The bad habit of eating unhealthily affects the body sooner or later. For example, some organs stop working properly and different substances in the body raise their levels, directly affecting the arteries.
“The arteries are membranous, elastic ducts, with divergent ramifications, responsible for distributing the blood expelled from the ventricular cavities of the heart in each systole throughout the body”explains the portal of the Comprehensive Diagnostic Center.
As mentioned above, a poor diet causes cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood to increase, which can clog the arteries themselves, increasing the risk of heart attack.
For this reason, one of the customs that can be implemented so that these values do not rise and affect these ducts is to eat a healthy diet, prioritizing foods of natural origin and avoiding at all costs synthetic products loaded with sugars, sodium and harmful fats. .
In this sense, the web portal Riverside Pharmacy made a list of foods that help unclog arteries:
- Olive oil.
- Canola oil.
- Nuts, nuts, almonds, among others:
As far as nuts are concerned, they are a ‘stellar’ food for preventing and caring for cardiovascular problems thanks to their high levels of Omega-3 fatty acids, which protect the heart.
- Fish like salmon, tuna, mackerel.
- Vegetables such as asparagus, onions, avocado, chard, broccoli, tomato, cabbage, spinach:
For example, broccoli is rich in folic acid, zinc, iron, calcium, vitamin K, antioxidants, it is a food that helps reduce the risk of vascular accidents.
- Fruits like pomegranate, apples, among others.
- Flax seeds.
- Pumpkin seeds.
- Tofu.
- Whole grains such as rice, bread, pasta, oats, rye, soy.
- Dark dark chocolate:
This last food might not be missing from the list. Dark chocolate helps restore flexibility to the arteries and prevents leukocytes from sticking to the walls of blood vessels.
However, before consuming a new food for an established purpose, a health professional must authorize it according to the conditions of each person.
What foods clog arteries?
Bearing in mind that coronary artery disease begins when fat, cholesterol, and other substances accumulate on the inner walls of the heart, below are a series of foods that, by avoiding or reducing their consumption, reduce the appearance of artery problems.
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States have warned that the massive consumption of sugar damages the walls of the arteries and favors the accumulation of plaque. So it is best to avoid soft drinks and sweets.
This type of fat significantly increases bad cholesterol in the arteries. It is important Avoid eating cakes, cookies, microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, and stick margarine.
Saturated fats contribute to the accumulation of bad cholesterol in the blood. Whole milk, some types of cheese and other dairy products fall into this category.
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