Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure
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Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure
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• How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time?
• How does having high cholesterol speed up this process?
Damage! I must help!
These LDLs must be the invaders that are
causing the inflammation!
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• How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time?
• How does having high cholesterol speed up this process?
How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time?
1. Damage to blood vessels
2. Macrophages come to “help”
3. Macrophages get sick on LDLs and get stuck in blood vessel walls (plaque)
4. The plaque gets large
5. After many months or years, the plaque can come loose and block blood vessels (stroke)
How does high cholesterol speed up this process?
1. LDLs deliver more cholesterol to artery walls
2. More LDLs in the blood = fatter, sicker macrophages to form plaques
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Blocked blood flow to brain, lungs, or heart
Eat half as much saltas you are used to.
Lose five pounds and keep them off.
Take your medicine every day.
MORE PLANTS (IN GENERAL)
LESS ANIMALS (IN GENERAL)