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Is It a Heart Attack?

ast January, Lisa Morrow's 88-year-old grandmother woke her at 3 a.m. complaining of back and shoulder pain and feeling clammy. The two debated what to do for nearly two hours. "I thought it was the flu," says Morrow, a 38-year-old New Yorker. Finally, Morrow convinced her grandmother to go to the ER. Doctors quickly diagnosed a heart attack and put in four stents to open up a fully clogged artery. The surgery helped, briefly, but the attack had weakened the heart muscle so much that it perforated several hours later. Sadly, Morrow's grandmother did not survive.

"A heart attack was the last thing on my mind," says Morrow. Indeed, a recent study reveals that while 92 percent of adults know the most obvious sign of a heart attack -- chest pain -- only 31 percent know all five major signs, reports lead author of the study, Jing Fang, M.D., epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.

Diary of a New Homemaker
for Monday, May 19, 2008

Dancing with the Stars finale

You KNOW how I am about Dancing with the Stars. Kristi totally pwned the boys tonight, though, you know, I am so not sad Jason and Cristian made it to the finals. Holy cats, them are two gorgeous men, and I could look at them a lot longer than these last few weeks. But Kristi deserves it, completely and utterly. She is shorter than they are and still stood head and shoulders over them all.

Go Kristi!

A Seasonal Taste:

Grow a Harvest Basket

s a gardener, I really enjoy making decorations from my homegrown produce. One of the things I'm particularly fond of is growing miniatures, like miniature pumpkins and miniature Indian corn. Once I've grown them, I make them into Harvest Baskets, like the one illustrated.

A Taste of the Healthy Living Section:

Food and Stress

: My best friend tells me to drink a cup of chamomile tea when I'm stressed.  Does it really help?  Do any foods (other than a pint of Ben & Jerry's) help to relieve stress?

: Yes, it's true, certain foods can help to relieve stress. So-called "comfort foods," typically carbohydrate-rich sweets and breads, can raise serotonin levels, similar to the action of many popular antidepressants.

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