Three important risk factors for heart disease you can control are high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, and smoking. If you have only one of these risk factors, your risk of heart disease doubles. If you have three risk factors, your risk is eight times higher than if you do not have. Other important risk factors for heart disease include age, sex, diabetes, family history and medical history.

* High Cholesterol

Too much cholesterol in the bloodstream can contribute to their accumulation in the arteries, causing atherosclerosis. High cholesterol can often be controlled with diet changes, but in some cases medication is needed.

High blood pressure

The second major risk factor for heart attacks, and the leading cause of stroke is high blood pressure, or hypertension.

* Smoking

Smoking increases the risk of heart attack by decreasing the concentration of HDL “good” and increase blood pressure. The concentration of HDL cholesterol in a person who smokes can detectably increase when you stop smoking.

* Lack of exercise

The investigation by the American Heart Association (American Heart Association) shows that regular aerobic exercise actually strengthens the heart muscle, enhances HDL levels, lowers blood pressure, slows the progression of diabetes, and helps prevent obesity. Almost all organizations recommend about 30 to 40 minutes of moderate exercise four or more days a week.

* Obesity

Research shows that obesity should be considered a major risk factor for heart disease, rather than one that simply contributes to other risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

* Diabetes

People with diabetes are susceptible to heart disease. People with poorly controlled diabetes often have multiple health problems including high cholesterol and other movement disorders that lead to atherosclerosis, bleeding from a small-caliber blood vessels in the eye, and inadequate circulation to the feet and hands. Smoking makes these problems worse.

It is important not to prolong this diet more than a day because it could cause disorders in the metabolism of the individual. On the other hand will recommend drinking plenty of water as it not only detoxifies the body but also helps to eliminate fats and combat fluid retention that causes swelling.

The diet to deflate the body in one day is not indicated for people with diabetes and is recommended under the supervision of a specialist.

Procedure:

For breakfast:

* 1 or 2 cups of weak tea with a slice of lemon and a teaspoon of honey.
* 1 natural fruit juice and sugar to taste.

For lunch at midmorning

* 1 natural yogurt.

To eat

* 1 soup or salad vegetable or tomato juice.
* 1 vegetable salad dressed with lemon.
* 1 light tea with a slice of lemon and a teaspoon of honey.

Picnic

* 1 vegetable broth.

For dinner

* 1 cup fat-free broth.
* 1 serving of steamed vegetables.
* 1 vegetable salad.
* 1 cup of tea with a slice of lemon and a teaspoon of honey.

Before this diet was recommended to go to a specialist who can indicate what kind of diet is best suited to the characteristics and needs of each person.

Eating fish

They found that men and women who consumed amounts of seafood mainly shrimps, crabs and mussels, had about 36 percent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

But “can not be the seafood which increased the risk of diabetes,” said Dr. Nita Forouhi, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge.

Rather, cooking and processing methods used in the UK, would be responsible, as for example when frying oils or butter and mayonnaise served with seafood sauces, may increase cholesterol intake , which in turn may increase the risk of diabetes.

Forouhi and colleagues assessed weekly intake of seafood besides fish white fish like cod, haddock, sole and halibut, or fatty fish such as mackerel, salmon, tuna and salmon, about 12,183 men and 9801 women who participated in the study aged between 40 and 79 years old, who until now and had no history of diabetes.

During an average of 10 years, 725 of these men and women developed type 2 diabetes.

Both the lower risk associated with white fish and fish oil and the increased risk associated with seafood intake remained when the researchers evaluated a number of risk factors for diabetes including physical activity, obesity, alcohol consumption and consumption fruit and vegetables.

• Folic acid is a vitamin that needs to drink daily. Deficiency leads to anemia, premature detachment of the placenta, infants with low birth weight and some malformations, mostly of the nervous system.
  Although present in many foods, which are subjected to heat during the cooking process makes it possible to destroy, so it is necessary to consume fresh fruits and vegetables without cooking, and, as ordered, take a multivitamin with this vitamin.
• If a pregnant woman has some degree of malnutrition may occur low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation and fetal or neonatal death. In addition, it increases the risk of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes in adolescence and adulthood.

• The pregnant woman does not “eat for two.” You should eat the right amount and balanced, according to medical recommendations, because the excess weight gain may cause newborns with higher than normal weight, diabetes, hypertension and other complications. It should include fruits, vegetables, legumes, cereals and derivatives, proteins (meats, fish, eggs, beans) and dairy products, properly distributed throughout the day. Do not skip breakfast and evening meal should not be excessive.
• The calculation of the weight of each mother according to their individual needs. Weight gain depends on the nutritional status in early pregnancy. Generally, a mother with normal nutritional assessment should be increased 25 pounds, if undernourished, between 30 and 35, whereas if one is obese should gain 10 to 15 pounds.
• Must eat foods in limited smoked hams, coffee, tea and soft drinks instant or gassed. They should also be avoided, except prescription medications of traditional medicine, because they generally are not known to produce effects on the fetus and pregnancy.
• Smoking, drugs and alcohol are especially harmful to the health of mother and child. You also should avoid the consumption of prescription medications.