkara jahat. Tapi, kalau pun hendak mendenda anak-anak atas kesalahan mereka, biarlah berhemah dan munasabah. Jangan terlalu berkasar dengan mereka samapai lebam-lebam dan luka-luka di badan.

Dan jangan pula disayang secara berlebihan dan jangan diajar mereka hidup mewah. Ajar anak-anak jadi sederhana, jadikan mereka seorang yang berani, pemurah dan jadikan mereka seorang mujahideen. Kawal juga TV...pilih siaran yang bermanfaat untuk ditonton. Dan pastikan juga makanan yang diberi pada anak-anak dan isteri adalah halal dan daripada sumber yang halal. "We are what we eat..."

Fikih Sunnah 1: ruginya kalau tak baca

Semalam Ahad; 05/07/2009 saya mencari-cari semula buku tulisan Sayyid Sabiq ini. Kebetulan ada masa terluang elok juga mengulang baca.

Kandungan buku Fikih Sunnah ini membahaskan masalah-masalah Perundangan/Hukum Islam disertai dalil-dalil bersumber daripada Kitab Al-Quran dan Sunah Nabi Muhammad SAW yang sah, juga Ijma’ daripada Ummat Islam yang muktabar.

Kupasan yang sangat terperinci dalam buku ini dapat menghindari diri kita dari pertikaian tentang sesuatu isu.

Language Is Like A Dress, We Vary It To Suit The Occasion

In the study of any language it is possible for us to study in great detail its phonemes, morphology and syntax. But it is not our concern to study all these in detail. What we are concerned here is the practical use of the Bahasa Malaysia as a means of communications.

In the study of a language the important thing is to discover not whether it is right or wrong but what it is. How do people use it? As such we will treat the Bahasa Malaysia as a dynamic language, always on the move. And in this blog we shall not be concerned with the traditional or pedantic rules of grammar.

Why not we use the Bahasa Malaysia as a medium of instruction in academic institutions and as a medium of communication in the administrative and commercial fields in our plural society in Malaysia today? Please remember that greater emphasis the Bahasa Malaysia should be laid on the correct way of studying it and using it in everyday life.

Please remember that the Bahasa Melayu has been the lingua franca in the Malayo-Polynesian region since at least the fourteenth century. It has gone through various changes and has come under the influence of Sanskrit, Arabic and European languages. This proves one thing – the flexbility of Bahasa Malaysia to attune itself to contemporary needs with which we are primarily concerned here.



So we move along with this idea in our mind: Language is like a dress, we vary it to suit the occasion.

Bahasa tu ibarat sepersalinan lengkap, kita menyarungnya ke badan menurut kesesuaian masa.




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1. Bahasa Malaysia: The National Language of Federation Of Malaysia.
2. However Malaysia and Indonesia agreed to adopt a new spelling system which used in both countries as the Indonesian Language (Bahasa Nasional Indonesia) are kin to Malay Language (Bahasa Malaysia), during 1966-68.

1.1. Mulanya Luak Ini Dipanggil Jelebu

Tanah Jelebu itu sebenarnya satu sahaja... tak ada yang lain. Tapi disebabkan ramai orang pandai dan banyak hikayat direkacipta... maka ada macam-macam versi Jelebu yang timbul dari satu mulut ke satu mulut. Ada juga yang terbit dalam bentuk teks bertulis di dada akhbar, di perut majalah dan juga dibukukan sebagai jurnal akademik. Macam cendawan kukur tumbuh merutup di kayu getah mati lepas hujan. Tak tau nak pilih yang mana satu. Banyak sangat!

Saya bawakan di sini salah satu versi yang dianggap asli. Beginilah ceritanya:

Luak (daerah) bertuah ini mulanya dikenali sebagai Sungai Lumut. Nama Jelebu ini datang kemudian, bermula daripada kisah Biduanda-Biduanda Jakun yang berasal dari tempat bernama Batang Labu (kini Labu) di Semujong (Daerah Seremban), datang membawa benih labu ke Sungai Lumut.

Setelah beberapa hari perjalanan, apabila sampai di Ulu Teriang hari telah malam. Ketika bersiap-siap untuk tidur, Biduanda-Biduanda Jakun nampak bintang di langit sangat banyak. Beribu juta. Itu tandanya kalau mereka bertanam labu tentu menjadi!

Esoknya benih labu itu pun ditanam oleh Biduanda-Biduanda Jakun itu di sekitar tebing Sungai Teriang dan didapati sangat subur hidupnya. Menjalarlah pokok labu yang ditanam itu memenuhi kawasan tersebut. Tiba masanya labu itu rajin berbunga, seterusnya berputik dan bila berbuah, buahnya pun sangat banyak.

Sedar dengan keadaan tersebut, Biduanda-Biduanda Jakun itu bermuafakat lalu mengubah nama tempat itu sebagai JALAR LABU, mengambil sempena tuah labu yang tumbuh di situ. Lama kelamaan sebutan Jalar Labu itu bertukar menjadi JELEBU. Demikianlah mulanya nama tanah Jelebu itu.

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Nota Kaki: Biduanda (orang bergelar/berkedudukan) Jakun ialah kaum bumiputra di Malaysia dari suku-bangsa Melayu-Proto. Lima lagi pecahan suku-bangsa ini ialah Orang Kuala, Temuan, Semelai, Seletar dan Kanaq.

BUAH BELULUK

Inilah BUAH BELULUK. Kalau tidak silap saya ia banyak terdapat di belukar negara ini. Masa kanak-kanak dulu kita orang selalu melagukan puisi lisan berkait buah beluluk ni:

Ikut kata enggang
makan buah beluluk
ikut kata orang
tenggelam dalam lubuk..

Memang makna tersurat dan tersirat dalam SELOKA BELULUK ini hebat sangat. Selain itu banyak lagi rahsia yang terungkap dalam buah beluluk ni....

POTRET TUA YANG SAYA TENGOK...

Terima kasih pada lukisan potret ini... membawa isu yang ramai manusia takut, itulah 'TUA'

Dalam hidup ini tua tidak datang diundang.. ia datang dalam keadaan orang tak suka, benci dan marah padanya. Ia tetap datang juga. Begitulah.

Ekspresi wajah yang ditampilkan menyerlahkan situasi tak kesampaian dengan pernyataan mandatori.. mahu atau tak mahu awak mesti terima juga. Hanya ia tetap patuh meneruskan kesinambungan gaya klasik sebuah potret.

Saya nak juga tengok subjek tua ni dalam gaya retro, menggunakan warna-warna panas dan berani... songkok di tukar kepada topi, rambut pendek dan kemas tu tukar kepada panjang, serabut dan tak terurus... namun rias kedut diwajah terus kekalkan sebagai eleman tua yang tidak boleh dibantah dan dipertikaikan. Ya tua dalam dimensi dunia serba moden.

Terima kasih kerana mengingatkan saya tentang usia tua...