According to "What causes coronary heart disease?" , coronary heart disease is resulted from the plaque, the accumulation of cholesterol in your blood stream, that occlude your vessel. As a result of the occlusion, the muscle of heart where the occluded vessel supply starts to die and, therefore, your heart can't pump the blood effectively.The disease itself takes a long time to be noticed because cholesterol is accumulated slowly. However, the outcome of this slow process is deadly. Unlike inflammation disease, coronary heart disease must take a long time to be noticed, may be months or years. By the time you notice the indication, the disease might have gone to the late stage of it. But, the heart is not the only one to be concerned regarding the coronary heart disease. The plaque in the vessel is like a timed bomb, waiting to be exploded and travel to somewhere else in your body, such as your brain. We call the plaque that breaks apart from it's origin the embolism. If the embolism reaches your brain via the blood stream, it is likely that it will occlude the vessel in your brain too. Since the vessel in your brain is very small in diameter, it can be occluded so easily. The process might be sudden, depending on the size of the embolism. If it's small, then nothing will happen. But, if it's big, brain abnormality like seizure might be found.
So, what can we do to reduce the risk of this deadly disease? The easiest way to avoid the disease is to change your lifestyle. It's the easiest because it depends on you only. You can start by exercising two or three times a week, twenty to thirty minutes each. The next thing you can do is to avoid some kind of food, like sea shell, shrimp, chicken skin, chesse and so on. Also, if you have to choose whether to have chicken meat or pork, I suggest you choose chicken because it has more polyunsaturated fat, which is physiologically good for your health, than pork. And don't forget to have annual check up for your health, so that you can keep up with the result of your resolutions and adapt them if you have to.
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Is it true that "The easiest way to avoid the disease is to change your lifestyle," as Pop advises? If this requires us to do things like avoid cheese, as he also suggests, then it does not sound easy to me at all.
ReplyDeleteSome suggestion that you said in your blog is very useful. I think most of people knew it but can't do it because some kind of food, which cause heart disease, are very tasty. Favorite one is shellfish.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother's older sister, which is almost 80 years old now, had vascular occlusion from embolism. Unfortunately, the occlusion occurred in her brain, and now she can't use her left body. She mentioned that she had high cholesterol, but I didn't know that it is the cause of her vascular occlusion until I read your writing.
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