Your Food & Heart Diseases

One of the biggest reasons for mortality in adults is cardiovascular diseases. We see around and read in news paper people suddenly dieing of heart attack or any other heart disease. This really terrifies everyone.

So a question arises here, who have the risk of cardiovascular diseases?

People having high blood pressure or hypertension have a high risk of heart attack and other heart diseases.
Eating a highly fatty diet, it may be tasty on your tongue but surely your heart cries when you eat such food.
Obesity, its being said “An obese person is a house of all diseases” and its right, if you are obese then you are on a high risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Lifespan of a person is decided by the food he eats so if you are eating a healthy food then you can reduce nearly all major risks of heart diseases.    Now hearing this line another question arises in your mind, how to decide what is a healthy food?
Well American Heart Association has recommended certain changes to your diet that you call, will be a healthy diet for you.

Grains: You should eat different variety of grains, and you should eat at least 6 servings of grains per day.
Fruits and vegetable: Any diet plan is incomplete without these two essential parts. You should eat a lot of fruits and vegetables.
Avoid fat: This is a must if you want a healthy heart. You can include low fat or free of fat milk products, lean meat and skinless poultry. If you cook oily food then choose less saturated oil like olive oil.
Avoid junk food: We all loves junk food. But you know what they are very unhealthy and give a lot of calories and you can put on weight from them.
A wise advice: Eat only the numbers of calories you require daily don’t eat too much. Also, avoid too much salt as salt increase your blood pressure. Avoid alcohol if you can, but if can’t don’t more than 1 drink/day.

If you follow above chart you can surely maintain your weight, keep a check on your cholesterol level and blood pressure. This food chart is also useful for other health problems like diabetes and some cancers.

Why fat so risky for heart?

I know you will be thinking on this, well fat increases the cholesterol level of the blood and also the LDL, low density lipoproteins. These fatty substances go into the blood and get deposited on the walls of blood vessels. And so chokes the normal flow of blood and you would have understood the risk now, if they block certain artery in the heart, you get a heart block and sometimes a sudden death. Also heart has to work under load to pump the blood into choked and narrowed blood vessels.
So, you must follow the guidelines given above to live a longer and risk free life.