Informative Speech On Heart Disease
Topic: Heart Disease
Specific Topic: How to prevent heart disease.
General Purpose: To Inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience that heart disease is the number one killer in the U.S.
Central Idea: Being well informed about the disease and how to prevent it.
Pattern: Spatial
Introduction:
I. Have you been around when someone was having a heart attack? Unlike me I have been in this situation and can tell you from experience it is a scary situation to be in, and my hopes is to never have to experience it again along with none of you having to experience it.
II. In my speech my goal is to bring you the major information on what a heart attack is, the different types, along with some statistics about heart disease and then wrap it all …show more content…
According to Anti-Aging-Source.com Coronary heart disease is the most common form of heart disease, it is the one that you need to be most focused on avoiding. Coronary heart disease refers to the failure of your blood vessels to circulate blood to your heart and organs due to gunk build up on the walls of your circulatory system. Alcoholic heart disease is pretty much self explanatory. But just to be clear this form of the disease is due to the overuse of alcohol. Congenital heart disease is caused by birth defects that one way or other weaken the heart muscle and is one of the primary causes of early childhood death in America. Hypertensive heart disease brought on by out of control, long term high blood pressure. It is just one of many diseases and conditions brought on by high blood pressure. High blood pressure also affects the liver very poorly among other organs. Valvular heart disease that affects the valves of the heart and not so much the heart itself, this can be congenital or can be developed over time. Inflammatory heart disease caused by inflammation (swelling) of the heart wall. This can be caused by bad bacteria getting past the immune system or stress. Dilated heart disease (especially the left side) is enlarged and the pumping function limited causing a loss of blood to the rest of the body. Restrictive heart disease is the least common disease of the heart, the walls of the heart ventricles are stiff, but may not be thickened, and resists the normal filling of the heart with blood.
C. Be sure to know the different symptoms for the different types because only 26% of people know them all. They are more than just chest pain. Who knows you may be able to save a life!
Transition: Now that we know what a heart attack is and the different types of heart disease, let’s look at what we can do to prevent heart disease.
III. Easy to follow tips to prevent heart
Specific Topic: How to prevent heart disease.
General Purpose: To Inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience that heart disease is the number one killer in the U.S.
Central Idea: Being well informed about the disease and how to prevent it.
Pattern: Spatial
Introduction:
I. Have you been around when someone was having a heart attack? Unlike me I have been in this situation and can tell you from experience it is a scary situation to be in, and my hopes is to never have to experience it again along with none of you having to experience it.
II. In my speech my goal is to bring you the major information on what a heart attack is, the different types, along with some statistics about heart disease and then wrap it all …show more content…
According to Anti-Aging-Source.com Coronary heart disease is the most common form of heart disease, it is the one that you need to be most focused on avoiding. Coronary heart disease refers to the failure of your blood vessels to circulate blood to your heart and organs due to gunk build up on the walls of your circulatory system. Alcoholic heart disease is pretty much self explanatory. But just to be clear this form of the disease is due to the overuse of alcohol. Congenital heart disease is caused by birth defects that one way or other weaken the heart muscle and is one of the primary causes of early childhood death in America. Hypertensive heart disease brought on by out of control, long term high blood pressure. It is just one of many diseases and conditions brought on by high blood pressure. High blood pressure also affects the liver very poorly among other organs. Valvular heart disease that affects the valves of the heart and not so much the heart itself, this can be congenital or can be developed over time. Inflammatory heart disease caused by inflammation (swelling) of the heart wall. This can be caused by bad bacteria getting past the immune system or stress. Dilated heart disease (especially the left side) is enlarged and the pumping function limited causing a loss of blood to the rest of the body. Restrictive heart disease is the least common disease of the heart, the walls of the heart ventricles are stiff, but may not be thickened, and resists the normal filling of the heart with blood.
C. Be sure to know the different symptoms for the different types because only 26% of people know them all. They are more than just chest pain. Who knows you may be able to save a life!
Transition: Now that we know what a heart attack is and the different types of heart disease, let’s look at what we can do to prevent heart disease.
III. Easy to follow tips to prevent heart