Vote for Your Health

The heart pumps blood through blood vessels called arteries and the blood carries vital oxygen with nutrients needed by tissues and organs throughout the body.

When cholesterol levels are above normal limits and stay high, some remnants of cholesterol are deposited in the arteries and through the years, they are hardened by a fatty substance called cholesterol plaque that accumulates on the walls of the arteries and reduces or blocks blood flow.

The organs supplied by these arteries are damaged because they can not get oxygen and nutrients needed by limiting blood flow through the arteries, so for example when blood flow to the brain is blocked, it causes a stroke or if the plaque completely blocks a coronary artery, is when we are in presence of a heart attack.

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A significant percent of cancers could be prevented if during the life take a number of precautions that have been proven to reduce the chance of developing various cancers. In this paper we present some recommendations that should become facts of everyday life.

• Change in eating habits: Calorie restriction, varied diet that meets the recommendations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
• Avoid obesity from an early age. Obesity in childhood causes a precocious and incomplete development of the reproductive organs, the prelude to cancer of the reproductive organs.
• Reducing animal fat in the diet. Animal fats stimulate the production of bile acids that are mixed with feces and travel to the colon where they are converted into carcinogenic compounds by bacteria in the intestinal flora.
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Junk food causes lots of damage to health. For years, the WHO warning people about the bad habit of habitually eating fast food, but millions across the globe consume hamburgers, hot dogs, carbonated drinks, high-salt potato chips. Thousands of calories and fat saturated producing elevation of what is known as “bad” cholesterol or LDL cholesterol.

WHAT IS “bad” cholesterol?
If there is a “bad” cholesterol LDL – is because there is also a “good” cholesterol HDL -. It is important to understand the differences between them. The why is very well studied: HDL cholesterol helps to drive out of the blood vessels while LDL can be deposited within the walls of arteries. Over the years, end up obstructing the arteries and causing heart attacks, circulatory failure, and other conditions.

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