Post Date December, 03 2023
The heart is an important organ of human beings, and its health reflects the health of our bodies. If there is a problem with the heart, it will directly affect health, and even threaten human life. Therefore, the prevention and health care of heart disease is particularly crucial. However, some men still have some misconceptions about heart disease.
Three Misunderstandings of Heart Disease
1. Heart disease prevention period
Some people say that heart disease in children is congenital, and only middle-aged and elderly people can develop acquired heart disease. That's not all right. "Children's heart diseases are indeed mostly congenital, and many manifestations of heart disease, such as angina pectoris and myocardial infarction, mostly occur in middle-aged and elderly people. However, if we trace back to the source, many patients with heart disease have already developed heart disease in childhood or adolescence.". Research has proved that many heart disease patients will have some purple stripes on the inner wall of their arteries in childhood, and these purple stripes are the basis for the formation of atherosclerotic plaque in the future. In other words, atherosclerosis in patients with heart disease has developed since childhood. Therefore, normal people should pay attention to diet and actively participate in physical exercise from childhood to prevent heart disease.
2. Thin people don't get heart disease
Generally speaking, the blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood lipids of obese people are high, so the risk of heart disease is high in obese people. Therefore, doctors often require people to lose weight and maintain an appropriate weight. "However, people with thin bodies should not relax their vigilance because there are many factors that can cause heart disease, such as excessive homocysteine in the body, long-term depression or tension, and lack of exercise. These factors have little to do with a person's body shape.". In addition, diseases such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia are not the "patents" of obese people, and thin people can also suffer from these diseases.
3. Preventing heart disease
Many people refuse to eat high fat meat products in order to prevent heart disease, which is wrong. Practice has proven that if a person persists in eating only low-fat foods such as vegetables and fruits for a long time, it can lead to excessive intake of sugars, forcing the body to secrete more insulin to help digest sugars, which can lead to a series of changes in the body, such as a decrease in the content of substances beneficial to the body such as high-density lipoprotein, and an increase in the content of substances harmful to the body such as triglycerides. These changes can damage blood vessels, and the results can lead to heart disease, just as with hyperlipidemia. It can be seen that people can effectively prevent heart disease only by following the principle of combining meat and vegetable dishes and combining coarse and fine grains in their diet.
(Intern Editor: Lin Yanjuan)
