Heart questions??

Question

Hi guys, my friend recently underwent a physical and the side of his neck, where the vein is, was hard, and the nurse asked him if eats a lot of fried food? He doesn't and was just wondering what it could be? I heard clogged artery, if so, is that bad, what should he do?

Answer 1

Adam,

That's not a good sign. Without a CT scan it would be a bit difficult to accurately diagnose, but in the vast majority of cases, it would be very possible for him to have an advanced case of cholesterol plaques.

Cholesterol plaques start out as fatty streaks in arteries and veins, but the progression of the disease hardens the cholesterol from the outside in with calcium deposits. As it does so, because it actually starts out inside the lumen, the lining of the artery, the entire artery hardens, which removes it's blood-pressure regulating ability (normally it expands and narrows with the pulse and in reaction to adrenaline and nitric oxide, and this helps regulate blood pressure) and makes a great place for blood clots to form.

That's why the nurse asked if he ate a lot of fried foods. It isn't so much fried foods that do it but rather the kind of fat in them, the trans-fatty acids, which, because of their man-made shape, can't be acted on by our enzymes and so clog our arteries and prompt our liver to make more LDL (bad stuff) and less HDL (good stuff). While it's a really big part of the fried foods that we eat, there are other foods that will do that--especially anything that is packaged or processed (read the labels. If they say "partially hydrogenated [soybean, canola, cottonseed, palm, anything] oil" anywhere on it, do not buy that food). That stuff will only make his plaques worse.

If it is plaques, do not be surprised to find that his arteries are hardened in other places, as well, espeically in the heart and brain. The carotids are not that far from either of those. Frankly, I would say that, even before a clear test result--and pending that--I would say that he needs to go on a really low-fat diet NOW. A Dean Ornish-type diet. He needs to begin exercising rigorously, too--aerobic, cardio workouts like jogging/running for 45 minutes a day, that sort of thing. (Note: be really careful about starting one, start slow and increase slowly and gently. Get really good shoes--about $100 price range shoes--and run carefully to begin with. This is for your health and there's no sense in making the running worse than your condition).

Your friend is most likely in a certain amount of danger. I can't say how much from this distance, of course, but I would, for his sake, err on the side of assuming bad stuff is about to happen, because it certainly could. Aterial plaques of this apparently advanced nature are nothing to take lightly. A stroke or a heart attack is certain. It's just a mater of when.

Answer 2

I doubt if a nurse could be sensitive enough to feel plaque from the outside of an artery, not a vein. The only way to know if there is plaque built up is to have a catheterization with dye or a sonogram to hear certain sounds. You have to have other symptoms though to even have these done. Yes, fried foods will clog your arteries over time.

Answer 3

Well sometimes nurse don't know what they are talking bout. Its kind of hard to tell someone they have a clogged artert by looking at a vein. They have to do blood work to find that out. I dout that he has clogged arteries. He probably just have a hard vein.

Answer 4

VEINS DO NOT BECOME SCLEROTIC, EVER!!!


ONLY ARTERIES DO.



HUMAN ATHEROSCLEROSIS CONTAINS VERY LITTLE CHOLESTEROL

IT IS 90 % FIBROUS SCAR TISSUE FOOL SEE IT FORST HAND ON www.youtube.com TYPE IN KIRKSEY


THE CHOLESTEROL THEORY IS COMPLETELY FALSE



WWW.THEGREATCHOLESTEROLCON.COM




P.S. READ COLPOS BOOK THEN YOU MIGHT LEARN


"FATTY STERAKS" ARE NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT FATTY STREAKS THEY ARE A MICROPHAGE OF WHITE BLOOD CELLS THAT ONLY LOOK LIKE A "FATTY STREAK"

Answer 5

Are you sure!!!!!
I don't know that before..