Look out! Ambush Diet Trigger Stroke and Diabetes

Keeping a diet long-term health investments. Irregularity diet be the entrance of various diseases. The list of diseases that most commonly affects the obesity or excess fat triglycerides, stroke, diabetes and heart disease.

Doctors and nutrition experts at the Jakarta Islamic Hospital Coffee Cottage Khomimah SpPD dr said, if high cholesterol can lead to atherosclerosis, which is the process of calcification and hardening of the walls of blood vessels, especially in the heart, brain, kidneys, and eyes

Could lead to coronary heart disease and stroke,'' he said at the seminar lay Triglycerides Fat, Diet, Cardiovascular Disease, in Jakarta Islamic Hospital Coffee Cottage, Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, Saturday (2/3) morning.

According Khomimah, diabetes and heart disease caused by genetic and environmental factors. Genetic factors, parents have the disease. Then the environmental factors that the wrong diet. However, the influence of genetic factors affect up to 80 percent while the rest of the new environmental factors.

Atherosclerosis due process, he said, the coronary arteries or blood vessels in the heart become narrow which can cause heart disease and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the world's number one killer today.

People who are obese or overweight and smoking risk of these diseases. Disease, continued Khomimah, not directly attack immediately, but slowly but deadly.