Heart-Healthy Tips

Health experts recommend the following heart-healthy tips:

• Diet: Consume at least five daily servings of fruit and vegetables; limit consumption of fried and fatty foods; buy lean, low-fat protein; and choose lower-fat and whole grain foods.
• Exercise: Get at least 20-30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise five days a week (150 minutes weekly). That activity should be strenuous enough to increase your heart rate and make you break a sweat, but light enough that you can carry on a conversation.
• Stress: Look for ways to lower your stress level through exercise, relaxation techniques, Yoga, swimming, or other activities.

Critical Illnesses

A total of 36 critical illnesses are covered:

1. AIDS due to a blood transfusion or full blown AIDS
2. Aplastic anaemia
3. Apallic syndrome
4. Alzheimer’s disease
5. Benign brain tumour
6. Blindness
7. Brain surgery
8. Cancer
9. Cardiomyopathy
10. Chronic liver disease
11. Chronic lung disease
12. Coma
13. Coronary artery disease including Angioplasty and
other invasive treatments for coronary artery disease
14. Deafness
15. Encephalitis
16. Fulminant viral hepatitis
17. Heart attack
18. Heart valve replacement
19. Kidney failure
20. Loss of independent existence
21. Loss of speech
22. Major burns
23. Major head trauma
24. Major organ transplant
25. Medullary cystic disease
26. Meningitis
27. Motor neurone disease
28. Multiple sclerosis
29. Muscular dystrophy
30. Paralysis
31. Parkinson’s disease
32. Poliomyelitis
33. Primary pulmonary arterial hypertension
34. Stroke
35. Surgery to the aorta
36. Systemic lupus erythematosus lupus nephritis