How to Treat Hardening of the Arteries

Arteries Hardening

There is no absolute treatment for the hardening of arteries, but there are measures you can take to prevent the problem from getting worse.

Difficulty:

Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Instructions To Treat hardening Of The Arteries

1. Exercise as much and as often as you can. If you are out of shape, build up gradually until you are exercising for at least 20 minutes a day. This has a myriad of health benefits including lowering your cholesterol.

2. Eat properly. Avoid high fat foods, and get plenty of fiber and folic acid. Limit the amount of fried foods you eat to once or twice a week.

3. Control diabetes, if you have it. Sugar diabetes can also cause hardened arteries by depositing calcium in the blood vessels.

4. Treat high blood pressure. This can be done with the help of medication and lifestyle changes.

5. Stop smoking. Smoking worsens almost any health problem, and hardened arteries are no exception.

Tips & Warnings

• If you can manage to control your lifestyle habits, hardening of the arteries can be slowed. In case of severe hardening, surgery can be performed to help open the arteries again.

• Hardened arteries can lead to blocked blood vessels, heart attack or stroke. In the kidneys, hardened arteries can lead to kidney failure.

Resources

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