Relationship Between Emotions And Heart Disease

There is a relationship between emotions and heart disease. As evident, emotions play a tremendous role in preventing, reducing or triggering illnesses. Although, emotions are connected to heart disease, many other things contribute to the risk of heart disease as well. High-fat diets, limited exercise, elevated stress levels, obesity, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, social factors, and environmental factors contribute to a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease. I want to expand on a few things. Firstly, I wanted to discuss the connection between emotions and heart disease. Secondly, I want to explain what “diabesity” is and interventions for “diabesity”. Lastly, I want to give my insight on how the marketing …show more content…
Medicines merely treat symptoms, but they do not always prevent illnesses. If a patient was taking a cholesterol medication and stopped taking the medicine after their cholesterol levels dropped back into the normal range, the chance of cholesterol steadily rising back up to excessive levels is extremely high, if the patient did not combine a strict diet and a reasonable amount of exercise while using the medication. Medicinal advancements are incredible and very useful. I fully support the use of medicine when necessary, but there are times when lifestyle changes should be used instead of medications. Often, lifestyle changes alone can be more beneficial than medicine itself. There are times when medication is the only option available to assist patients. For instance, if a patient is bedridden and cannot physically get up to walk or exercise, medication is an amazingly wonderful option that really helps keep control of the situation, but a nutritionally healthy diet is still available to bedridden patients, whether they are able to intake whole foods, nutritional shakes, such as ensure, or have to be fed through a feeding tube. Unfortunately, doctors are usually overwhelmed with their cases loads and are always hurried from one patient to the next, so a lot of times, patient do not get the full description on what to do to prevent or reduce illnesses or if they do, sometimes individual’s lack the willpower to follow through with the suggestions. In some cases, I feel like a rushed doctor will just prescribe a medication so he does not have to sit and lecture a patient about how to deal with some issues that are easily treatable with medicine and just tell the patient to stop back in a few