Question

What is "metabolic syndrome" and how is it linked to cardiovascular disease? Why is heart disease still the leading cause of death among Americans? What measures would you take to prevent the development of heart disease?

Answer 1

Metabolic syndrome is a collection of risk factors which intern increases the chance for heart disease and stroke.

Lack of awareness among the people to make an effort to prevent the heart disease made it as a leading cause of death.

There are mainly 4 measures to be adopted to prevent heart disease or any other metabolic syndrome these include

1. avoid alcohol
2. avoid tobacco
3. follow healthy diet
4. regular exercises

if a person were able to follow these things it will be easy to prevent heart disease. In this the first two don’t needs any explanation, but in the case of tobacco passive smoking, that is when the person is available in the near by are when the other one was smoking is equally or we can say that more dangerous and he has to prevent that also.

Healthy diet can be defined as the diet which is appropriate for his age and the work. The main things should be considered will be the use of salt and oil in the diet, it has to be restricted to 5g/day and 8ml/day respectively. Maximum avoid junk foods and try to use around 450g of vegetables and fruits per day.

Exercise is another important component for the person to prevent the illness, please make sure the regularity in the exercise. If the exercise made him to sweat then he has to do it only for 20 minutes otherwise 30 minutes at least 5 days in a week. These are the preventive measures for the person who don’t have any illness, if the person already diagnosed with illness then the exercise and the diet restriction will be based on the diagnosis.