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Calculate your heart rate? Know the recipe for heart

A heart rate is number of beats of your heart in a minute; generally adults have heart rate of 60-100 beats in a minute. Heart rate and pulse rate are not different things. You can get the heart rate by measuring your pulse.

Let’s check the pulse

On your left hand, find the tendon on radial artery (place where you wear the wrist watch, a place just below the thumb), place two fingers on it and count the beat for a minute. You can also count the beat for just 15 seconds and then multiply the number of beats by 4 thus getting the correct count of a minute. 

Checking the pulse

The innovative smart watch

With the touch screen interface, smart watch is another computer in our hand for most of our task, making call, sms, calculations, replying to mails, Bluetooth facilities for calls, songs etc. Also multiple health screening functions like checking blood pressure, heart rate, thermometers, SpO2 and also checks for workout calorie burn, pedometers.

Smart watch

Smart watch can calculate your heart in no time but have you ever questioned its accuracy? Or compared its heart rate results with your manual heart rate? It’s DIY for you to do and comment the difference below.

 Recipe for your heart health

Recipe is full of omega 3 and poly unsaturated fatty acids which supports the heart health, reduces risk of cardio-vascular disease.

Ingredients

1.      1 cup rolled oats (thin)

2.      1 tbsp finely chopped walnuts

3.      1 tbsp chpped almonds

4.      1 tbsp. roasted flax seeds

5.      2 tbsp sesame seeds

6.      2 tbsp. ghee

7.      2 tbsp. gur /gud / jaggery

8.      ½ tbsp. cardamom

9.      2 tbsp. low fat milk

Method

1.      Heat a broad non-stick pan, add oats and roast dry on a medium flame until little crispy. Keep it aside.

2.      Dry roast the sesame seeds until golden, keep it aside too.

3.      Heat the ghee (non-clarified butter) and cook the gur, allow it to melt.

4.      Cool down the melted gur in a dish; add roasted oats, sesame seeds and other dry fruits to it.

5.      Add the cardamom powder and milk & mix it well.

6.      Give the shape of laddos with the support of hands to this mixture.

7.      Divide them into small / big size laddos as you prefer.

You can prepare in bulk and store them, which becomes easy grab for evening snacks. For children laddos can be combined with a glass of milk.

 

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