Saturday, July 6, 2013

These 4 Things Happen Right Before a Heart Attack

These 4 Things Happen Right Before a Heart Attack
By S.A. Nickerson
Every year, approximately 785,000 Americans suffer a first heart attack. And 470,000 who've already had one or more heart attacks have another one. The scary thing is that 25 percent of ALL heart attacks happen "silently," without clear or obvious symptoms.
Even when symptoms occur, they can be so mild or vague, most people don't even realize it's heart-related (unless they are made aware). Four things in particular are the most sinister signs of a silent heart attack.
These four things are the focus of a recent video presentation by renowned cardiovascular expert Dr. Chauncey Crandall: 4 Things You'll Feel Right Before a Heart Attack: A Special Newsmax Heart Health Report.
According to Dr. Crandall, the reason silent heart attacks go untreated is because people don't even notice the symptoms, so he created a special video presentation to show the four things to look for that may be a silent warning — before it's too late to intervene and survive the damage.
4 Things You'll Feel Right Before a Heart Attack: A Special Newsmax Heart Health Report.
Timing is the most critical factor for survival. Statistics show a clear link between delay in treatment and disability or death — the amount of time that elapses between the first sign of symptoms and receiving care.
That's why knowing what to look for in terms of symptoms is critical, especially when they're the kind that most people don't think to associate with a heart attack — like the four things in Dr. Crandall's video, 4 Things You'll Feel Right Before a Heart Attack: A Special Newsmax Heart Health Report.
Originally developed as an educational tool, this video quickly went viral, surpassing five million viewers in just a few short months.
Newsmax Health Publisher Travis Davis attributes the viral sensation to the fact that the content hits close to home for so many Americans. According to Davis, "Dr. Crandall tells the real-life story of a 'widow-maker' heart attack that did not have to happen. It's scary but eye-opening, because he outlines what could have been done to actually prevent this."
Dr. Crandall, chief of the cardiac transplant program at the esteemed Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Florida, practices on the front lines of interventional, vascular, and transplant cardiology. Years of experience have afforded him the chance to detect little-known warning signs and symptoms like the four he addresses.
"I think the real value in this presentation is the number of simple strategies he outlines to help prevent heart disease," says Davis, "strategies that many doctors just don't take the time to discuss with patients until they're already showing obvious symptoms of cardiovascular stress."
Editor's Note: For a limited time, Newsmax Health is making 4 Things You'll Feel Right Before a Heart Attack: A Special Newsmax Heart Health Report. available at no charge. Click here to see the four things that happen before a heart attack.
 

Who's at Fault When a Tour Company Offers Handicapped Disney "Guides"?

Who's at Fault When a Tour Company Offers Handicapped Disney "Guides"?

There's a new secret way to cut the lines at Disney, but it involves a serious moral sacrifice. The NY Post reports that a wealthy set of visitors has been hiring disabled "tour guides" to accompany their families to the Orlando theme park, affording them access to handicapped entrances, thereby bypassing the lines for rides. The tour company, called Dream Tours Florida, was uncovered by Dr. Wednesday Martin, a social anthropologist who discovered the disturbing trend while researching her book, Primates of Park Avenue. "It's insider knowledge that very few have and share carefully," Martin said. Apparently, you need a referral to even get through to the business, as Dream Tours' number is unlisted. Disney allows each wheelchair or scooter-bound visitor to bring up to six guests to an accessible entrance for each attraction. A woman who employed Dream Tours' services told the Postthat she hired a guide to accompany her family of four through the park in a motorized scooter with a "handicap" sign on it, and the group received special access throughout the park. We're pretty sure that we can all agree that this practice is reprehensible, but whom do you think is most at fault? Sound off!

