Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure Feel free

Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure Feel free to use and share, but please credit: Christopher Chung; B. S. Nutritional Physiology & Metabolism, University of California Berkeley For any inquiries or to request updated versions, contact chris. Lchung@gmail. com

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• How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time? • How does having high cholesterol speed up this process?

Damage! I must help!

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• How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time? • How does having high cholesterol speed up this process?

How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time? 1. Damage to blood vessels 2. Macrophages come to “help” 3. Macrophages get sick on LDLs and get stuck in blood vessel walls (plaque) 4. The plaque gets large 5. After many months or years, the plaque can come loose and block blood vessels (stroke)

How does high cholesterol speed up this process? 1. LDLs deliver more cholesterol to artery walls LDL 2. More LDLs in the blood = fatter, sicker macrophages to form plaques

Blocked blood flow to brain, lungs, or heart

Eat half as much salt as you are used to.

Lose five pounds and keep them off.

Take your medicine every day.

LESS ANIMALS (IN GENERAL) MORE PLANTS (IN GENERAL)