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Monday, September 24, 2012

British Heart Foundation warns that severe heart failure can feel like drowning.

The British Heart Foundation is
currently warning that severe heart failure can feel like drowning, as is
reported in this BBC News article today. "There is no cure for heart failure, which can lead to extreme
exhaustion and breathlessness." The BHF is aiming to raise funds for its
Mending Broken Hearts Appeal: ""We aim to raise money to carry out basic
research into regenerative medicine. Stem cells could help by offering
therapeutic interventions."

The BHF is primarily a drug-oriented
charity (see Health Campaigning Charities), with a heavy emphasis on the controversial drug family of statins. It
always seems to me such a pity that they so rarely inform people that cutting
down on salt and salty food can bring about dramatic improvements in heart
health, e.g. helping with problems of breathlessness, reducing the size of an
enlarged heart, reducing the risk of developing high blood pressure, heart
disease and heart attack, as well as a host of other degenerative conditions,
including being overweight or obese. Salt reduction is particularly appropriate
for overweight that involves fluid retention. If you want to help people who
suffer from breathlessness, whether caused by heart problems or by asthma, or
simply by being overweight, you could do them a big favour by telling them of
the benefits that salt reduction can bring.

(I apologise for my typo in the title of this post. - It should say British Heart Foundation, not British Health Foundation.)