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What foods should one avoid to prevent a stroke?
Eat lower-fat foods. Saturated fat and trans fat, found in foods such as red meat, butter, cream, ice cream, potato chips, pastries, candy bars and many packaged snack foods, raise blood cholesterol. Excessive cholesterol can lead to blood vessel blockage and stroke. Instead, use lower-fat foods as substitutes when you can. Choose fish, poultry, beans and legumes over fatty meats, nonfat dairy foods instead of whole milk and cream, frozen yogurt instead of ice cream and lower-fat versions of cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream and yogurt.
What could block a blood vessel?
Cholesterol, blood clots, fat embolism', even plastic from a hypodermic needle that has broken off can block blood vessles.
How atorvastatin work in human body?
Atorvastatin works by blocking an enzyme in the liver that your body uses to make cholesterol. When less cholesterol is produced, the liver takes up more cholesterol from the bloodstream. This results in lower levels of cholesterol circulating in your blood. Lipitor - Atorvastatin is used with diet changes (restriction of cholesterol and fat intake) to reduce the amount of cholesterol and certain fatty substances in your blood. Accumulation of cholesterol and fats along the walls of your arteries (a process known as atherosclerosis) decreases blood flow and, therefore, the oxygen supply to your heart, brain, and other parts of your body. Lowering your blood level of cholesterol and fats may help to prevent heart disease, angina (chest pain), strokes, and heart attacks.
What tissue type that forms blood fat and fibroblasts?
Connective Tissue
What is the disease that clogs up arteries with fat and cholesterol deposits?
Atherosclerosis
Does avocado has cholesterol?
No. It does have a type of fat that is now considered to lower the bad type of cholesterol in your body
What type of fat increases blood cholesterol levels?
saturated fat
What are cholesterol-reducing drugs?
Cholesterol-reducing drugs are medicines that lower the amount of cholesterol (a fat-like substance) in the blood.
What does not affect cholesterol levels heredity blood type eating low-fat foods or exercise?
Blood type does not affect cholesterol levels. Heredity, eating low-fat foods, and exercise all do affect cholesterol levels.
What type of fat simulates the liver to produce more cholesterol which can lead to the depositing of cholesterol in the blood vessels?
Animal
What type of fat stimulates the liver to produce more cholesterol which can lead to the depositing of cholesterol in the blood vessels?
Triglyceride
What does steric acid do to the body?
Stearic acid is an essential saturated fat that can actually lower blood cholesterol in your body.
what's the symptom and signs of high cholesterol. Is that to much fat in the blood. My Doctor say I have to much fat in the blood.?
To much fat in the blood is that posiable. Could this be high cholesterol.
Are nuts generally high in fat?
Yes they are but they are considered a healthy snack because most of their fat is monounsaturated, the type of fat that helps to lower cholesterol levels.
What is Tricor use for?
Tricor (fenofibrate) is used primarily to lower triglycerides, a form of fat in the blood related to cholesterol. To a lesser extent it also lowers the "bad cholesterol" (LDL) and raises the "good cholesterol" (HDL).
Are prawns high in cholesterol?
The level of blood cholesterol is affected more by the amount and type of fat in the diet than the amount of dietary cholesterol. A high intake of saturates, and fat of all types, can increase the amount of cholesterol produced in the liver and so the amount in the blood. This increases the risk of heart disease. Prawns are naturally low in saturated fat, 100g contains only 0.2g.
How are fat and cholesterol trasported in the body?
It is transported by the blood stream.
