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Habits that help healing Arteriosclerosis, Atherosclerosis

Budding Winter Press Release (Draft V1)

So last two posts were all about healing arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis with some Chinese recipe of some very convenient food. The extra chapter will be some habits to heal and prevent these diseases.

1. Avoid animal fat. Even vegetarian should avoid any food that are very spicy. Of course, veggie diet would be more healthy. Over-weight patients should avoid fine rice, meat and high carbohydrates food / high sugar food. Reduce food assumption when necessary.

2. Garlic contains vitamin B that helps reduce cholesterol and prevent heart attacks. Or eat some carrots or carrot juice before sleep.

3. After and before sleep, do an exercise called "arm swing". Slightly bend your knees up and down, and swing your arms along  with the momentum of the knees movements. This will  increase the blood flow in the lower body while reduce the stiffness of the knees after exercise. Starting from 5 minutes (300 swings) and increase eventually.

4. Keep yourself calm. Because nervousness, annoyance are the seeds of heart diseases. Or if there are signs of danger like getting tired easily or breathing quickly at work. You'd better reduce the working hours. And, don't ever run upstairs.


Foods that help healing Arteriosclerosis, Atherosclerosis, Part 2

(cont'd from Part 1)

We'll continue talking about Chinese recipes for healing and prevention of arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis. We mentioned garlic and vinegar last post. This post will be onion and tea.

Onion: To treat arteriosclerosis, we can fry 200 grams of onion with 80 grams of lean pork. Here are the procedures:

1. pour a little vegetable oil into the pan and heat it to about 80% boiled;

2. pour the lean pork and fry for a while then pour the onions to fry for a while before the pork is overly cooked;

3. seasoning with sauce and salt as you like;

4. accompany the meal with steam rice.

Tea: To treat arteriosclerosis, we mix 65 grams of banana, 30 grams of honey and 20 grams of tea leaves. Procedures are as follows:

1. Peel the banana and chop it off into little pieces;

2. Mix banana with the tea leaves into a mug of boiled hot water;

3. Add honey into the mixed tea;

4. Drink one mug per day.


Foods that help healing Arteriosclerosis, Atherosclerosis, Part 1

Atherosclerosis is the most common type of Arteriosclerosis. That means the wall of arteries gets thicker and lose the elasticity. Cholesterol and other fatty ingredients accumulate at the wall of arteries and narrow down the blood flow. Without efficient blood flow, the issues of the arteries wall become hardened and "crispy", which is easy to break down. After middle age it's easier to get atherosclerosis.

Healing atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis usually is to adjust the metabolism of fat and the function of Appropriate exercises, reduce the assumption of animal fat and quit smoking are important prevention of arteriosclerosis. There are many Chinese recipes for healing and prevention of arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis. The easier ones include onions, garlic, tea and vinegar.

This post I'll just talk about garlic and vinegar first because they're pretty straight forward.

Garlic: To treat atherosclerosis, eat RAW garlic more than 6 grams per day for a long period of time. Consistency is the key.

Vinegar: To treat arteriosclerosis, immerse 150 peanuts (without shell) into 300 grams of vinegar for 7 days. Then eat 15 every morning with an empty stomach for about one and half month.

(to be cont'd)