Keeping Lifestyle, Avoiding Atherosclerosis

Currently patients with heart or stroke increasing in number. Not only that, the age of the patients were getting younger. This is because the high levels of life stress and not the preservation of lifestyles.

If the pattern or lifestyle is not maintained and even misguided, will eventually happen atherosclerosis in our bodies. "Atherosclerosis is a cardiovascular disease (coronary) is narrowing," said Prof. Dr. Slamet Suyono MD, Chairman of the Society of Atherosclerosis Disease and Vascular Disease Indonesia, Saturday (26 / 8) in Jakarta.

Due to narrowing of blood vessels, the heart does not get food. In fact, the heart beat on every day and need the calories obtained from the blood to the heart, blood vessel constriction result, the heart was not getting food, so there was a heart attack.

Now there is a tendency of heart attack more and more increasing in number, both in the world and in Indonesia. This is due to the wrong lifestyle. Now we tend to eat foods that contain lots of calories, such as rice, fat, sugar, and salt.

If we eat too much, it will lead to obesity. Increased cholesterol, diabetes will also appear. All of these factors will lead to atherosclerosis.

In addition, our society is too busy working from morning till night. For example all day sitting in front of the computer so there is no opportunity to exercise or move the body. In fact, exercise is very important to facilitate the blood vessels.

The number of jobs can also lead to high stress because they have to chase the target. That all are factors that support the narrowing of blood vessels.

"Atherosclerosis is the upper reaches, downstream is a heart attack. Therefore we must prevent not to occur stroke or heart attack," said Slamet Suyono.

Change lifestyle

To prevent it happening atherosclerosis resulting in heart attack or stroke, we have to change the wrong lifestyle.

"Do not wait to change your lifestyle if you've aged 40 years and over, but since the kids lifestyle must be maintained. The kids now a lot of fat from eating fatty foods, junk food, and sedentary. Now the children plenty play games in front of the television or computer, "said Slamet Suyono.

Food that is not maintained will raise cholesterol levels, high blood sugar increases, plus the air pollution so that the narrowing of blood vessels. These factors should be prevented from the beginning.

Teenagers also have to be given education about health, especially the bad things what would happen if we do not maintain the diet. (LOC)