Diet and coronary heart disease

Effects of obesity

• High blood pressure due to over-consumptio of salt
• Type 2 diabetes where glucose is insulin resistant
• Gout- type of arthiritis' sodium urate crystals form inside joints
• strokes- not enought O2 to parts of brain
• cancer- higher risk in women
• Gallstones- excess cholestrol in liver

Coronary heart disease- Coronary vessel blocked, cannot supply glucose and 02 to heart muscle for respiration therefore dies= heart attack. Severity depends on where is it blocked. For treatment, heart bypass allows blood to flow past blockage. 

Athesclerosis

Plaque build ups due to excess cholestrol in…