Healthcare Opportunity

With an optimistic approach, a book proposes an alternative healthy lifestyle, but pleasant. It was created by the director of the Hypertension Center Hospital Universitario Austral (HUA), Carol Kotliar, along with professionals from different disciplines.

In Argentina there are 7 million hypertensives. Only half knows about the problem and, worse still, 1 million and half receive treatment. In total, some 870 000 have reached a controlled pressure.

“Every individual is born with a genetic identity that gives some protection or strengths and some weaknesses or vulnerabilities in health and disease.” But it is vulnerable on the ground where we work to improve the lifestyle, said Dr. Carol Kotliar.

“Our habits are the keys that allow or prevent manifest cardiovascular disease,” he said.

Kotliar is director of the Hypertension Center, Hospital Universitario Austral (HUA) and creative, along with Dr. Sergio Volman and licensed nutritionist Maria Emilia Mazzei, the manual handling of high blood pressure healthy. The book, aimed at both healthy and sick people of all ages, it develops in 152 pages what to do to live healthier, so as to control the pressure.

“These are basic guidelines of what is known as lifestyle medicine, summarized Kotliar. Our goal is to provide education for people with hypertension and promote a healthy lifestyle. ”

Food is the highlight of the book. Apply a “family care plan health”, with a diet for 15 days. The two most original, according Kotliar, is that it includes a table unpublished sodium content in foods 4 000, which targets those who are following a strict diet, and each recipe of the day contains the table of calories. It also describes the effects on the pressure of daily meals and the positive aspects of the meat, coffee, wine, among others.

Physical activity and stress management are important topics of the manual. In addition, there are practical tips (how to measure blood pressure outside the office) and answers to common questions, such as My children are hypertensive? Is there a cure hypertension? Should I eliminate the salt? What if I have high blood pressure during pregnancy?

In each chapter attended by professionals from different disciplines who are pursuing the Master of Hypertension offered by the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Austral University.

The first edition will be sold in the HUA or custom, through the website of the institution: www.hospitalaustral.edu.ar

The DASH diet

Having high blood pressure involves reducing sodium intake, fat and calories, which for many is a daunting challenge. Therefore, the manual focuses on what you can eat, the pleasures that can be a person with this problem. “We told him what to add to that a diet is rich, attractive and healthy. What is best to eat to prevent atherosclerosis and lower blood pressure as if it were a drug, and ideas for seasoning without salt, among others, “Kotliar forward.

At the base of the food plan guides are the “DASH” (in Castilian: “Approaches to reduce hypertension food”).

Besides helping to reduce pressure without medication, the DASH plan is a way of life-power, highly beneficial, recommended by the Argentina Society of Hypertension and the American Heart Association. It can adapt to the caloric needs of each person and, unlike other diets, food does not contain strange or difficult to obtain. It’s an easy plan, low in saturated fat, cholesterol and total fat. Its pillars are fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, milk and dairy fat or nonfat. Include foods rich in vitamins and minerals such as calcium, potassium and magnesium.

Changing habits is to Kotliar, “the hardest.” “Starting with physical activity, changing grocery shopping … Begin to understand that it is not one to change, but change the whole family.” Still, says society today “has more conscience” and perceived a “return to nature”.

“The world is changing the image of a happy life, which is no longer the man smoking and drinking whiskey while watching TV, but of an active and healthy,” he said.