South Asians are becoming painfully aware of the high incidence of heart attacks, often fatal, frequently among seemingly healthy, trim, and physically active close family & friends.
The South Asian Heart Center (SAHC) at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California has developed a four-pronged approach to prevent and successfully manage heart disease among men and women of South Asian descent living and working in America. Here is an introduction to their work presented by Executive Director Ashish Mathur, and SAHC Medical Director Cesar Molina, MD, FACC: South Asian Heart Center Helps South Asians Fight Heart Disease.
In this fourth of a four-part series on Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Dr. Molina focuses on the importance of deep rest and its effect on heart-health and diabetes. He specifically covers the importance of meditation (or restful alertness) on longevity and health, and the science behind the effective technique of Transcendental Meditation (TM), which produces a “hypo-metabolic state of restful alertness.” Learn the evidence on the profound impact of this unique form of meditation on a whole class of chronic ailments. This is a very clear and comprehensive presentation!
South Asian Heart Center Webinar: TLC – Restful Sleep & Restful Alertness April 25, 2012, published on Apr 26, 2012 by sahcsathi.
At 26:26 of Part 4, Dr. César Molina begins talking about resting while awake with Transcendental Meditation and how it impacts our health, especially for South Asians and their propensity toward heart disease. One of the therapeutic modalities from the South Asian Heart Center is Transcendental Meditation as a stress-reduction technique. Dr. Molina reviews his talk starting at 56:18. He summarizes the lifestyle methodology to prevent heart disease and enhance longevity at the South Asian Heart Center: nutrition, physical activity, the importance of restful sleep, and the importance and benefit for stress reduction through Transcendental Meditation decreasing cardiovascular risk factors, decreasing hospital expenditures and admissions, and enhancing longevity.
Dr. César Molina presents Wednesday Lunch-hour Webinar Series TLC: Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes. Here are the 4 topics where you can download the video and a PDF of the main points and graphs for each talk. The recommendations can be applied to all Americans regardless of ethnicity or geographical location.
1. TLC: Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Overview: May 2, noon
2. TLC: Exercise as Medicine: May 9, noon
3. TLC: The Dinner vs. the Diner: May 30, noon
4. TLC: Restful Sleep and Restful Alertness: June 20, noon
For more information: www.southasianheartcenter.org and www.tm.org.
Tags: dietary changes, exercise as medicine, health, heart attack, heart disease, lifestyle, medicine, meditation, mental health, mission, research, restful alertness, restful sleep, risk, Science, South Asian, stress reduction technique, therapeutic lifestyle changes, TM, Transcendental Meditation
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May 27, 2013 at 10:37 pm |
[…] – At Tassajara, we shared of a couple of meals with Dr. César Molina, a cardiologist and the Medical Director of the South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California. He has developed a four-pronged approach to prevent and successfully manage heart disease among men and women of South Asian descent. A link to one of his presentations discussing the scientific basis for using transcendental meditation in the treatment of heart disease can be found here. […]
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May 28, 2013 at 12:17 pm |
Thanks for your link, Kate. Love your Tiny House blog! Our students have been learning to build tiny houses too. You may enjoy seeing this article http://wp.me/pD0BA-7wj and TV news report http://wp.me/pD0BA-7vX on the last course. Heather Caldwell http://tinyhouselivingorg.blogspot.com/ who’s going to live in it with her 2 kids, 4 cats and a dog for a year would love to discover what you’re sharing. Here’s an article on the first course http://bit.ly/153RLVy.
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