http://www.natural-holistic-health.com Learn how to keep you and your family healthy safely and holistically. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:02:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/treatment-for-congestive-heart-failure/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/treatment-for-congestive-heart-failure/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:21:13 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/treatment-for-congestive-heart-failure/ Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart can’t pump enough blood to the body’s organs to supply oxygen and nutrients necessary to sustain life. This condition can result from a number of diseases or illnesses including coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, cardiomyopathy, infection of the heart muscle and heart valve disease. Although the heart continues to work it isn’t as efficient or effective as it should be which results in a number of different symptoms including shortness of breath, fatigue, fluid build up in the ankles, ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/treatment-for-congestive-heart-failure/feed/ 0 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/exercises-high-blood-pressure-congestive-heart-failure/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/exercises-high-blood-pressure-congestive-heart-failure/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:47:09 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/exercises-with-high-blood-pressure-and-congestive-heart-failure/ Statistical updates from the American Heart Association in 2005 reported that 65 million Americans have high blood pressure and nearly 5 million are suffering from congestive heart failure. Statistics have also shown that as many as 75% of patients will die within eight years of the diagnosis of congestive heart failure. In the past physicians have struggled with the question of exercise with individuals who suffer from congestive heart failure. The question relates to improving the prognosis versus further demand on an already overstressed heart. Tentative results from ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/exercises-high-blood-pressure-congestive-heart-failure/feed/ 0 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/what-is-congestive-heart-failure/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/what-is-congestive-heart-failure/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:53:12 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/what-is-congestive-heart-failure/ Congestive heart failure, otherwise known as CHF, is a condition in which the heart function is inadequate. The function of the heart is to pump and deliver oxygen contained in the blood to the remainder of the body. When individuals suffer from congestive heart failure the strength of the heart muscle has been compromised and they are no longer able to pump blood effectively and efficiently around the body. In order to have a good understanding of congestive heart failure it helps to know how the heart works. ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/what-is-congestive-heart-failure/feed/ 0 http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/symptoms-of-congestive-heart-failure/ http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/symptoms-of-congestive-heart-failure/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:41:43 +0000 Dee http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/symptoms-of-congestive-heart-failure/ Congestive heart failure (CHF) is usually a chronic disease that begins insidiously when the heart muscle is damaged by disease or illness. At other times the symptoms of heart failure can begin suddenly. There are diseases that can weaken the heart muscle, such as hypertension or high blood pressure, diseases that cause the heart muscle to stiffen or diseases that increase the demand for oxygen by the tissue that overloads the work of the heart muscle. The heart muscle isn’t able to keep up with the work required and blood backs ...]]> http://www.natural-holistic-health.com/symptoms-of-congestive-heart-failure/feed/ 0