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5.2 Discuss The Relationship Between Diet, Blood Pressure,
Blood Cholesterol and Circulatory Disease
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Having a poor diet can result in you developing high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, this is due to the build up of fat and waste in the arteries causing clotting and blockages. When our diet consist of a lot of high saturated fats it leads us to have high cholesterol because our body systems all link together. When we have a high cholesterol level it causes a rise in our blood pressure, this is because our heart is having to work harder to try and circulate the blood around effectively even though our arteries are becoming blocked due to the build up of fats. Has our blood pressure gets higher this also puts pressure on the blood vessels causing them to narrow which restricts the normal flow of blood and increases the pressure. When the pressure of the blood flow is increased it puts strain on the heart which could then lead to damaging the heart by way of a heart attack, high blood pressure can also cause a stroke and overall cause circulatory disease. Having high blood cholesterol which is linked to a poor diet can also damage the artery walls because it makes them more vulnerable to having fatty acids attach to them that are floating around which causes atheroma, again linked to circulatory disease.
Blood Cholesterol and Circulatory Disease
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Having a poor diet can result in you developing high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, this is due to the build up of fat and waste in the arteries causing clotting and blockages. When our diet consist of a lot of high saturated fats it leads us to have high cholesterol because our body systems all link together. When we have a high cholesterol level it causes a rise in our blood pressure, this is because our heart is having to work harder to try and circulate the blood around effectively even though our arteries are becoming blocked due to the build up of fats. Has our blood pressure gets higher this also puts pressure on the blood vessels causing them to narrow which restricts the normal flow of blood and increases the pressure. When the pressure of the blood flow is increased it puts strain on the heart which could then lead to damaging the heart by way of a heart attack, high blood pressure can also cause a stroke and overall cause circulatory disease. Having high blood cholesterol which is linked to a poor diet can also damage the artery walls because it makes them more vulnerable to having fatty acids attach to them that are floating around which causes atheroma, again linked to circulatory disease.
Overall when people say you are what you eat is true in the case of your arteries, if you eat a lot of fatty food then that is what your arteries become blocked up with the fat and build up of plaque and calcium, that eventually could break away causing serious health issues.
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