The Content of Vegetables Prevents Cancer
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 Cardiac Patients
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.
Rheumatic Heart disease
Rheumatic Heart disease is a condition where there is damage to the heart valves like narrowing or leakage, particularly at the mitral valve (mitral valve stenosis) as a result of remain symptoms of rheumatic fever (RF). Rheumatic fever is a systemic disease that can be acute, sub acute, chronic, or fulminate, and can occur after streptococcal beta hemolyticus group A infection on the upper respiratory tract. Acute rheumatic fever is characterized by prolonged fever, heart pounding, sometimes get tired.
The peak of rheumatic fever incidence is at the age 5-15 years, this disease is rarely found on children under the age of 4 years and the people over 50 years. If it is not treated adequately it could lead to rheumatic heart disease. Infection by Streptococcus Beta Hemolyticus Group A which causes rheumatic fever is started by inflammation in the throat, then the poison / toxin from this bacteria will spread through the blood circulation and cause inflammation to the heart valves.
As a result the valves will experienced adhesions then become narrowed or thicken and shrink so it won’t cover perfectly and cause leakage. Signs and Symptoms of rheumatic heart disease: the patients are generally experienced shortness of breath which is caused by problems on the heart, painful joints, reddish spotted on the skin, irregular and uncontrollable hand movements, or small lumps under the skin. Other signs that emerge, such as abdominal pain, weight loss, fatigue and of course fever.