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Vol. 58 No. 13 • October 4, 2016 • Pages 8 From the President’s Desk t was great to see Matters of the Heart! a large number of s a fellow prevalence of heart IRotarians turn up Rotarian, Dr. diseases, and is for the annual Table Aashish Con- the #1 killer not Tennis Tournament A held at the YMCA, tractor needs no just for men, but last Sunday. It introduction. We are also for women. In was an exciting all aware (rather we fact, heart diseases morning with lots ought to know!) that kill women more of fellowship. Kudos to Jamshyd, Moy, he heads the Rehab then all cancers Sanjiv and the Sports Committee for a and Sports Medi- put together. It’s well-organized event! cine Dept. at Sir H N something we It was a pleasure to receive Dr. Philip J. Reliance Foundation need to be worried Silvers from Arizona, USA as our special Hospital, and that he about. Statistically guest. Timing it well with the World Heart is the Vice-Chairman speaking, one out Day, Dr. Aashish Contractor gave us a of the International of three people, very helpful talk on how to prevent heart Council of Cardio- will die of a heart ailments. With it, I’m sure that we will vascular Prevention disease, and that’s have more healthy Rotarians in our Club. and Rehabilitation, across the country!” Rtn Dr. Aashish Contractor, HOD, Thank you Satyan for hosting a well- as well as the Cer- tification Director Rehab and Sport Medicine, Sir H. N Reliance “Also with the received mini fellowship. Foundation Hospital of the American so-called modern The In Camera fellowship on hair at Dr. College of Sports Medicine in India. diseases that affect us today, India Akshay Batra’s residence was a great However, what we didn’t know was his is facing, what is known as a double success. I would like to extend thanks to pragmatic approach towards reducing whammy. While on one hand, we still Farah and Akshay for their hospitality, and incidence of heart ailments, and the lu- have people dying of infectious diseas- congratulations to Rekha for yet another cid manner in which he dealt with the es such as Tuberculosis, Cholera and successful event. I am sure, many more Rotarians will have their hair on their head. subject, which made last Tuesday’s talk Diarrhea that are easily preventable; a compelling and informative one. on the other, we are also getting affect- Our Club is now gearing up for the ed by chronic diseases like cardiovas- Diabetes Checkup Camps on the 9th “Heart disease is the leading cause of cular diseases, cancer, diabetes, etc.” October. We would appreciate if more death worldwide, and even in India. Rotarians could volunteer as help is As per WHO, India has the highest “So what do we do about it? I would required on ground. Today’s Meeting Mr. Shailesh Gandhi, Activist - Future of RTI In this Issue Forthcoming Events • Oct 11, 2016 Dussera - No Weekly Meeting Matters Of The Heart! 2 • Oct 18, 2016 Mr. Sudheendra Kulkarni, Politician, Columnist & Head of 2016 Table Tennis Tournament 4 Observer Research Foundation - ‘Good Governance Reforms In Camera Fellowship with - Need of the hour’ Dr. Akshay Batra 5 - Joint meeting with RC of Mumbai Central • Oct 25, 2016 Diwali Nite - Celebrations at M. V. M. Banquet: 7:00 p.m. onwards Assimilation Mini Fellowship 7 - No afternoon meeting Next Week’s Speaker 8 • Nov 01, 2016 Diwali - No weekly meeting THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY OctOBER 4, 2016 1 Next: President Dr. Mukesh Batra with Dr. Indumati Gopinathan. Left: President Dr. Mukesh Batra exchanging the RCB flag with PRID Dr. Philip J Silvers of Arizona, USA. Dr. Silvers who is the Chairperson of Cadre of Technical Advisors 2014-17, is here for the Rotary 3141’s 100 Free Diabetes Checkup Camps across. like to explain four important aspects BENEFITS OF EXERCISING of heart health, i.e., how the heart • Reduces the risk of heart disease by 40%. works, what is a heart attack, what are • Lowers the risk of stroke by 27%. the risk factors that can cause it, and • Reduces the incidence of diabetes by almost 50%. what are some of the changes that can • Reduces the incidence of high blood pressure, by almost 50%. be made to prevent it from happen- • Can reduce mortality and the risk of recurrent breast cancer by almost 50%. • Can lower the risk of colon cancer by over 50%. ing. When we talk about prevention, • Can reduce the risk of developing of Alzheimer’s disease by one-third. it works in two