Any concerned person in today’s society who does not want to have a life threating disease will not like the sound of cardio vascular diseases. How would you feel if one of your family members or children gets a heart disease? How would someone feel if their mother dies because she was too obese and a smoker? Losing someone really close to you is never a welcoming feeling nor preventable. As told by The American Heart Association cardiovascular diseases have been puzzling scientist for over 60 years (AHA 1). In 2009 high blood pressure caused the deaths of 6,574 black males and 6,951 black females, while coronary heart disease caused 21,051 of the deaths in black males and 19,470 in black females (AHA 1). Heart disease is also still the second leading cause of death in African American Communities. (American Heart association). In order to bring peace in the African American communities we must go to war with cardiovascular diseases. Healthy lifestyle and healthy diet are the solutions to heart diseases.
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The thing people do not know is the building blocks of the disease. It’s not like someone is going to wake up and get the disease. Heart disease begins with damage to the lining and inner layers of the coronary arteries. Several factors contribute to this damage including smoking, high blood pressure, high amounts of certain fats and cholesterol in the blood and high amounts of sugar in the blood due to insulin resistance or diabetes according to the national Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Everybody knows smoking is bad for your body. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that, Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day
The thing people do not know is the building blocks of the disease. It’s not like someone is going to wake up and get the disease. Heart disease begins with damage to the lining and inner layers of the coronary arteries. Several factors contribute to this damage including smoking, high blood pressure, high amounts of certain fats and cholesterol in the blood and high amounts of sugar in the blood due to insulin resistance or diabetes according to the national Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Everybody knows smoking is bad for your body. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that, Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day