Heart Flutters

Open Question: heart murmurs / palpitations or chest muscle spasms?

June 23rd, 2009 | by admin | Open Question: heart murmurs / palpitations or chest muscle spasms?
I’m 16 years old, 17 in 5 days. Since I was 13 or so I have had a slight murmuring feeling in my chest only every so often, like once a year I would feel a couple of murmurs/quivers for a day. This past week, though, I have been feeling this more often. Sometimes it will last for a good minute.
It doesn’t hurt, it feels very strange, though. I also feel a twinge in the right side of my neck whenever this happens. I can’t tell if it’s my heart. I check my pulse while it’s happening and it doesn’t seem to change, and the murmur feeling is just to the right of the center of my chest.
Could this be something serious?

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:50:45 GMT
Open Question: Vegan, Omnivores, Heart Attacks, What’s the Deal?
Has anyone read the book ‘Skinny Bitch’? (Or for the guys, ‘Skinny Bastard’.) If you haven’t, it’s a pretty hilariously written book, and focuses mostly on the vegan-lifestyle.
So now I’m wondering if I should go vegan or not. I’m wondering what everyone’s thoughts are, because I’m pretty split down the middle right now, of whether I should be a vegan, or continue living out what I have always known as an omnivore. I’ve done some research on my own, and this has only broadened the gap.
So, on one hand, there’s the argument that humans were never meant to break down animal protein, and that the hydrochloric acid in our stomachs isn’t meant to break down the protein from animals, and that the acid in our stomachs is more like the acid of herbivores.
Another argument is that we’re omnivores, we need protein (and I’m not arguing that) but we don’t need to attain it from animal meat.
So is it a matter of choice, and that’s that? We need protein but it doesn’t matter where we get it from. If this is the case, I’d be a vegan in a heartbeat, because of the horrible things that humans do to these poor animals.
My real question here though, and it’s one that hasn’t been answered, is: is it really true that we can’t process these proteins, is eating meat really causing heart disease, cancer, etc.
What’s the best way to live, and live heathily and happily, without hurting the planet, or others?

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:43:00 GMT

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