ways: 1) Preventing the disease from happening, which is THE TRADITIONAL ‘EXERCISE Prescription’ known as primary prevention, and 2) Consistently engage in the following: • Moderate Exercise – 150 minutes per week (i.e. 30mins x 5 days), OR If by chance, you’ve already suffered, • Vigorous Exercise – 75 minutes per week (i.e. 15mins x 5 days), OR then to prevent it from happening the • An equivalent combination of the two second time. That is known as second- • Muscle strengthening activities involving all major muscle groups to be performed 2 or ary prevention. And what you need to more days a week do for both, is actually is similar.” THE NEW APPROACH: SNEAK IN MOVEMENT Don’t Sit When You Can Stand “Did you know, a heart beats 2.5-3 • Break up long periods of sitting – move every 20-30 minutes billion times through out an average • Try a sit-stand routine at work life span, and for that it requires its own Don’t Stand When You Can Walk blood supply. So while the heart sup- • Walk at leisurely pace when you are on the phone plies blood to the entire body (in fact it • 10,000 steps per day on pedometer could be called your muscular pump), Don’t Take The Lift When You Can Climb it requires blood supply for its own • Benefits with as little as climbing two flights at a time • Set a goal (15-20 flights/day), keep track, increase over time functioning, which comes from arteries known as Coronary Arteries. These break in (sort of like an erupting volca- arm. Now that’s a very classic textbook Coronary Arteries, three of which are no) and that leads to a heart attack.” definition. Unfortunately, that happens most important, are the right coronary in only 20% of the cases. Therefore, a artery, left circumflex, and the left anteri- “So often we hear people saying that simple way of describing it is that, any or descending. These supply blood to they had an Angiography and found discomfort from your navel to your the heart muscles and they run on the blockages in two or three arteries, one nose that includes your jaws, shoulders surface of your heart. And when you a 60% and other a 70%. So there are or back, especially if it’s related to ex- have a blockage, it doesn’t happen in chances that a 70% blockage can break ertion, which means if you walk or run the heart, but inside the arteries, which and cause a heart attack, while a 90% it increases, and if you sit or lie down supply blood to your heart.” may not! Therefore, the key is to pre- it becomes less. If that’s the nature of vent that plague from rupturing, and if pain, then it can very well be related “So when does a heart attack take you manage to do that then you have to the heart unless proven otherwise. place? We are all born with pristine essentially reversed the heart disease.” There will be times, when you may mis- clear arteries. Over time blockages take it as gas, however, it is better to get build up and get to a point where they “How do you know? What are the warn- yourself checked. If it’s gas you might start obstructing the blood supply. And ing signs? You may have heard of the have wasted couple of hours and some when that happens, at some point, the word Angina, or pain in the left side of money, but if it is heart related, then growth of the plaque or the blockages, the chest and going down to your left you would have saved your life.” 2 OCTOBER 4, 2016 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY “Speaking of risk factors, they can then 200, your Triglycerides (which Take a look at the Benefits of Regular be any factor, which when present is the fat in your blood) should be Exercising Chart on Pg2. So this is one increases the chances of a disease less then 150, LDL (is the bad choles- drug which can do all this and it’s not taking place. So, what are the risk terol) should be less than 100, and very expensive, all you need is a pair factors causing the heart diseases? HDL (which is the good Cholesterol) of shoes. In fact, nowadays the trend is What causes a heart attack? Let’s run should ideally be more then 40. towards bare foot running, so all you through them one by one: 6) Diabetes – Ideally, your sugar level need is a pair of legs. So my question 1) Age – As you age, your chances should be less than 100 in a fasting is what’s your excuse!” of all the chronic diseases goes up. state and up to 120 post a meal. Any- Typically if you want to define the cut thing above 126 is diabetes.

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