Hypercholesterolemia is a disease that affects 3 out of 5 patients. Unfortunately, it is a serious disease that could seriously compromise our lifestyles, our diets and could also lead to serious degeneration that can lead to death. Hypercholesterolemia is nothing but an accumulation of harmful fat for our body, inside the blood vessels. These clusters of fat could settle between them and go to position themselves along the walls of our arteries causing a serious reduction in the diameter of these.
Physicians remember that the arteries are blood vessels of fundamental importance, since they supply oxygenated blood to the brain and other major vital organs. Most of the time this pathology derives from a genetic transmission, so if in the family there are cases of pathologies related to hypercholesterolemia, it would be good to carry out control tests to verify our state of health and if we have effectively inherited this bad pathology. Another cause of the appearance of high cholesterol is an unbalanced diet high in fat.
There are really a lot of people who eat junk food with a very high frequency, this worries the scientific community a lot since only in the last 6 months the cases of apparently healthy individuals who have encountered problems due to a high cholesterol levels increased by 25%. This pathology spares neither women nor men, whatever their age. For those who suffer from this pathology, foods considered “healthy” such as fiber, vegetables, legumes, fish and even red meat are to be preferred, but with limits.
All foods that are fried and contain a large amount of fat should be eliminated, as they contribute significantly to the increase in cholesterol values in our body. Fast foods and the foods they prepare are a clear example of this: everything is fried and the amount of salt used is so high that it can even damage blood pressure. Doctors say they are very worried, because this upward trend shows no signs of stopping, quite the contrary.
It is precisely for this reason that awareness campaigns have been activated in schools to make young people aware of the risks they run by adopting unhealthy lifestyles. In addition to nutrition, another factor that helps a lot to counter the appearance of the disease is the practice of a sport. Keeping our body moving allows us to quickly eliminate all the excesses, thus preventing them from settling in and causing other problems.