"Doesn't it say that eating fungus can soften blood vessels?" How can you still have a heart attack? ”
Outside the operating room, Uncle Qi's wife asked the emergency doctor in horror.
Here's how it all started.
Eight months ago, Uncle Qi's wife was diagnosed with high blood lipids, and the doctor asked her to undergo medication at that time. But Uncle Qi's wife was worried that the drug treatment would have side effects, and then it was stopped after eating for a while, and the blood lipid control was almost complete, so Uncle Qi let his wife not eat, and at the same time began to eat therapy.
Uncle Qi heard that the fungus can soften the blood vessels, so he let his wife insist on eating the fungus every day, but what he did not expect was that Uncle Qi's wife suddenly had a heart attack now, and the doctor examined that it was because the high blood lipids were not controlled, which happened at the beginning of the article.
Uncle Qi was very confused about this, didn't he say that eating fungus could play a role in softening blood vessels? Isn't it effective?
1. What is arteriosclerosis?
Before explaining whether fungus can soften blood vessels, we must first know what is vascular sclerosis.
Clinically, doctors often compare the blood vessels of the human body to water pipes, and as they age, the elderly may have different degrees of hardening of the arteries. When you are young, normal blood vessels are very elastic, so in order to make blood flow more smooth, so the inner wall of blood vessels is very soft.
But old age, the body's various functions decline, coupled with a high-oil and high-fat diet, then the blood vessels will become thicker and harder, and the inner wall of the blood vessels will also appear powder tumors, which is mainly because cholesterol and platelets are adsorbed on it. Slowly, the inner wall of the blood vessel will slowly narrow, resulting in poor blood flow, and if it continues to deteriorate, the blood vessel will be completely blocked.
Imagine if a water pipe that has been blocked and aged by grease can still be repaired as before? The same goes for blood vessels, and the answer is hard.
After explaining the hardening of the blood vessels, then whether the fungus can clean the blood vessels and treat high blood lipids is easy to explain.
Second, these 4 foods are "vascular scavengers"? Stop eating blindly, it's useless!
In fact, not only fungus, these 3 kinds of food can not clean up the blood vessel garbage.
● Wood ear fungus, it takes a lot of purification to be useful
Black fungus is a relatively healthy food, which is rich in dietary fiber, protein, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other rich elements.
It is true that there are also studies that prove that eating fungus can play a role in lowering blood sugar, blood lipids and cholesterol, but the role is the fungus polysaccharide in the fungus, which is extracted from the fungus, but it needs a large amount of fungus to be refined, and it is necessary to eat a certain amount to play a role in reducing the effect of three highs.
The highly purified polysaccharides are like intravenous antipyretic drugs, which can quickly play a role in reducing fever, but it is not realistic to treat high blood lipids just by eating fungus.
● Onions, some people eat more and more bad
In 2012, a team conducted an experimental operation on onions, researchers on the role of onions in lowering blood lipids, in rats have done research, studies have shown that sulfur compounds, flavonoid chemicals, phenylpropanol compounds and other compounds in onions do have a certain adjuvant therapeutic effect on the lowering of three highs, so this is also the reason why many people firmly believe that onions can lower blood lipids.
However, as in the case of the fungus above, animal experiments do not necessarily mean that there must be a relevant therapeutic effect in human trials, and the effect achieved by highly purified and simply eating onions is completely different.
In addition, not everyone can eat it, because onions also contain a lot of irritating substances, so patients with skin diseases and eye diseases are not suitable for eating onions, and patients with gastrointestinal diseases are not suitable for eating onions.
● Walnuts, which are beneficial but do not cure the disease:
Walnuts are known as the "king of nuts" and eat fewer a day, which is good for cardiovascular disease, but there is no current research to show that eating walnuts can treat high blood lipids.
Walnuts are very rich in nutrients, rich in fiber, but also contain unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants, and walnuts have a very low saturated fat content, which can inhibit the increase of bad cholesterol in the body, so the elderly can eat walnuts appropriately, but people who already have high blood lipids are not recommended to treat high blood lipids by eating walnuts.
● Peanuts, excessive eating is harmful:
Peanuts contain a high amount of oil and fat, although it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, but it also contains saturated fatty acids, if you eat too many peanuts, you can also provide a lot of calories and oil, causing us to become fat, no benefit to blood lipids and blood sugar.
Therefore, for middle-aged and elderly people, we do not recommend eating too much peanuts, such as fried peanuts and rice and other high fats, let alone recommended to eat.
Third, the hardening of the blood vessels, but also have to be treated in this way
Dietary therapy does not improve the problem of hardening of the arteries, so it is necessary to control the hardening of the arteries.
If you want to stay away from arteriosclerosis, you must first control the three highs, and the prevalence of three high patients is 7 times higher than that of ordinary people, so friends with three highs must control their own three high levels.
Secondly, quit smoking and eat a low-salt, low-fat diet to reduce the risk of arteriosclerosis.
Again, we should pay attention to the fact that do not take medicine indiscriminately, whether it is treatment or prevention, it needs to be carried out under the guidance of a doctor, and regular monitoring of their own blood lipid levels, and taking medicine by themselves will only endanger their health. Finally, it is necessary to conduct regular physical examinations, even if there is no arteriosclerosis or other diseases, it is necessary to conduct regular physical examinations, observe their blood pressure and blood lipids, find diseases in time, and actively treat them.
Diabetes, hypertension, high blood lipids, smoking and drinking, obesity and other factors are very easy to cause patients to have arteriosclerosis, in life we must develop good living habits to prevent the occurrence of these diseases, only fundamentally block the process of disease occurrence, we can better prevent the occurrence of diseases, to avoid harm to the body.
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