5 Surprising Foods that are Bad for your Health

One of the cheapest and easiest way to treat ourselves after a tiring day
is a sumptuous meal. A quarter pounder burger might fill in our cravings or that
double chocolate fudge sunday can chase your blues away. However, along with the
se
delicious foods is the undeniable fact that they contain high saturated fats and
sugar which could be bad for our health. Not only do they make us fat but they c
ould
be the primary precursors of diseases. With these high caloric foods comes the b
ad cholesterols.
If we have excesive consumption of cholesterol in our foods, our body might suff
er.
because we cannot control what we put in our mouth anymore, we need someone to p
roperly
prepare our meal for us. Meal planning services offered in Dignity Home Cares In
c., the leading non-medical home care in Farnam Street Omaha, NE
primarily serves clients of all kinds who would want to have their meal as healt
hy as possible.
We do not only cater to the sick but even to the healthy as well. The most effec
tive method of preserving our health is through
being conscious in the food that we eat.
In relation to food, we have listed down five of the surprising foods that are b
ad for your body.
1. Eggs
When it comes to cholesterol, the eggs are one of those that contains high level
s of cholesterol.
There was even a time when eggs are completely banned from your staple breakfast
food because
of its nutritional value. However, we cannot deny the health benefits that eggs
can give us as well, hence,
eggs are still sold in the market for consumption but should be taken in moderat
ion. Many nutritionist
recommend eggs as part of one's diet. You can still have your favorite poached o
r scrambled egg for breakfast, just do
not go beyond the recommended limit for it.
2. Ice cream
By now we must have already known how ice cream can be fattening. It does not on
ly contain fatty ingredients
but it has a lot of sugar too. Eating ice cream is part of our daily lives. It c
an be eaten as a dessert of just a simple snack.
But you should know that your favorite ice cream could be more fattening that yo
ur burger and sweeter than your doughnut.
Yes, that is right. It has twenty times more fatty ingredients and ten times mor
e sugar mixed in it. Perhaps you should
reconsider your favorite now?

3. Red Meat
Eating steak for dinner or having a generous serving of beef tenderloin might be
the best way to end your day.
But beware, a heavy dinner consist of protein and meat might not only get you fa
t but it could lead you to
high cholesterol as well. We suggest that you beeter think twice on your choice
for dinner. You can still have your steak
but make sure you only get a portion and not the whole cut.
4. Crackers and Cookies
You have your non-fattening crackers inside your bag in case you get hungry. Som
e people have a handy chocolate
chip cookie so they have something to munch on during that long train ride home.
When you read the nutritional
facts at the back of the wrapper of your favorite cookie, it might seem harmless
until you get to research more about it.
Crackers, cookies and chips are high in hydrogenated fats, whole eggs and whole
milk which are very rich in cholesterol.
But do not fret, you still can have these snacks but in moderation.
5. Bacon
The suggested daily value intake of cholesterol for humans is just 300 mg. This
is just the right amount for the body to burn and convert
energy. But if we constantly take in cholesterol higher than the recommended amo
unt, it could lead to serious health
problems. Bacon is not an exception to this. Our favorite bacon may not be that
unhealth because it is just meat. However, we must know that
100g of bacon is equal to 111mg of cholesterol. A high amount for such small gra
m of a product. Surely, we do not just eat one strip of bacon,
hence the more cholesterol we take in our body. The same is true for ham and sau
sages no matter how small the meat it contains.
Processed foods are just simply unhealthy.
We are familiar with the foods that we have mentioned above. In fact, we eat one
of them at least once a week.
By now, we have come to realize how unhealthy our meals have been in the past fe
w years. For the older ones,
their unhealthy diet might already have taken its toll while for the young ones,
they have not felt the effect
of their poor diet yet. At Dignity Home Cares Inc., we want you to be healthy an
d enjoy life. We have meal planning
services that could help you manage your diet. We do not deprive you of your fav
orite foods but we help you
control your cravings and learn to love the greens.
For more information about meal planning, please do visit us at Dignity Home Car
es Inc., in Omaha NE. You can
also visit our website at www.dignityhomecares.org or call us at 402-301-2766.

5 Essential Facts about ECG

Remember the feeling when you heard your doctor telling you about ECG? Perhaps y
ou were clueless that time about what ECG is.
Perhaps you had the feeling that there could be something serious happening insi
de your body or worse you might be
thinking that you are undergoing a complicated procedure. But, just relax. Getti
ng an ECG exam is not as painful and serious as you
think. Although this would help determine the condition of your heart but it doe
s nothing more than that. Whatever the results that
you get from it would be up to your doctor on how he would treat the findings.
The Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG)is type of procedure that records the electr
ical changes in the heart's impulses. It only aims
to help detect the condition of your heart. It helps your doctor determine wheth
er your heart has pumped blood too much or is working too hard
compared to its usual function. This is done through a certain machine called th
e Electrocardiogram. The question whether
it is used for determining whether a patient has cancer or not is out of the que
stion. Due to the need and efficiency of an
ECG, our experts at Dignity Home Care Inc., the primary provider of non-medical
home care in Farnam Street Omaha, NE, (check the website)

Today, on the blog, we will discuss some of the essential facts that you need to
know about ECG.
1. Measuring your heart impulses is one way of knowing your heart's health
Your doctor measures the intervals of your heart's impulses through ECG. Through
these impulses, they will be able
to determine whether your heart is overworked or is stressed out because of the
different substances that are blocking
the passageway of the blood. Undergoing an ECG exam can help you determine wheth
er you have any of the early symptoms
of the following types of heart damage:
-arrhythmia
-congenital heart defect
-heart valve disease
-pericarditis
-heart failure
Being able to detect symptoms of heart disease can help you treat them early bef
ore they get worse.
2. Electrocardiogram does not mean sending electricity to your heart
The ECG primarily uses a machine. Although the procedure involves the use elect
rodes but they do not electrocute
your or hurt you in anyway. The ECG machine solely meausres the electricity that
is already in your cardiovascular area.
The electrodes are simply attached to your chest to be used for the machine to d
o its job. The procedure will last for not more than ten minutes.
3. When is an ECG performed?
One of the common myths of ECG is that it is only needed for people who have can
cer. The moment we hear our doctor
telling us that we need to undergo ECG we hastily think that we are in serious t
rouble. In actuality, ECG is just a normal procedure
that is part of our annual physical exmaination or a requirement that our employ
er might want us to submit because it is related
to our work. This can also be performed if we constantly complain of chest pain,
shortness of breath or even dizziness.These
conditions are closely related to the functions of our respiratory system and th
e heart. And if we have a pending
surgery, and ECG is the best way to evaluate your condition whether you should c
ontinue the operation or not.
4. Limitations of ECG
The results of ECH are placed in a two-dimensional photo and may not readily pre
sent any pending heart complications
that are not caputed by the machine. Thus, it is possible that a person may alre
ady have an underlying heart complcations
but since these symptoms were not shown at the time she had ECG, then the result
s may not be able to show it. But this does not
mean that the person is already normal, they might have to go another exmaminati
on just to make sure.
At Dignity Home Care, Inc., we have the Electronic Caregiver Package that provid
es 24/7 access to EMT operators during emergency situations,
an update medication reminders, medical equipment to be used by the patient. In
addition to this, they will
also be provided with an ECG system that automatically self diagnoses the patien
t whenever required. This is an efficient
non-medical service that will give your loved ones the best home care that they
need.
For more questions, you can visit Dignity Home Care Inc., at Omaha, NE. You can
also visit our website at www.dignityhomecares.org
or call us at 402-401-2766.