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Like many other diseases, cardiovascular disease is caused by a variety of factors.
While some heart problems may be unavoidable due to genetics, they can be prevented or even improved with lifestyle changes.
According to Express, diet is one of the factors that can be adjusted to improve heart health. According to an expert, this is why there is a certain fruit that we can eat every day.
Dr. Deborah Lee explained more about how diet can help the heart, warning that low-density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol), oxidative stress and platelet aggregation (thrombosis) can lead to cardiovascular disease.
She said: “Diet is very important in terms of cardiovascular risk as it influences these three factors and different types of fats are included in the diet, as well as antioxidants, which are found in large quantities in fruit and vegetables. “
Adding: “What we eat, for example a diet high in salt or high in sugar, can also affect the activity of blood platelets and their tendency to clot.”
She therefore recommended adding tomatoes to your daily diet, explaining that they contain the red pigment lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that can help prevent atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerosis is the main cause of cardiovascular disease, but lycopene inhibits it by preventing the oxidation of lipoproteins in plasma.
Studies in 2022 also found that consuming large amounts of lycopene reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease by 14%.
Research has also shown that tomatoes can have a positive effect on the heart when consumed in various forms, including whole, juice or paste.
Signs of a heart problem
- Ankle swelling
- Shortness of breath, for example when climbing stairs
- have dizziness
- Cold extremities
- Your blood pressure is higher than it should be
- Fast pulse with the slightest exertion
- Throbbing
- insomnia
- Sleep and apnea
- I feel tired all the time
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