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Several factors triggering a general increase in heart attacks we find in everyday life based on the results of research in Switzerland, among others: coffee, caffeine effect is stimulate the heart and increases blood flow to muscles, thereby increasing blood pressure. Coffee addicts average 1.5 more prone to heart attacks within 1 hour after drinking coffee.

Alcohol, alcohol can also increase blood pressure thus increasing heart load. Alcoholics are three times more at risk of heart attack within 12 hours after drinking alcoholic beverages.

Traffic pollution, various heart problems including blockage of blood vessels more often experienced by people who live along the main road. Pollution increases the risk of heart attack up to 3 times within 1 hour.

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Coronary heart disease, the world’s number one killer disease, is caused by blockage of an artery by deposits of cholesterol channel (atherosclerosis). Therefore, adjusting the diet with low cholesterol diet is one of the main weapons against high cholesterol levels. By preventing the rise in cholesterol levels, you also take part in preventing heart disease and atherosclerosis. Cholesterol is a fatty derivative.

In sufficient quantities, these substances are very helpful performance run some body functions such as bile, hormones, precursor of vitamin D, and moving some functions of other organs. Cholesterol can be made by the body and obtained from certain foods. If the body to consume food containing excessive amounts of cholesterol, the cholesterol levels in the blood will tend to increase. Excessive cholesterol in the blood will cause the narrowing and blockage of blood vessels. This blockage will eventually cause heart disease. There are some foods that contain high cholesterol such as egg yolk, liver, brain, lung, intestine, crabs, shellfish and other foods.

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After been doing long and deep research, it is known that chemicals in vegetables, especially orange and dark green vegetables can help prevent death from heart disease and cancer. Previously, it was known that high alpha-carotene content in the blood vessels can reduce the risk of death to more than one third of the number of death from cardiovascular disease over the last 14 years. This antioxidant is chemically similar to beta carotene and can be found in some vegetables, especially carrots, sweet potatoes, broccoli, and spinach.

A study conducted the analysis by linking these substances and a lower risk of dying from heart disease and cancer. All this time beta-carotene is known as one of the antioxidants that can counteract free radicals.

Although it contains in some of vegetable, it is popularly consumed in form of supplement. Even so, the scientists believe that alpha-carotene is more effective than beta-carotene because it can inhibit cancer cell growth in liver, brain, and skin.

Diet for the sick people is not a single action and separate from the act of care and treatment. Those three is a unity in the healing process. Therefore, the responsibility to arrange diet for the sick people is not solely the responsibility of the nutritionists, but it is a shared responsibility from all three elements that play a role in the healing process, namely doctors, nurses and nutritionists.

The same as drugs, the using of food to cure the disease should also according to the doctor’s advice. But unlike drugs, the using of food is not merely as a means of healing. Besides, the food still has another function which is to give a satiety feeling, satisfied and comfortable feeling, cared feeling, and so on, which is rarely considered in the drugs provision.

Gaining ideal weight and height can be a sign that someone is practiced a balance diet. It might cause various diseases when someone is having less physical activity while his food consumption continues to increase. Excessive consumption of carbohydrates and fats can cause blood vessels clogging and other diseases, like heart disease.