The Story of the Heart - Aastha Bariatrics

There once lived a heart, which worked everyday without any day offs. It had the trust in its owner to take care of it. The heart believed that the master would never hamper or take it for granted. Thus, the heart worked relentlessly out of respect. Even on the days when the master smoked or took loads of stress. The heart worked hard to provide nourishment to all the parts of the body.

When the heart was born, it knew the expectations from it. The ideal body weight of the human was known to the heart. When the body weight was fluctuating, the heart worked to provide nutrition to the growing weight. Though at times the heart was taken for granted, it continued to be loyal and sincere. At times the master of the heart was drunk, stressed, eating, smoking. The blood purification was neglected and the quality of blood was deteriorating.

There was fatty buildup, constant stress response of the body to control the harm. All this was disturbing the heart and it had to pump blood in spite of the obstruction in the arteries. Slowly and steadily the body weight of the master was increasing. The master was developing lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension, breathlessness. All of this was torturing the heart every single day. It started facing difficulties to work with complete efficiency. Arrhythmia, coronary heart diseases, hypertension. All these indicate the stress the heart started to face. This could have become life-threatening and the heart could have lost its life.

HOW COULD WE HAVE PREVENTED THIS?

With awareness and early action, anyone can prevent the above consequences. Increased body weight, alcohol, smoking, stress, sedentary lifestyle. All these are the factors that can lead to impairment of the heart.

Early management includes:

Rectifying sedentary lifestyle.
Inculcating healthy eating habits.
Going for regular health checkups.
Dealing with stress in a positive way.
Taking action on lifestyle diseases.
Maintaining a healthy body weight.
Not neglecting signs and symptoms of the body that reflect internal damage.
Having a good lipid profile.

These are just some ways to improve heart health. Further, we all should be aware of the common consequences of having a disrupted lifestyle.

Body weight is one of the major parameters to take care of, as and when the body weight increases the heart has to work extra hard to pump blood to the newer growing cells.

How to know you are having an appropriate body weight?

The tool to know your body weight status is BMI index (body mass index).

Dividing your weight in kg to height in metre square can provide you with your BMI.

BMI can help you take immediate action to rectify your body weight.

For the overweight category of people, diet and lifestyle correction can help in weight loss. The obese category of people needs additional help other than diet and lifestyle for weight loss. For anyone above the BMI of 30, bariatric surgery will be recommended. But as the BMI increases, the lifestyle co-morbidities start crawling up. Thus, bariatric surgery becomes the only plan of action. It is a life-saving surgery for people with co-morbidities like diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, etc. There are patients who experienced better control over their blood sugars, blood pressure, reproductive health post-bariatric surgery.

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