How does one get cardiovascular disease?
There are really two primary reasons that people will develop heart disease, more material coming into the system than the body can effectively utilize and then accumulation of that material on the insides of the vessels through which it transported. Eating more calories than one expends in a day is going to cause an accumulation of energy stores, the currency of excess energy is fat, that is what makes more than 50% of the population of our country overweight. Trying to move fat inside of our water soluble system is problematic at best, but we can do it if there isn’t a huge amount that comes in at one time. The presence of more fat than can be used increases the tendency that it will end up on the walls of our blood vessels; this increased tendency becomes a stark reality when there is any kind of inflammation present in the system. That is, any inflammation caused by infection, trauma or pollution greatly increases the deposition of fats on the insides of our blood vessels. Preventi
