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Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure

Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure. Feel free to use and share, but please credit: Christopher Chung; B.S. Nutritional Physiology & Metabolism, University of California Berkeley For any inquiries or to request updated versions, contact chrisLchung@gmail.com. LDL. LDL. LDL. H DL.

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Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure

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  1. Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure Feel free to use and share, but please credit: Christopher Chung; B.S. Nutritional Physiology & Metabolism, University of California Berkeley For any inquiries or to request updated versions, contact chrisLchung@gmail.com

  2. LDL LDL LDL HDL HDL HDL Liver

  3. How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time? • How does having high cholesterol speed up this process?

  4. Damage! I must help! LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL

  5. These LDLs must be the invaders that are causing the inflammation! LDL LDL LDL

  6. LDL LDL LDL

  7. LDL LDL LDL

  8. More damage! LDL LDL LDL

  9. LDL LDL LDL

  10. LDL LDL LDL

  11. More damage! LDL LDL LDL

  12. LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL

  13. LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL LDL

  14. How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time? • How does having high cholesterol speed up this process?

  15. How can high blood pressure cause a stroke over time? Damage to blood vessels Macrophages come to “help” Macrophages get sick on LDLs and get stuck in blood vessel walls (plaque) The plaque gets large After many months or years, the plaque can come loose and block blood vessels (stroke)

  16. How does high cholesterol speed up this process? LDLs deliver more cholesterol to artery walls More LDLs in the blood = fatter, sicker macrophages to form plaques LDL

  17. LDL Blocked blood flow to brain, lungs, or heart

  18. Eat half as much salt as you are used to. 1

  19. Lose five pounds and keep them off. 2

  20. Take your medicine every day. 3

  21. LESS ANIMALS (IN GENERAL) MORE PLANTS (IN GENERAL) 4

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