Category: Heart Health
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Don’t Miss Your Sleep: How Sleep and Stress affect Your Heart
You may be used to thinking of sleep as something you catch up on after a busy day. Late-night work, scrolling on your phone, stress about tomorrow, or simply staying awake because there is too much to finish can slowly become routine. But when poor sleep becomes a regular pattern, it can affect your heart…
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Eating for Every Beat: What a Heart-Healthy Indian Diet Actually Looks Like
Ask most people what a heart-healthy diet looks like, and they’ll picture something foreign. Quinoa. Avocado toast. Maybe a green juice. But mostly “not Indian food.” The gap is about how those foods are cooked, how much oil ends up in the kadhai, and how far the everyday plate has drifted from what it looked…
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Don’t Miss Your Walk: Why Daily Movement Matters and the Benefits of Walking
You planned to go for a walk in the evening. Then work ran late. You came home tired, had dinner, checked your phone for a while, and suddenly it was time for bed. You tell yourself, “I’ll walk tomorrow.” For many people, this happens more often than they realise. There may be no obvious problem…
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Stress and Heart Health: Can Stress Affect Your Heart?
Most people accept stress as an unavoidable part of modern life, particularly in India’s fast-paced urban centres. But there is a measurable cost to carrying chronic stress, and a significant portion of that cost is paid by the heart. A 2024 meta-analysis published in ScienceDirect, covering 33 studies and 43,641 participants, found that people with…
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Heart Disease in Young Adults in India: Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention
One in every five heart attack patients in India today is under the age of 40. A decade ago, that number was closer to one in ten. Heart disease was once considered uncommon among young adults and largely associated with older age. In India, that is no longer an accurate picture, and understanding why this…
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Top 10 Heart Healthy Foods You Should Include Daily
Most people know that what they eat can affect their heart health, but knowing which foods to eat and why they matter is a whole other story. There are a lot of things in stores that say they are “healthy,” and online nutrition advice often goes against itself. For someone who has high blood pressure,…
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When Should You Consult a Cardiologist?
It’s easy to forget about your health when you have to meet work deadlines, drive a long way to get to work, and do other things every day. You start to get used to missing workouts, eating at odd times, and being tired sometimes. But if you start to feel tired all the time or…
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Heart Health Month: Protecting the Modern Working Heart
Ravi sat at his desk, reviewing another spreadsheet before jumping into back-to-back meetings. He was 36, physically active on weekends, and ate reasonably well—but he felt stress build up over time. Across town, Priya, 38 and balancing work with family responsibilities, often skipped lunch and stayed up late to finish tasks. Both considered themselves “healthy,”…