Diet during atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is the most frequent reason of cardiovascular diseases. It is the disease where on the internal surface of artery the lipoid material begins to get stored and turn into cholesterol plaques. Such plaques later become more thick, attaching the connective tissue where calcium salt begins to get stored. The growing plaque narrows the artery openings, or sometimes fully blocks it. Usually the large arteria suffers from atherosclerosis: aorta, coronary artery, brain nutrient arteries. 
 
Many people suffering from atherosclerosis during many years do not feel any unpleasant symptoms. However, sooner or later when the changes in blood vessels are getting worse, it is inevitable that a person will feel specific symptoms. 
 
The heart as any other organ constantly receives the blood which flows in to it in arteries. If a person has atherosclerotic heart disease, the supply of the heart muscle with the blood suffers. The main reason of the blood flow suffer is the plaque on the inner side of the arteria which causes the luminal occlusion. During the physical or emotional pressure when the heart works with efforts due to the luminal occlusion there is no enough of blood flow to the heart. Therefore the certain heart muscle area during the certain period does not receive enough amount of blood, and as a result there is uncomfortable feeling of chest tightness which can turn into the pain. This disease is called cardiac angina.  If such feeling lasts for more than several hours it can cause a death (heart attack) of the heart muscle area (myocard). Deterioration of heart muscle blood supply slowly leads to growth of connective (healing) tissue, so called cardiosclerosis (“sclerosis” – a scar). Cardiosclerosis can be a reason of the cardiac arrhythmia and appearance of cardiac distress. Atherosclerosis of the brain artery is characterized by the reduction of level of work effectiveness, in particular the abilities to think, memorize, leads to rapid fatigability. The most dangerous effect of artherosclerosis of brain artery is a blood stroke.
 

 
There are a lot of reasons of way how the artherosclerosis develops. The main reason is certainly – the violation of nerve and endocrine regulation of metabolism. Another push to the development of the disease is unhealthy dining. Risk factors also include high blood pressure, diabetes, gout, obesity, negative hereditary background such as expressed or clear parent’s atherosclerosis; important to note that intensive mental activity which requires high nerve and psychical stress, smoking, drinking alcohol, lack of physical activity.                                                                                
The main factor which develops the artherosclerosis in women’s body is climax, especially early menopause, which has been brought after oophorectomy, since estrogens positively influence on fats metabolism in the blood.  
 

These rules of healthy dining shall be observed 
in order to prevent having the disease:

 

Thus it is possible to prevent or delay the progress of the disease if to bear in mind important factors. Healthy dining will improve the effect of medical therapy, and sometimes it plays even the main role, since the food products which are being absorbed by the body actively influence on the level and intensity of metabolism on all levels of body regulation.