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Maintain Healthy Lifestyle by Controlling High Cholesterol

Topic: Heart DiseasePublished August 16, 2012

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"Eat food like a medicine and medicine like food" this is not just a saying but real life incidents that are occurring in everybody’s life. There are lots of people who are worried about their daily food intake and because of the various serious ailments surrounding their life. Now everyone has become concerned about their basic health care and the minor health complications that can take the shape of serious problems in the future. One of them is the high cholesterol; cholesterol itself is produced in the body and mostly in the liver and very imperative for the body to function properly. There are various reasons of having high cholesterol and one of the most obvious reasons is being overweight, secondly low activity and if you want to have the good cholesterol to be higher that the bad one then you must include lots of physical exercise in your daily routine. .There is some causes that are irreversible like age related factor, kidney problems and thyroid disorders. There are some foods that cause high cholesterol and act like a enemy to your veins and arteries like saturated fats and Trans fat. If you have come across that you are suffering from cholesterol then follow the treatment as per the doctors command otherwise there are some side effects, some are common and some are serious. Like atherosclerosis it is narrowing of your arteries and hardening of the artery walls, second is the heart strain it is long term side effects. High level blood pressure causes coronary artery disease where the plague is build up in the walls of the artery. The symptoms and signs of the coronary heart disease cannot be detected at the early stage and most individual experience the symptom of the coronary artery disease after a sudden heart attack. There are various symptoms of the coronary artery disease that include the shortness of breath, palpitations, a faster heartbeat, weakness, dizziness, nausea and sweating. You can perform the test and check up done to confirm if you are suffering any such serious ailment with an electrocardiogram, exercise stress tests, electron beam computerized tomography. When you are detected with this chronic ailment there are common procedures to treat the disease with the help of the balloon angioplasty, stint placement, bypass surgery all of these processes increases the blood supply to the heart and then lead a healthy lifestyle to decrease the risk factor. Commonly heart failure is related with death, but it is a general disorders related with the movement of blood to the heart or from the heart to the extremities. Blood serves as the vehicle for oxygen and if it fails to do so the heart becomes weak and in turn leads to heart failure. Old people are especially susceptible to the heart problem and occur form long term weakening of the heart. The senior citizens are more prone to the heart failure because they suffer from the high blood pressure and diabetes that contribute to the heart failure. If you want to prevent yourself from the deadly disease you got to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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