A healthy lifestyle can help prevent heart disease and slow its progress. A heart-healthy lifestyle includes maintaining a healthy diet, regular exercise, weight maintenance, no smoking, moderate drinking, controlling hypertension, and managing stress. Cardiac rehabilitation programs are excellent to help prevent recurring coronary problems for people who are at risk and who have had coronary events and procedures.
You have to adopt the following life styles which will clear the blocked arteries, if it is in the initial stages, with out surgery.
A healthy diet includes a variety of foods that are low in fat, especially saturated fat, low in cholesterol, and high in fiber. It includes plenty of fruits and vegetables and limited salt. Saturated fats should equal seven to 10% of calories, polyunsaturated fats should equal about 10%, monounsaturated fat should be 15%, and carbohydrates should total 55-60% of daily calories. Fat should comprise no more than 30% of total daily calories and should be taken preferably as fish oil, olive oil, seeds, and vegetable oil. New evidence shows that replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat is more effective in lowering coronary heart disease risk than reducing total fat intake. Eating cold-water fish or taking comparable omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements can help prevent cardiac death. In 2003, the American Heart Association began advocating daily servings of fatty fish or three fish oil capsules daily
Excess sodium can increase the risk of high blood pressure. Many processed foods contain large amounts of sodium. Daily intake should be limited to about 2,400 milligrams, about the amount in a teaspoon of salt.
Smoking has many adverse effects on the heart. It increases the heart rate, constricts major arteries, and can create irregular heartbeats. It also raises blood pressure, contributes to the development of plaque, increases the formation of blood clots, and causes blood platelets to cluster and impede blood flow. When smokers quit the habit, heart damage can be repaired.-
2007-08-17 01:45:05
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answered by Jayaraman 7
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clear blocked arteries
2016-02-02 13:46:18
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answered by Diena 4
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Please see the web page for more details on Heart disease and diet. Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.
Please note that arteries once blocked will not clear by drugs or diet. That why heart patients undergo Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
2007-08-16 04:36:40
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answered by gangadharan nair 7
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The best natural home remedy that I ever heard of was Apple Cider Vinegar and Honey drinks. Lots of salads and vegetables and meals with sauerkraut also help. Use Garlic whenever you can. There are medications that are prescribed to alleviate the problem but if you don't like drugs then you can try natural remedies. Check out some sites:
http://www.rawfoodinfo.com/articles/art_cidervingarlichoney.html
http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/acvinegar2.html
http://www.celestialhealing.net/applecider2.htm
2007-08-16 04:24:54
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answered by Anonymous
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The hospital food after an angioplasty.
2007-08-16 04:58:40
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answered by Anonymous
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