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

What to Make of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack

What to Make of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack

Photo: Flickr/ PanARMENIAN_Photo
Photo: Flickr/ PanARMENIAN_Photo
It appears the Syrians have spectacularly upped the ante by using chemical weapons. In the coming days, we’ll learn more about the attack – who did it, under whose authority, how extensive the attack was, and how much damage it has done. But any use of weapons of mass destruction – which chemical weapons are considered to be and the use of which has been specifically outlawed and taboo since the early 20th century – is an escalation the significance of which simply can’t be overstated. That it was done the day before the President of the United States visits the region is, well, also kind of a big deal.
The apparent chemical weapons attack in Aleppo – the Israeli press is reporting it as a fact confirmed by unnamed Israeli sources while the White House responded with more caution – will change things. There will now be overwhelming international pressure for direct action against the Syrian regime. Whether that action will take the form of a no-fly zone (which was already being seriously discussed) or some kind of bombing campaign as we saw in Libya, time will tell.
The brutality of this attack also shouldn’t be forgotten. One of the few horrors of war that has been largely off the table for the last near-century has been chemical attack. Since the nerve gas warfare of World War I, regimes that use chemical weapons, like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War in the ‘80s and against his own Kurdish population, have been ostracized and alienated – untouchable even among rogue nations. That Assad’s regime has resorted to these weapons is a sign either that they are totally desperate or have completely lost control of their commanders. Or both.
Lastly, what is Israel to make of an out-of-control, teetering regime on its northern border suddenly resorting to chemical weapons use? No doubt, the IDF will be prepared for a very significant response should chemical weapons fall on Israel.
The last 24 hours have brought us an even more dangerous world than we had before. It’s always a good time to pray – but this is an especially good time.

Monday, July 1, 2013

It’s time for Iceland to pay a price for its illegal whale hunt.

Dear Jenni,

It’s time for Iceland to pay a price for its illegal whale hunt. Stop Iceland’s Illegal Whaling

Iceland has just resumed illegal whaling -- and could kill up to 184 endangered fin whales this season alone. Please make an urgent donation to help NRDC win economic sanctions and stop the slaughter of whales for profit!
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Icelandic whalers have killed and butchered 15 fin whales in the last month. Tragically, they will not be the last.

After a two-year hiatus, that nation has resumed its illegal whale hunt and announced plans to kill up to 184 fin whales this season alone.

Please make an emergency donation so that NRDC can fight for urgently-needed economic sanctions and protect these endangered creatures from senseless slaughter.

Your gift will help us mobilize a public outcry and launch a media campaign that calls on President Obama to make Iceland pay a price -- at long last -- for its years of illegal whaling.

Those sanctions must be targeted at companies with ties to Iceland’s whaling industry: the seafood, shipping and retail businesses that drive the demand and trade in whale meat.

History has proven that nothing less than economic sanctions will get Iceland’s attention.

In 2011, in response to pressure from activists like you, President Obama imposed diplomatic sanctions on Iceland for its hunting of fin whales.

But Iceland just thumbed its nose at those measures and has gone back to business as usual, killing magnificent and endangered whales.

Enough is enough. We must ratchet up the pressure right now. But we need your help.

Your support will enable us to generate public pressure on the White House ... expose the truth about Iceland’s illegal whaling in the media ... and make the strongest possible case for tough trade sanctions -- all aimed at forcing Iceland to call off its whale hunt for good.

With your help we will defend whales and our environment in the most effective way possible.

The next fin whale could be killed at any time. We’re counting on Members like you -- people who care deeply about protecting whales -- to join us in coming to their defense. Please let me know you will help. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Frances
Frances Beinecke
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A Light Fails in Egypt

A Light Fails in Egypt

Morsi-RallyHere at SFI, we warned more than a year ago that Egypt had big problems that required big solutions that the Muslim Brotherhood government wasn’t up to the task of delivering. Walter Russell Mead, writing at his blog on the website of The American Interest, spells out just how serious the situation is and what the immediate future looks like.
Inexperienced 18 years olds who have grown up in corrupt, poorly governed societies, and been educated in trashy schools by incompetent hacks know very well that the status quo is unacceptable. Young people who know they are being ripped off and abused are typically not very patient. Throw in healthy doses of sexual frustration and contempt for an establishment that has lost confidence in its own capacity to lead, and you have a cocktail much more explosive than anything Molotov knew.

Author: Stand For Israel | July 1, 2013

Morsi Isn’t Going Anywhere Without a Fight

Morsi Isn’t Going Anywhere Without a Fight

Mohammed_MorsiWith four dead in ongoing protests against the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt, Ariel Ben Solomon of the Jerusalem Post writes that Westerners shouldn’t get too excited or upset just yet – odds are strong that Mohammed Morsi and his Islamist fellow travelers aren’t going anywhere.  At least not anytime soon.
But from reports, it seems that the Egyptian president remains defiant despite the crisis. The Muslim Brotherhood organization is described by analysts as being “pragmatic,” but the government’s behavior since coming to power seems to be more like a play for power at all costs, than any reasonableness.

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