2024-03-25 09:56:00
On March 23, 2024, staff from the American Heart Association measured the blood pressure of citizens. (Guo Xiaohui/The Epoch Times)
[The Epoch Times, March 25, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Guo Xiaohui in Shanjing City) On March 23 (last Saturday), the American Heart Association held a meeting at the El Camino Healthcare District ( El Camino Healthcare District holds health talks.
Dozens of citizens came to participate. There are booths on site providing free blood pressure and blood oxygen measurement services, as well as medical consultation. Four team leaders from the American Heart Association gave explanations respectively. They emphasized the importance of regularly measuring blood pressure and preventing heart disease through healthy diet and moderate exercise. At the same time, they also introduced the content and purpose of this health lecture, encouraging everyone to actively participate and jointly pay attention to and maintain heart health.
Host and lecturer Sofia explained the causes and prevention methods of heart disease in detail with vivid language and diagrams. She explains how factors such as poor diet, lack of exercise, high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high cholesterol can affect heart health. Effective preventive measures are provided, such as diet control, regular exercise, maintaining a healthy weight and regular check-ups.
Padmaja Vasireddy, director of the American Heart Association, said that they have held health lectures on improving and preventing heart disease for eight consecutive years.
She emphasized that controlling and improving blood pressure is very important to prevent early diabetes and hypertension, and pointed out that a 10% reduction in blood pressure can reduce the probability of early diabetes by 5%. She added that many citizens expressed gratitude for the events they held.
On March 23, 2024, a lecturer from the American Heart Association was giving a lecture. (Guo Xiaohui/The Epoch Times)
The American Heart Association will host the following events in the near future:
• Healthy Eating and Tai Chi Exercise on April 20, 2024
• May 18, 2024 Stress Management and Stroke First Aid and Tai Chi Exercise
• June 15, 2024 Mental Health A1C Blood Glucose Measurement.
The “Chinese Health Promotion Program” has a booth on site. This program is the first and only department established by a hospital in the South Bay of Silicon Valley to specifically serve the Chinese population. With the purpose of promoting the physical and mental health of the Chinese people, we bring professional medical knowledge into the Chinese community in Chinese, and cooperate with various departments within the hospital to provide Chinese people with services suitable for their language and cultural habits.
Health resources provided by the program include:
A list of 120 Chinese-speaking doctors in the South Bay can be downloaded from the Chinese-speaking Doctors Network: www.elcaminohealth.org/CHIPhsicianNryeork
Mental Health Gas Station:
www.elcaminohealth.org/chi-emotional-wellbeing ◇
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