Thursday, October 10, 2013

HEART ATTACKS AND WATER - Remember that "Life is a one-time gift"

 
We thought this was quite interesting and wanted to pass along… hope it helps someone!
HEART ATTACKS AND WATER !
How many folks do you know who say they don't want to drink anything before going to bed because they'll have to get up during the night.
Heart Attack and Water - I never knew all of this! Interesting.......
Something else I didn't know ... I asked my Doctor why people need to urinate so much at night time. Answer from my Cardiac Doctor - Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc.) seeks level with the kidneys, it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier. This then ties in with the last statement!

I knew you need your minimum water to help flush the toxins out of your body, but this was news to me. Correct time to drink water...
Very Important. From A Cardiac Specialist!

Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body
2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs
1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion
1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure
1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack

I can also add to this... My Physician told me that water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.

Mayo Clinic Aspirin Dr. Virend Somers, is a Cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic, who is lead author of the report in the July 29, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 A.M. and noon. Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened. Somers and his colleagues have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnea is to blame.

1. If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night.
The reason: Aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life"; therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the Aspirin would be strongest in your system.

2. FYI, Aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest, for years, (when it gets old, it smells like vinegar).

Please read on...
Something that we can do to help ourselves - nice to know. Bayer is making crystal aspirin to dissolve instantly on the tongue.
They work much faster than the tablets.

Why keep Aspirin by your bedside? It's about Heart Attacks.
There are other symptoms of a heart attack, besides the pain on the left arm. One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating; however, these symptoms may also occur less frequently.

Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.
The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.

If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth and swallow them with a bit of water.

Afterwards: - Call 911. - Phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by.- Say "heart attack!" - Say that you have taken 2 Aspirins.
Take a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door, and wait for their arrival and ...DO NOT LIE DOWN!

A Cardiologist has stated that if each person after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably one life could be saved! Don't forget to share. It may save lives!
"Life is a one-time gift"

Friday, January 4, 2013

Book Club 2012

Here is a list of the books we have read during 2012 - Many good reads... You should check them out!

  1. Left to Tell
  2. Sarah's Key
  3. A Walk To Remember
  4. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
  5. The Glass Castle
  6. Half-Broke Horses
  7. Night Circus
  8. First They Killed My Father
  9. Heaven is Here
  10. Follow the River
  11. Girl in Translation
  12. Fahrenheit 451

Devils Food Cake with Seafoam Frosting

Devils Food Cake

2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teasoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 teasoon vanilla
3 egg yolks
1 1/3 cups cold water
3 egg whites
3/4 cup sugar

Grease 2 9x1-1/2 in round pans (mine are 8x1-1/2 and that worked). Stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. In large mixer bowl, beat the shortening on medium speed about 30 seconds. Add 1 C sugar and vanilla and beat till fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating on medium speed for 1 minute after each. Add dry ingrediaents and water alternately to beaten mixture, beating on low speed after each addition till just combined.

Thoroughly wash the beaters. In small mixing bowl beat egg whites till soft peaks form. Gradually add the 3/4 C sugar, beating till stiff peaks form. Fold egg white mixture into batter. Combine well. Turn batter into prepared pans. Spread batter evenly. Bake 350 for 30 to 35 minutes or till cake tests done. Cool 10 minutes on wire racks. Remove from pands; cool thoroughly on racks. Frost with seafoam frosting, then drizzle with chocolate sauce (below)
1 square (1once) unsweetened chocolate
1/2 teaspoon shortening
Melt chocolate with the 1/2 teasoopn shortening to drizzle around the edge of frosted cake.


Seafoam Frosting
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1/4 cup cold water
2 egg whites
2 teaspoons light corn syrup or 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon vanilla
In the top of a double boiler combine sugar, cold water, egg whites, corm syrup or cream of tartar, and a dash of salt. Beat 30 seconds on low speed. Place over boiling water (upper pan should not touch water). Cook about 7 minutes while beating constantly on hight speed with electric mixer or till frosting forms stiff peaks. Remove from heat; add vanilla. Beat 2 to 3 minutes or till of spreading consistency. Frosts tops and sides of two 8 or 9 -inch layers or one 10-inch tube cake.
Share with family or friends :-) Enjoy!